Port Coquitlam : Règlement no 4190, art. 3.1 — In this Bylaw

In this Bylaw:

• “Building Materials ” means items used in the construction of structures or in landscaping, including, but not limited to lumber, gypsum board, windows, doors, roofing materials, scaffolding, equipment, tools, bricks, building blocks, fill, sand, and soil; “Building Inspector” means any building inspector or official including Chief Building Inspector and Manager of Building; “Bylaw Enforcement Officer ” means every person employed by the City for the purpose of enforcement of the City's bylaws and includes members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; “Bylaw Services Manager” means the person appointed as Bylaw Services Manager or their designate; “Council” means the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the City of Port Coquitlam; “Derelict” means
• a) physically wrecked or dilapidated; City of Port Coquitlam | Property Standards and Nuisance Abatement Bylaw, 2020, No. 4190 Page 1 of 9
• b) in the case of a Motor Vehicle, incapable of operating under its own power or lacking number plates for the current year pursuant to the regulations under the Motor Vehicle Act, RSBC 1996, c. 318; and
• c) in the case of a trailer, incapable of being towed in the manner a trailer is normally towed. “Discarded Materials ” include all materials not in use for the construction or maintenance of a building situated on that property, appliances, Motor Vehicle parts, machinery, firewood (unless it is neatly piled or stacked against a wall or fence), and any other chattels in a dismantled state or not in use for the purpose for which the manufacturer intended; “Fire Inspector” means any Fire Prevention Officer including Fire Prevention Inspectors, Fire Prevention Captains or Deputy Fire Chief, Fire Protective Services & Public Education; “Graffiti ” includes one or more letters, symbols, writing, pictures or marks, however made, posted, scratched, etched, painted or drawn on any structure or thing but does not include any of the following:
• a) a sign, public notice or traffic control devices authorized by the Director of Engineering appointed by Council of the City of Port Coquitlam;
• b) a sign authorized by the Sign Bylaw, No. 2638 as amended or replaced from time to time;
• c) a public notice authorized by a City bylaw or by provincial or federal legislation; or
• d) a letter, symbol or mark on a building or structure for which the owner or tenant of the building or structure has given prior, written authorization, such as a mural; “Public Place ” includes every street, road, land, boulevard, sidewalk, lane, bridge, viaduct and any other way open to public use and any park, building, conveyance, private place or passageway to which the public has, or is permitted to have access or is invited; “Motor Vehicle” means a device in, upon, or by which a person or thing is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except a device designed to be moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; “Noxious Weed ” means any weed designated by regulation to be a Noxious Weed pursuant to the British Columbia Weed Control Act RSBC 1996 Chapter 487; “Nuisance Abatement Fees” means the fees, charges and amounts stated in the City's Fees and Charges Bylaw No. 3892; “Nuisance at Law” means t he essence of the tort of nuisance is interference with the enjoyment of land. “Nuisance Service Call” means a response by a bylaw enforcement officer, building inspector member of the fire department or member of the RCMP to, or abatement of, any activity, conduct or condition occurring on or near real property that is contrary to a provision within sections 4, 5, 6 or 7 of this Bylaw; City of Port Coquitlam | Property Standards and Nuisance Abatement Bylaw, 2020, No. 4190 Page 2 of 9 “Rubbish ” means solid and semi-solid wastes, dead animals, feces, paper, trash, refuse, cardboard, waste material, demolition material, cans, bottles, yard clippings, wood, rubber, plastics, glass, bedding, mattresses, crates, pallets, rags, barrels, boxes, scrap iron and other metal, scrap paving material, broken flower pots, discarded tanks of fuel and propane, dilapidated motor vehicles, discarded household appliances, and discarded furniture.