A. “Abatement costs and administrative expenses” include, but are not limited to, the actual expenses and costs of the town in preparing notices, specifications and contracts; in conducting inspections; for legal fees; and for other related costs incurred in enforcing the provisions of this chapter, as well as reasonable costs to abate a nuisance.

B. “Attractive nuisance” means any condition, instrumentality or machine that is unsafe and unprotected and thereby dangerous to children by reason of their inability to appreciate the peril therein, and that may reasonably be expected to attract children to the premises and risk injury by playing with, in or on it;

C. “Nuisance abatement team” means the person(s) designated by the city manager to enforce this chapter.

D. “Commercial vehicle” means a vehicle of a type required to be registered under the California State Vehicle Code used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit or designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. Passenger vehicles that are not used for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit, house cars, vanpools, and other vehicles exempt by the California State Vehicle Code are not considered commercial vehicles for purposes of this chapter.

E. “Compost” means the product resulting from controlled biological decomposition of organic waste that is source separated from the municipal solid waste stream and which does not produce objectionable odors, insect problems or fire hazards and meets all other applicable municipal and state codes relating to compost.

F. “Landowner” means the person to whom land is assessed, as shown on the last equalized assessment roll of the county.

G. “Nuisance” means anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or unlawfully obstructs the use in the customary manner of any public park, street or highway.

H. “Parkway” means that portion of a street right-of-way that lies between the property line and the outside edge of a gutter or gutter lip, including a driveway approach. Where no curb exists, “parkway” means the area of property from the property line to the edge of the pavement. “Parkway” also means any unimproved street right-of-way on the opposite side of an abutting street where the street was created to provide access to the abutting property.

I. “Private nuisance” means all nuisances not included in the definition of a public nuisance.

J. “Property” means any lot or parcel of land. For the purposes of this definition, “lot or parcel of land” means and includes any alley, sidewalk, parkway or unimproved public easement abutting such lot or parcel of land.

K. “Public nuisance” means a nuisance which affects at the same time an entire community, neighborhood or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal. (Ord. 490 § 18 (part), 1996)