A. “Abandoned vehicle” means any vehicle which reasonably appeared to be inoperative, wrecked, discarded, abandoned, or totally or partially dismantled.

B. “Manager” means the City Manager of the City of Wood Village or the Manager's designee.

C. “Costs of abatement” means the total expenses incurred by the City to abate the violation(s) to include but are not limited to the following: the costs for any and all contractors, materials, disposal costs, and staff time to abate a violation; title search charges; court or hearing costs; lien recording and release fees; and administrative overhead charges related to the abatement.

D. “Council” means the City Council of the City of Wood Village.

E. “Garbage” means all animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of food.

F. “Liquid waste” means waste oil, septic tank pumping, liquid industrial wastes, or other similar material.

G. “Nuisance” means any annoying, unpleasant, or obnoxious condition or practice causing or capable of causing an unreasonable threat to the public health, safety, and welfare in the circumstances, but does not include noise. Anything defined as a nuisance in Section 8.16.200 shall be a nuisance.

H. “Owner” the current owner of real property as shown in the property records of Multnomah County, Oregon.

I. “Person” means any natural person, or any partnership, corporation, company, trust or other legal entity.

J. “Property Management Company” means any person that manages real property on behalf of the owner.

K. “Rodent” means a mouse or rat.

L. “Rubbish” means glass, metal, paper, wood, plastics, or other non-putrescible solid waste.

M. “Sewage sludge” means residual waste of sewage treatment plants, consisting of digested organic waste and indigestible solids.

N. "Sheriff" means the Multnomah County Sheriff's office or such other law enforcement agency that provides police services to the City via an intergovernmental agreement or otherwise pursuant to the authority of the City Council.

O. “Sidewalk” means that portion of a public right of way, other than the roadway, set apart by curbs, barriers, markings, or other delineation for pedestrian travel.

P. “Solid waste” means all putrescible and nonputrescible wastes, whether in solid or liquid form, except wastes produced by the human body, liquid-carried industrial waste or sewage, or sewage hauled as an incidental part of septic tank or cesspool cleaning service, and includes garbage, rubbish, ashes, fill dirt, sewage sludge, street refuse, industrial wastes, swill, demolition and used construction materials, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, discarded home or industrial appliances, manure, vegetable or animal solids and semisolid waste, dead animals, and other discarded solid materials.

Q. “Tenant” means any person who controls or possesses real property under a lease, a month-to-month tenancy, by permission by the owner, or otherwise.

R. “Vector” means any insect organism, including but not limited to flies, fleas, lice, ticks, fly maggots, and mosquito larvae, capable of bearing or carrying a disease transmittable to human beings.

S. “Vehicle” means any device which is designed or used for transporting people, goods, or property upon a public street or roadway, including but not limited to a body, engine, transmission, frame, or other major parts, motorized or non-motorized items such as trailers and boats, but does not include a device propelled by human power, such as a bicycle, or a device operated exclusively upon fixed rails or tracks. (Ord. 9-2009, 2009.)