Waterloo : Règlement no 2013-017, art. 1.1 — For the purpose of this by-law, the following terms shall have the corresponding meanings set out below

For the purpose of this by-law, the following terms shall have the corresponding meanings set out below:

• "Boundary Fence" means a Fence located or partially located within 0.9 metres (3 feet) of a property line; " Building Code Act" means the Building Code Act, 1992, S.O. 1992, c. 23, as amended (the "Building Code Act"); "Building Code" means Ontario Regulation 350/06 of the Building Code Act, as amended; "Building Inspectors" mean inspectors for the City appointed under section 3 of the Building Code Act; "Chief Building Official'' means a chief building official appointed under section 3 and 4 of the Building Code Act, as amended, or his or her designate; "City" means The Corporation of the City of Waterloo; "Committee" means the Fence Variance Committee; "Corner Lot" means a lot situated at the intersection of two or more Highways or at the intersection of two parts of the same Highway meeting at an angle of not more than 135 degrees; "Director" means the Director of By-law Enforcement or his or her designate(s); "Erect a Fence" includes altering, constructing, or relocating a Fence, the replacement of more than 50% of the length or any Section of a Fence, and the causing or permitting the erection of a Fence; "Fees and Charges By-law" means the City's current Fees and Charges By-law, currently being By-law #2012-061, as amended or replaced from time to time; "Fence" means a protective, enclosing, or visual barrier of posts, wire, boards, rails, pickets, pilings, wood, metal, fiberglass, plastics, masonry, or similar materials or any combination thereof, and includes a wall or partition that is not an integral part of a building, but does not include a trellis or arbour; "Hedge" means a continuous line of shrubs or other plant material; "Horizontal Top Rail" means a board that is placed on top of the fence to which fence boards are attached; "Highway" includes a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle, and part of which is intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles and includes the area between the property lines thereof; "Lawful Fence" means any Fence complying with the regulations prescribed in this by-law, regardless of the date erected, except where otherwise permitted in this by-law; "Municipal Law Enforcement Officer" means an individual appointed by the Council of the City pursuant to s. 15 of the Police Services Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P. 15, as amended; "Open Construction" means construction of a Fence that has an open vertical surface space, enabling a clear view through such Fence. "Owner" means the owner, tenant, lessee or other person in care and control of the property on which the Fence is located; "Person" means an individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association or organization, including a charitable organization; "Privacy Screen" means a Fence as described in section 6 of this by-law; "Section of a Fence" means the portion of a Fence along a single line or boundary; "Visibility Triangle" means the area within a triangle formed by measuring a prescribed distance along two specified intersecting lines and a third line joining the terminal points of the two measured lines; "Yard" means any open, uncovered, unoccupied, space appurtenant to a building and: