Courtenay By-law 2804, s. 1(a) — Prevention of Public Nuisances Bylaw

Authorized Person” includes the following:

• (i) a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police;
• (ii) a Bylaw Enforcement Officer;
• (iii) the Director of Corporate Services and their duly authorized representatives (BYLAW 3079);
• (iv) any other peace officer.
• (b) “Boulevard” means the area between the curb lines, the lateral lines or the shoulder of a roadway and the adjacent property line.
• (c) “City” means the City of Courtenay.
• (d) “Continuous Noise” means any noise continuing for a period of five minutes or more in any fifteen minute period.
• (e) “Graffiti” means drawing, printing or writing scratched, sprayed, painted or scribbled on a wall or other surface, but does not include a sign for which a permit has been issued by the municipality.
• (f) “Independent Sound Consultant” means a professional engineer, licenced to practice in the Province of British Columbia, with acoustical expertise.
• (g) “Intersection” means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of the 2 highways which join one another at or approximately at right angles, or the area within which vehicles travelling on different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict, and, for the purpose of this definition “highway does not include a lane or way less than 5 metres in width separating the rear property lines of parcels of land fronting on highways running more or less parallel to and on each side of the lane or way.
• (h) “Noise” includes any loud outcry, clamour, shouting, disturbance or movement or any sound that is loud or harsh or undesirable.
• (i) “Noxious Weeds” includes the plant lythrum salicaria (Purple Loosestrife) as well as weeds designated as noxious pursuant to the Weed Control Act.
• (j) “Person” includes any corporation, partnership or party and the personal or other legal representatives of a person, to whom the context can apply according to the law and also includes an owner, the agent of an owner, or the occupier of, or the holder of a purchaser’s interest in an Agreement for Sale, of any real or personal property within the City.
• (k) “Real Property” means land, with or without improvements so affixed to the land as to make them in fact and law a part of it.
• (l) “Roadworthy” means, when applied to motor vehicles, capable of normal physical operation.
• (m) “Sidewalk” means the area between the curb lines or lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines improved for use of pedestrians.
• (n) “Unsightly” includes dirt, gravel, bark mulch or refuse and all discarded, broken or useless items and without restricting the generality of the foregoing, includes old paper or wood products no longer in use or motor vehicles that are no longer roadworthy or parts thereof, and:
• (i) The storage of building materials on a site where the owner or occupier of the property is not in possession of a valid City building permit.
• (ii) The storage, cleaning, repairing or servicing of motor vehicles, hauling or construction equipment except where the same is carried out entirely within

a building.

• (iii) Accumulation on residential property of any goods or merchandise which is offered or intended to be offered for sale.