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For the purposes of TMC 12.35.010 through 12.35.070, unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply:

“Bear Creek Greenway Corridor (Greenway)” means that publicly owned 20-mile corridor of parks, trails, and adjacent land and waters that is located running north and south and includes sections of Bear Creek between North Mountain Avenue in the city of Ashland to Seven Oaks Interchange in the city of Central Point.

“Bicycle” has the meaning given that term in ORS 801.150.

“Camp” means to set up, occupy, or to remain in or at a campsite for more than two hours at any one time or more than four hours in any 24-hour calendar day.

“Campsite” means any place where any bedding, sleeping bag or other material used for bedding purposes, or any stove or fire, is placed, established or maintained for the purpose of maintaining a temporary place to live, whether or not such place incorporates the use of any tent, box, lean-to, shack or any other structure, or any vehicle or part thereof.

“Destructive device” means any device with an explosive, incendiary or poison gas component, including but not limited to a bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce, mine, or any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting any device into any destructive device described in this paragraph and from which a destructive device may be readily assembled.

“Dwell” means to regularly or intermittently remain for such a period of time at or near a particular location, premises or area for more than two hours at any one time or more than four hours in any calendar day.

“Firearm” has the meaning given that term in ORS 166.210.

“Fireworks” has the meaning given that term in ORS 480.110.

“Greenway authority” means a unit of local government, its designees, or its employees, who have lawful control of regulating use of the Greenway by nature of jurisdiction, ownership, tenancy, or official position.

“Horse,” in addition to its ordinary meaning, includes mules, donkeys and other rideable animals.

“Keeper” means a person who owns, possesses, controls or otherwise has charge of a companion animal, as that term is defined in ORS 164.055(2)(a).

“Livestock” means equines, cattle, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas and swine.

“Occupy” or “occupancy” means the purpose for which a premises or structure, or parts thereof, is used or intended to be used. The definition of “occupy” is not limited to human or animal inhabitation and can include the improvement, development, or placement of a structure or building on a premises, or any condition thereof.

“Open to the public” means premises that, by their physical nature, function, custom, usage, notice or lack of notice, or other circumstances at the time, would cause a reasonable person to believe that no permission to enter or remain is required.

“Possess” has the meaning given that term in ORS 161.015.

“Premises” includes any real property, facility, structure, shelter or building whether privately or publicly owned.

“Skate” or “skating” means roller skating, skate boarding or roller blading, or otherwise the use or application of a similar contrivance propelled exclusively by human power.

“Weapon” means any instrument, article or substance specifically designed for and presently capable of causing death or serious physical injury. A weapon includes any knife having a blade that projects or swings into position by force of a spring or by centrifugal force and commonly known as a switchblade knife, any dirk, dagger, ice pick, slingshot, metal knuckles, or any similar instrument by the use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person or property of any other person. A “deadly weapon” has the meaning given that term in ORS 161.015(2). [Ord. 907 § 2, 2016.]