§ 6.24.010. Definitions.

For the purpose of these regulations, and unless defined in other sections of these regulations, the following terms, phrases and words shall have the following meanings:

A.

"City-county" means the local government of the city and county of Butte-Silver Bow, Montana and includes all of that area within its geographical borders.

B.

"Department" means the Butte-Silver Bow city-county health department.

C.

"Director" means the Butte-Silver Bow city-county health department director or his authorized representative.

D.

"Dwelling" means any building or structure or part thereof that is intended or used for human habitation, but not including a garage, carport, porch or other nonhabitable parts of a dwelling.

E.

"Nuisance" means unlawfully doing any act which is injurious to health, indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, as set out in Section 27-30-101, MCA.

F.

"Owner" means any person who alone or jointly or severally with others:

1.

Has legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or

2.

Has charge, care or control of premises, dwelling or dwelling unit, as legal or equitable owner, agent of the owner, lessee, or is a personal administrator, trustee or guardian of the estate of the owner.

G.

"Person" means any individual, public or private corporation and its officers, partnership, association, firm, trustee, personal representative of an estate, the state or its departments, institution, bureau, agency, city-county, political subdivision or any legal entity recognized by law.

H.

"Pigeon" means any bird belonging to the family Columbidae, except those members of the family Columbidae whose taking or keeping is subject to regulation by the United States Government or the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

I.

"Pigeon loft" means any structure, building or facility used to keep, house, raise, breed, care or maintain pigeons.

J.

"Wild pigeon" means any pigeon that is not banded with a number-bearing pigeon band or not housed in a pigeon loft.

K.

"Wild bird" means:

1.

Starling, Sturnus vulgaris;

2.

English sparrow, Passer domesticus; or

3.

Any other bird not owned by a person and confined.

(Ord. 386 1 (part), 1990)