§ 40A-2. Definitions.  


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  • For the purpose of this ordinance, the terms used herein are defined as follows:
    ABANDON
    Leaving, discarding, dumping, throwing or placing of personal property in public places.
    MOTOR VEHICLE
    Every vehicle operated or driven upon a public highway which is propelled by any power other than muscular power, except:
    A. 
    Electrically driven invalid chairs being operated or driven by an invalid.
    B. 
    Vehicles which run only upon rails or tracks.
    C. 
    Snowmobiles.
    PERSON
    A natural person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or agent or representative thereof.
    PERSONAL PROPERTY
    Any article of personal property, including vehicles or parts thereof, wagons, shopping baskets, carts, trailers, boxes, barrels, cartons, bales or other movable objects of any description whatsoever.
    POSSESSION
    Ownership, use, physical custody or control of personal property notwithstanding the duration of the physical use, custody or control.
    PUBLIC PLACE
    Any street, road, avenue, right-of-way, thoroughfare, off-street parking area, parking field, commercial parking lot, municipal parking facility, park, parking space or sidewalk and all other spaces or places available to or used by the general public.
    TOWN
    Unincorporated areas of the Town of North Hempstead outside village boundary lines.
Added 6-12-1984 by L.L. No. 5-1984