Definitions for the weed and trash law

(For purposes of this chapter, unless it is plainly evident from the context that a different meaning is intended, certain words and phrases used in this chapter are defined as follows:) In this chapter, unless a different meaning plainly is required, the following definitions apply: "Automobile graveyard" means any establishment or place of business which is maintained, used, or operated, for storing, keeping, buying, or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, dismantled or inoperable motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts. "Corporation counsel" means the person who holds the office of corporation counsel of the county. "County" means the county of Maui. "County roadway" means any road, alley, street or lane owned or controlled by the county. "Cut" means to clear, trim, shape, separate, divide, sever, shorten, reduce, curtail, slash, or to otherwise control and dispose of weeds on property. "Director" means the director of public works of the county. "Director of finance" means the director of finance of the county. "Owner" means the fee simple owner of property or any other person who has control or possession of real property. "Person" means an individual, corporation, government agency, trust, partnership, association or any other legal entity. "Remove" means to move, displace, shift, take away, haul or otherwise transfer weeds, trash and waste from property. "Storage area" means an area where trash is stored, kept, held or placed. "Trash" means rubbish such as ashes, tin cans, paper, rags, boxes, glass, paper products and any similar item. "Unsanitary condition" means the failure to maintain property, buildings and structures free from vermin, rodents, breeding mosquitoes, standing water, and accumulating hazardous waste, trash or weeds. "Vacant" means unimproved and unoccupied. "Waste" means any object, substance or thing, of whatever kind of character, which, for any reason, may be or may have been thrown away, discarded or abandoned, and including, but not limited to: 1. Refrigerators, ranges, furniture, fixtures and other similar household items; 2. Vehicles, machinery, farm equipment, construction equipment, scrap iron of all kinds, any portion of those items or any other similar item; 3. Debris from demolished structures or buildings; 4. Bulky wastes discharged by mercantile, industrial and other establishments; and 5. All garbage and trash other than defined in this section. "Weeds" means vegetation of such nature, which has reached such growth, and is present in such quantity, that it constitutes a substantial risk of one or more of the following hazards: 1. The vegetation, when dry, is or will be a fire hazard. 2. The vegetation is, or is naturally suited as a sheltering or breeding place for rats, mice, mosquitoes or other vermin or noxious insects. 3. The vegetation overgrows or spreads upon or over any road, alley, path, or sidewalk owned or open to the public to such extent as to obstruct, impede or interfere with the safe or convenient use or maintenance thereof. 4. The vegetation has grown or spread, or has fallen or may fall into privately owned or controlled stream, ditch, sewer, canal or other waterway and obstruct or narrow the channel thereof or impede the flow of water therein. (Ord. 1876 § 2 (part), 1990)