For the purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings respectively ascribed within this section.

    "Enforcement officer" means the fire chief and shall include any official or officials in such department duly appointed by the fire chief or city council to administer the provisions of this chapter. For the purposes of the provisions of this chapter dealing with removal and destruction of weeds and waste, "enforcement officer" shall include any person who, pursuant to contract with the city, is authorized to abate nuisances.

    "Fire hazard" means any condition which increases or may cause an increase in the degree of danger from fire over that which is customarily recognized as normal by persons in the public service of preventing or extinguishing fire. It shall also mean any condition or any act which may obstruct, delay or hinder, or may become the cause of an obstruction, delay or hindrance to the prevention, suppression or extinguishment of fire.

    "Nuisance" means any condition or use of premises or of building exterior which is detrimental to the property of others or which poses an immediate or potential health, safety or fire hazard. This includes, but is not limited to, the keeping of, or depositing on, or the scattering over the premises of the following:

    1.    Weeds, grass, dead trees, lumber;

    2.    Rubbish, refuse, junk, trash, debris, garbage;

    3.    Waste material;

    4.    Abandoned, discarded or unused objects or equipment, such as furniture, stoves, refrigerators, freezers, cans or containers.

    "Owner" means the owner, agent of the owner, lessee, and/or occupant or person in possession of any lot, parcel, tract or piece of land.

    "Tax collector" shall mean the person collecting property taxes levied on real property for the city.

    "Weeds" as used in this chapter means all weeds growing upon streets, alleys, sidewalks or private property in the city and includes any of the following:

    1.    Weeds which bear or may bear seeds of a downy or wingy nature;

    2.    Sagebrush, chaparral, blackberries, weeds, indigenous grasses or any other brush which may attain large growth as to become a fire hazard as determined by the enforcement officer;  

    3.    Weeds which are otherwise noxious or dangerous;  

    4.    Poison oak and poison ivy when the conditions of growth are such as to constitute a menace to the public health;  

    5.    Accumulation of dry grass, stubble, brush, litter, garden refuse, cuttings, and other combustible trash which endangers the public safety by creating a fire hazard. (Prior code § 24-1)