§ 10-77. Definitions.

When used in this chapter, the following words and phrases are defined as follows, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:

a.

"County highway" means any road included within the maintained County highway system, as provided in section 2121 of the Streets and Highways Code, and any road conveyed to and accepted by the County by deed, subdivision map or other instrument of record within the unincorporated territory of the County.

b.

"Encroachment" means any sign, billboard, pole, pole line, pipe, pipeline, fence, stand, driveway, roadway, culvert, building excavation or ally structure or object of any kind or character not particularly mentioned herein which is placed in. under or over any portion of the entire County right-of-way.

c.

"Excavation" means the movement or removal of earth, rock, pavement or other material in, on or under the ground. The term includes auguring, backfilling, digging, ditching, drilling, grading, plowing-in, ripping, scraping, trenching and tunneling.

d.

"Newly renovated County highway" means any County highway that has been reconstructed or overlaid with a minimum of one and one-half (1 ½) inch of Asphalt Concrete.

e.

"Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, district or organization.

f.

"Right-of-way" means all of the area between the boundaries of a road, as defined by the instruments creating or conveying the road, and with respect to County highways created by use, all of the area used for road purposes, including the roadbed, shoulders, drainage ditches and fixtures, the entire surface of cuts and fills and other road appurtenances.

(Ord. No. 3907, § 1, 3-1-2005)