§ 7.16.010. Definitions.

For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and phrases are defined and certain provisions shall be construed as set out in this section unless it is apparent from their context that they have a different meaning:

A.

"Apartment" is a room or suite of rooms which is occupied or intended or designed to be occupied by one family or person for living and/or sleeping purposes in a house court.

B.

"Camp car and/or trailer" is any vehicle used for cooking, living, or sleeping purposes and which is designed or equipped for the purpose of being transported from place to place, whether by motive power or other means.

C.

"Family" is one person living alone or a group of two or more persons, whether related to each other or not, living together in a tent, shelter, camp car, trailer or apartment.

D.

"Health officer" is the county health officer of the county of Madera and his duly authorized representatives and deputies.

E.

"House court" is any building or structure containing more than two apartments or any group of two or more separate buildings or structures containing one or more apartments, each located on a parcel of land or contiguous parcel or parcels of land under the ownership or operation of one person, which building or structure or any portion thereof is designed, built, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or which is occupied, as the home or residence or living quarters of two or more families or persons living independently of each other.

F.

"Person" means a corporation, copartnership or association as well as a natural person.

G.

"Squatter camp" is an area of land upon which any person has settled or located or which he occupies without having a bona fide claim or color of title thereto, or without the expressed consent of the owner or person legally in charge thereof. It includes any tent camp space, house court, and every other kind of camp, tent, shelter, or structure, or collection of tents, shelters or structures of any kind, established, constructed, maintained, operated, or inhabited in violation of this chapter.

H.

"Tent camp space" is any place:

1.

Where one or more tents or camp cars or trailers are erected or maintained for hire or used or intended or designed to be used as cooking, living or sleeping quarters for one or more families or persons; or

2.

Where space is rented for the placing of one or more such tents, shelters, camp cars or trailers; or

3.

Where free camping is permitted with or without tents, shelters, camp cars or trailers; or

4.

Where one or more tents, shelters, camp cars, or trailers are established for cooking, living or sleeping purposes.

(Ord. 176 § 1, 1939).