§ 12.28.020. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

A.

"Natural vegetation" means the native plants, grasses, shrubs and trees and roots thereof having the characteristic of intercepting, holding and more slowly releasing rainfall than bare earth surfaces.

B.

"Parcel" or "land" means a contiguous quantity of land, in the possession of or owned by, or recorded as the property of the same claimant or person.

C.

"Person" means any individual, firm, copartnership, joint adventure, association, social club, fraternal organization, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular number.

D.

"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.

E.

"Sloping terrain" means any ground surface having a grade of eight percent or more. The latest available six and seven and one-half minute United States Geological Survey quadrangles or a survey by a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor shall be utilized to determine such grade.

(Ord. 9106 §§ 2-6, 1966.)