For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings set out in this section:

A. "Agency" means the police department, which is designated to enforce the community decay ordinance.

B. "Community decay" means a public nuisance which is within "public view" as defined in this section and is created by allowing rubble, debris, junk or refuse to accumulate resulting in conditions that are injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the sense or obstructive of the free use of property as to to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. "Community decay" includes all conditions set forth in the community decay standards attached to this chapter as Exhibit A set out in Section 8.18.050. "Community decay" as used in this chapter may not be construed or defined to apply to normal farming, ranching or other agricultural facility, or any appurtenance thereof, during the course of its normal operation.

C. "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, company, association, corporation, city, town or any other entity whether organized for profit or not.

D. "Public nuisance" means a nuisance which affects, at the same time, an entire community or neighborhood or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal.

E. "Public view" is any point six feet above the surface of the center of any public road from which the community decay can be seen.

F. "Shielding" refers to fencing or other manmade barriers to conceal a facility from public view. It also refers to natural barriers. Any shielding must conform to the shielding standards attached to this chapter as Exhibit B, set out in Section 8.18.060. Any shielding must also conform to all local zoning, planning, building and protective covenant provisions. Any shielding is to be of sufficient height that none of the violation on the premises is visible to public view. This is not intended to require that permanent buildings, other structures, utility poles or any farm buildings, ranch buildings, or other agricultural facilities or appurtenances are to be included in the chapter and shielded. (Ord. 513 § 1, 1988)