§ 13.40.010. Definitions.

For the purposes of this subchapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

"Basement and underground garages" mean and include garages located below grade and used solely for parking purposes. Motor vehicles may be parked by a garage attendant or by the driver. A basement garage has occupancies above it. An underground garage has no occupancy, other than a garage, above it.

"Car," "Truck" and "Vehicle." Such terms are interchangeable, and each includes the other.

"Existing" means in operation as of the effective date of this chapter.

"Parked vehicle" means any vehicle which has been assigned to a specific space in the parking pattern of a particular parking lot, parking deck or garage, and does not apply to a vehicle temporarily stopped on a ramp, aisle way, or in an entrance or exit.

"Parking garages" means garages having exterior enclosing walls, used for the parking of motor vehicles. Parking garages may involve the use of conventional type elevator, attendant operated, mechanical control push button elevators or ramps.

"Parking lots" means lots used for the temporary storage of passenger cars or trucks and having no building other than a waiting room and office space for the attendants at the lot.

"Proposed or new" means any parking facility established after the effective date of this chapter.

"Public parking decks" means open-air parking garages or structures having not less than fifty percent of two sides of the structure open at each story and limited in use only to the temporary parking of motor vehicles.

"Ramps" means passageways used in garages and parking decks to travel from one parking level to another. The term "ramp" does not include the entrances and exits of parking lots, parking decks or garages, and does not include aisle ways provided in a parking pattern for ingress and egress to specific parking spaces.

(Prior code § 30-2-1)