Cambridge : Règlement no 26-022, art. 1.1(a) — Lot Maintenance By-law

a sign, public notice or traffic control mark authorized by the City;

• (b) a sign authorized pursuant to a permit issued under the City ’s Sign By-law;
• (c) a sign, public notice, or traffic control mark authorized by Regional, Provincial or Federal law; or
• (d) an Art Mural. “Highway ” means a common and public highway, common and public walkway, street, road, avenue, parkway, square, place, bridge, viaduct, trestle, or any other way open to public use, and includes the area between the lateral property lines thereof; “Inoperative Motor Vehicle ” means a Motor Vehicle or Commercial Motor Vehicle that is: in disrepair; is missing body work, components or parts, including tires; contains damaged components, parts, bodywork, or glass; has deteriorated or missing adjuncts; is unlicensed; or one which, if operated on a public Highway, would otherwise fail to meet the requirements of the Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, as amended; The Corporation of the City of Cambridge By-law Number 26-022 “Motor Vehicle ” means an automobile, motorcycle, motor-assisted bicycle, or any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power as identified in the Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, as amended; “Naturalized Area ” means an area or areas on private property deliberately implemented to produce ground cover, including wildflowers, shrubs, annuals, perennials, grasses, or a combination thereof, that has a Buffer Strip and that is monitored and maintained by a Person; “Officer ” shall mean a Municipal By-law Compliance Officer of the City and a Police Officer with the Waterloo Regional Police Service; “Owner ” means
• (a) a Person who is the lawful Owner of real Property or land, or a mortgagee in possession of real Property or land and the Person for the time being who is managing or receiving rent from a tenant on the Property; or
• (b) in regard to a donation collection box, the operator of the donation collection box; “Person ” includes an Owner, occupant, individual, association, firm, corporation (with the exception of The Corporation of the City of Cambridge), partnership, bureau, sole proprietorship, trust, organization, trustee or agent; “Property ” means a building or structure, or part of a building or structure, and includes the associated lands and premises, and all mobile structures, outbuildings, fences and retaining walls, and erections thereon, whether heretofore or hereafter erected and includes vacant Property; “ Region ” means the Regional Municipality of Waterloo; “Sidewalk ” means that portion of the Highway that is intended for the use of pedestrians and which surface is finished with concrete or asphalt; “Stagnant water" means water that is not continuously filtered and may be polluted, rancid, toxic or odorous. It can accumulate on the ground or within objects or debris, including but not limited to Refuse, depressions, or buckets. This does not include water that is in a covered rain barrel, a maintained birdbath or in a swimming pool, hot tub, wading pool or artificial pond that complies with this by-law; “Turf Grass ” means a perennial strand of plant that can form turf and withstand mowing, traffic and/or wear; The Corporation of the City of Cambridge By-law Number 26-022 “Vertical Clearance" means an unobstructed vertical passage space required along a Highway or a Sidewalk within a Highway; “Refuse ” means any garbage, waste, salvage, debris, litter, broken or discarded materials, and includes, but is not limited to:
• (i) Bottles, cans, cartons, clothing, discarded toys, packing materials, paper;
• (ii) Broken or discarded material;
• (iii) Piping, ducting, tubing, conduits, cable, wire and fittings or related accessories;
• (iv) Appliances or parts of appliances;
• (v) Human or animal feces;
• (vi) Shopping carts;
• (vii) Automotive parts, vehicle parts or accessories, mechanical equipment, mechanical parts, unmounted tires, and tires mounted on rims;
• (viii) Any Inoperative Motor Vehicle and electric vehicle, and any trailer, utility trailer, truck trailer, house trailer, or recreational equipment that is wrecked, discarded, dismantled, unplated or in an inoperative condition;
• (ix) Furnaces, furnace parts, pipes, fittings to pipes, and water or fuel tanks that are not in use;
• (x) Kitchen or table waste of animal or vegetable origin;
• (xi) Yard waste including grass clippings, tree and garden cuttings, brush or leaves;
• (xii) Broken concrete, broken asphalt, patio or Sidewalk slabs, bricks, interlocking bricks, unused building materials, and pallets;
• (xiii) Indoor furniture; and
• (xiv) Wrecked, dismantled, abandoned or inoperable machinery, or parts thereof; The Corporation of the City of Cambridge By-law Number 26-022 “Zoning By-law" means The City of Cambridge Zoning By-law 150-85 as amended, or any by-law that replaces it.