For the purpose of carrying out the purpose of this title, the words, phrases and terms included in this title shall be deemed to have the meaning ascribed to them by this chapter.

"Abutting, adjoining or contiguous" means, in reference to real property, two or more lots sharing a common boundary line; with reference to two or more objects, "abutting, adjoining or contiguous" means in immediate contact with each other.

"Access" means the place, or way, by which pedestrians and/or vehicles shall have safe, adequate and usable ingress and egress to a property.

"Accessory dwelling unit" means an attached or a detached residential dwelling unit that provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons and is located on a lot with a proposed or existing primary residence. An accessory dwelling unit may include the following:

"Accessory use" means a use customarily incidental, related and clearly subordinate, to a permitted principal use, which accessory use is established on the same lot as the principal use.

"Adjacent" means two or more objects which are located in close proximity to each other.

"Adult-use" (or nonmedical) refers to an activity involving cannabis or cannabis products that is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over and who do not possess physician's recommendations, in contrast to activities involving medical cannabis or medical cannabis products.

"Alcoholism hospital" means an institution intended solely for the admission, diagnosis and intensive short-term treatment of patients addicted to excessive use of alcohol, and related conditions, licensed as such by the State of California.

"Alley" means a public or private way, other than a street or highway, permanently reserved as a means of secondary vehicular access to adjoining properties.

"Antenna or wireless communication facility" means a device used in communications which transmits or receives radio signals. "Antennas and wireless communication facilities" shall include, but not be limited to, dish, panel, satellite, whips, building-mounted and freestanding structures used for the transmission or receipt of radio signals.

"Apartment house" means the same as multiple dwelling.

"Assessor" means the tax assessor of the County of Los Angeles.

"Automobile and truck wash facilities" means:

"Basement" means that portion of a building which is totally or partly below the level finished grade of the lot upon which it is located.

"Billboard" means a large, off-premises sign structure designed for changeable copy, which is used for the advertisement of goods, products, causes, activities, or services, and can also serve public service purposes. These are typically positioned on highly visible, heavy traffic locations such as expressways and major roadways. "Off-premises" means that the billboard identifies a business, activity, cause, service, or product at a location other than where the billboard is displayed. "Advertisement" in the context of billboards should be interpreted broadly and not be limited to refer only to commercial activity.

"Board" or "architectural review board" means the architectural review board created by the city council which board shall perform the functions assigned to it pursuant to the provisions of the Bell zoning code.

"Borrow pit" means the same as quarry.

"Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns or by walls and intended for the shelter, housing or enclosure of persons or property of any kind.

"Accessory building" means a detached building housing a permitted accessory use, located on the same lot as the main building or principal use; provided, that if the same is attached to a main building by a common wall or roof, it shall be deemed to be a part of such main building.

"Main building" means a building in which is conducted a principal use permitted upon the lot upon which it is situated.

"Building or structure height" means the vertical distance from the average finished grade of the lot to the highest point of the building or structure. The average finished grade of a lot shall be determined by taking the average of the highest and lowest elevations of the curb at the street providing primary access to the property.

"Business" means any employment, vocation, occupation, profession, trade, calling, lawful game, show, exhibition, event, venture, fund-raising activity, commercial enterprise, company, corporation, joint enterprise, place of business, partnership or other activity or enterprise engaged in for gain, profit, benefit, advantage or livelihood, whether or not a gain, profit, benefit, advantage or livelihood is earned by such business.

"Business frontage" means the portion of a building occupied by a single business tenant that fronts, or nearly fronts (not more than 45 degrees), on a public street, faces a courtyard, pedestrian corridor or walkway, parking lot or alley.

"Cannabis" has the same definition as provided in Section 26001 of the Business and Professions Code for the term "cannabis," and as may be amended, defined as "all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, Cannabis indica, or Cannabis ruderalis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin, whether crude or purified, extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds, or resin. 'Cannabis' also means the separated resin, whether crude or purified, obtained from cannabis. 'Cannabis' does not include the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks (except the resin extracted there from), fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant which is incapable of germination."

"Cannabis products" means cannabis that has undergone a process whereby the plant material has been transformed into a concentrate, including, but not limited to, concentrated cannabis, or an edible or topical product containing cannabis or concentrated cannabis and other ingredients.

"CAO" means the chief administrative officer of the City of Bell.

"Carport" means a permanently roofed structure with not more than two enclosed sides, used or intended to be used for automobile shelter.

"Cellar" means the same as basement.

"Centerline" means the centerline of any street, highway or alley.

"Check cashing service" means an operation for which a license is required pursuant to Section 12004 et seq., of the Financial Code of the State of California.

"Cheli district," as understood by the city's general plan and as may be amended, means an area within the boundaries of the City of Bell, located on the northeast of the Central City Area, generally described as the area bordered by the 710 Freeway and the Los Angeles River along its southwest boundaries, southeast of Atlantic Boulevard, the area south of Bandini Boulevard between Atlantic Boulevard and Pennington Way, bordered by Pennington Way on the northwest, the area south of 26th Street and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, bordered by Eastern Avenue along the east, the portion east of Eastern Avenue between Bandini Boulevard (north) and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (south), and bordered by Mansfield Way along its south boundary.

"Child care facilities" means a child care facility which provides nonmedical care to children under 18 years of age in need of personal services, supervision or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual on less than a 24 hour basis. Child care facilities include day care centers and family day care homes.

"Children's day care center (emotionally disturbed)" means a facility intended solely for the admission of minors with mental illness or neurological or emotional disorders, who are provided with an organized daytime program of services, licensed as such by the State of California. Patients are not permitted to remain overnight.

"Children's treatment center (emotionally disturbed)" means an institution of one bed capacity or more intended solely for the admission and treatment of minors with mental illness or behavior or emotional disorders, licensed as such by the State of California.

"City" means the City of Bell.

"Clerk" means the city clerk of the City of Bell.

"Private club" means any building or premises used by an association of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated, organized for some common purpose, but not including a group organized solely or primarily to render a service customarily carried on as a commercial enterprise.

"Commercial cannabis operation" includes the cultivation, possession, manufacture, distribution, processing, storing, laboratory testing, packaging, labeling, transportation, delivery, or sale (including retail and wholesale) of cannabis and cannabis products; except, as applicable, as governed by regulations for personal cannabis cultivation provided by this code, or as preempted by state law.

"Commercial cannabis operation permit" means a City of Bell permit issued pursuant to the procedures provided for in Chapter 5.88 and which shall allow the permit holder to operate a specific type of commercial cannabis operation in the City of Bell subject to the requirements of Chapter 5.88, this code, state law, and the specific permit.

"Commission" means the planning commission of the City of Bell.

"Communications equipment buildings" means buildings housing operating electrical and mechanical equipment utilized in conducting a public utility communications operation.

"Condominium" means dwelling unit as is described in Section 783 of the Civil Code of the State of California.

"Convalescent home" means the same as nursing and convalescent hospital, licensed as such by the State of California.

"Council" means the city council of the City of Bell.

"Court" means an area which is open and unoccupied by any building or structure, bounded on three or more sides by the exterior walls of a building. An inner court is a court entirely enclosed within the exterior walls of a building. All other courts are outer courts.

"Cultivation" means any activity involving the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of cannabis.

"CUP" means conditional use permit.

"Dairy" means any premises where one or more cows or goats, or any combination thereof, are kept or maintained for the purpose of producing milk.

"Day care center" means any child care facility, other than a large or small family day care home, which includes infant centers, pre-schools and extended day care facilities, which provides day care to four or more children.

"Day center" means a facility intended solely for the admission of patients with intellectual disabilities, who are provided with a daytime program of education or training, handicraft, vocational and recreational activities, licensed as such by the State of California. Patients are not permitted to remain overnight.

"Day treatment hospital" means a place intended solely for the admission and treatment of patients with mental illness or mental disorder, who are provided with a daytime program of organized treatment, activities and supervision under medical direction, licensed as such by the State of California. Patients are not permitted to remain overnight.

"Digital billboard" means a billboard that utilizes digital message technology capable of changing the static message or copy on the sign electronically or wirelessly via computer. This includes, without limitation, bill-boards also known as electronic billboards or LED billboards.

"Director" means the director of community development for the City of Bell or designee.

"Distribution" means the procurement, sale, and transport of cannabis and cannabis products between entities licensed for and/or engaged in commercial cannabis operations.

"Inert solid dump" means an area devoted to the disposal of non-water soluble, nondecomposable inert solids such as natural earth, rock, sand and gravel paving fragments, concrete, brick, plaster and plaster products; steel mill slag; glass; asbestos fiber and products there from.

"Rubbish and refuse dump" means an area devoted to the disposal of inert solids and/or decomposable organic refuse and scrap metal.

"Duplex" means the same as two-family dwelling.

"Multiple dwelling" means a building containing two or more dwelling units.

"Single-family or one-family dwelling" means a building designed and used for occupancy as living quarters for one family and containing one dwelling unit.

"Three-family dwelling" means a building designed or used for occupancy as living quarters by three families and containing three dwelling units.

"Two-family dwelling" means a building designed or used for occupancy as living quarters by two families and containing two dwelling units.

"Dwelling unit" means one or more rooms in a building used or intended to be used for occupancy by one family as its living quarters.

"Educational institution" means any public, private or parochial, elementary, junior high, high school, university, or other school giving general academic instruction in the several branches of learning.

"Explosives" means any explosive substance as defined in Section 12000 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California.

"Facilities for drug addicts" means facilities licensed by the state which admit, treat and care for patients who are addicted to the use of narcotic drugs.

"Family" means persons living together as a single housekeeping unit in an apartment or dwelling unit.

"Family day care home" means a home which regularly provides care, protection and supervision of 12 or fewer children, in the provider's own home, for periods of less than 24 hours per day, while the parents or guardians are away and includes the following:

"Family home (intellectually disabled)" means a facility intended solely for the admission of one or more intellectually disabled patients who are provided with a program of services and protective supervision in a home setting.

"Family home (mentally ill)" means a facility intended solely for the admission of not more than six mentally ill or emotionally disordered patients who are provided with a program of services and protective supervision in a home setting.

"View-obscuring fence" means a solid masonry wall, a wooden fence with openings between joints less than one-half inch, or chain link fabric with interwoven opaque plastic, metal or wooden slats with openings less than one-half inch.

"Gross floor area" means the total horizontal floor area of all floors of a building included within its surrounding walls.

"Net floor area" means the total horizontal floor area of all the floors of a building included within the surrounding walls, exclusive of vents, shafts, courts and off-street parking facilities.

"Fortunetelling" means the business or art of astrology, phrenology, life reading, fortunetelling, clairvoyance, clairaudience, crystal gazing, hypnotism, mediumship, mesmerism, oriental mysteries, palmistry, spirit photography, spirit writing, spirit voices, spirit materialization, etherealization, numerology, augury, divination, or other similar or related art or business.

"Freestanding sign" means a permanent sign that is self-supporting in a fixed location and not attached to a building. A freestanding sign can be connected or attached to a fence or wall that is not an integral part of a building. Freestanding signs include, but are not limited to, monument signs, pole signs, and pylon signs.

"Street frontage" means the width of the front boundary line of a lot which abuts upon a street or highway.

"Garage" means any building, with three enclosed sides, having not less than 200 square feet of floor area, provided with a closeable access door or doors, which is used or intended to be used for automobile shelter or storage.

When consistent with context, words in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter genders.

"Ground level grade" means the average level of the finished ground surface of a lot, immediately surrounding a building, measured at the center of all walls of the building.

"Gradient" means the rate of vertical change of a ground surface expressed as a percentage figure and determined by dividing the vertical distance by the horizontal distance.

"Guest house or accessory living quarters" means living quarters within an accessory building for the sole use of persons employed on the premises, or for temporary use by guests of the occupants of the premises. Such quarters shall have no kitchen facilities and shall not be rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling unit.

See building or structure height.

"Major highway" means a major highway designated as such by the city council.

"Secondary highway" means a secondary highway designated as such by the city council.

"Hog ranch" means any premises where one or more weaned hogs are kept or maintained.

"Home occupation" means an occupation, calling or profession carried on by an occupant of a dwelling unit, located in an R zone, as an accessory use.

"Hospital" means an institution staffed and equipped to provide the various types of intensified hospital care, including, but not limited to, short-term care in acute medical, surgical and obstetrical services, but shall not include the treatment, other than on an emergency temporary basis, of alcoholic or mental patients.

"Hotel" means any building or portion of any building with access provided through a common entrance, lobby or hallway to one or more guest rooms, which have no cooking facilities, and which are designed and intended to be used or are used, rented or hired out as temporary or overnight accommodations for guests.

"Household pets" means, and is limited to, only the following animals, birds and or fish, and no others:

"Indoor," in the context of commercial cultivation, refers to cultivation using exclusively artificial lighting and no natural lighting.

"Interior sign" means any sign located greater than three feet inside a building, not attached to an exterior window or door.

"Junior accessory dwelling unit" means a unit that is no more than 500 square feet in size and contained within a single-family residence.

"Kitchen" means any room or space within a building designed, intended to be used or used for the cooking or preparation of food.

"Landscaped area" means an area upon which landscaping is required to be continuously maintained.

"Landscaping" means the planting and maintenance of some combination of trees, shrubs, vines, groundcovers, flowers, lawn or other flora. Accessory to the plantings, natural features such as rock and stone, and structural features, including, but not limited to, fountains, reflecting pools, artworks, screens, walls, fences and benches, may be included in the combination provided such nonflora features do not exceed seven and one-half percent of the landscaped area.

"Live entertainment" means every form of live entertainment, music, acting, play, show, fashion show, review, pantomime, scene, song or dance, act, or song and dance act, or any other act or performance participated in by one or more persons, whether paid performers or guests or patrons, for purposes of holding the attention, gaining the attention and interest of, diverting or amusing guests or patrons, and shall include any of such forms of live entertainment for the purpose of advertisement, demonstration, or display of goods, wares, merchandise or services with the exception of "adult entertainment" as defined in the city's definition section of the zoning ordinance codified in this section.

"Long-term facility" means an institution of one-patient capacity or more intended primarily for the admission of chronic mentally ill, or mentally disordered patients, who are provided nursing services and intensive supervision, licensed as such by the State of California.

"Lot or parcel of land" means:

"Lot area" means the total area, measured in a horizontal plane, included within the lot lines of a lot.

"Corner lot" means a lot situated at the intersection of two or more streets and highways.

"Lot depth" means the horizontal distance measured between the midpoints of the front and rear lot lines.

"Interior lot" means a lot other than a corner or reversed corner lot.

"Front lot line" means a line separating an interior lot from a street; in the case of a corner lot, the lot line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street. In the case of a lot having no street frontage, "front lot line" means the narrowest lot line parallel and closest to the nearest street or highway, as determined by the director.

"Rear lot line" means a lot line which is most distant from the front lot line.

"Side lot line" means any lot boundary line which is not a front or rear lot line.

"Reversed corner lot" means a corner lot, the side lot line of which is substantially a continuation of the front line of a lot which adjoins the rear lot line of such corner lot.

"Through lot" means a lot, having frontage on two approximately parallel streets or highways.

"Lot width" means the horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured between two points each located on the side lot lines at a distance midway between the front and rear lot lines.

"Manufacturer" means a person that conducts the production, preparation, propagation, or compounding of cannabis or cannabis products either directly or indirectly or by extraction methods, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis at a fixed location that packages or repackages cannabis or cannabis products or labels or relabels its container.

"Manufacturer Level 1 (Type 6)" means a manufacturer that manufactures cannabis products using nonvolatile solvents, or no solvents, as understood by Chapter 13 ("Manufacturers and Cannabis Products") of Division 10 ("Cannabis") of the Business and Professions Code, and as may be amended.

"Manufacturer Level 2 (Type 7)" means a manufacturer that manufactures cannabis products using volatile solvents, as understood by Chapter 13 ("Manufacturers and Cannabis Products") of Division 10 ("Cannabis") of the Business and Professions Code, and as may be amended.

"Marijuana" has the same definition as provided for "cannabis" in this chapter.

"May" is permissive.

"Medical" refers to activities involving medical cannabis or medical cannabis products, in contrast to activities involving adult-use cannabis or adult-use cannabis products.

"Medical and/or dental clinic" means any facility providing physical health service, or medical, surgical or dental care of the sick or injured, but shall not include in-patient or overnight accommodations. "Medical clinic" includes health center, health clinic, doctors' and dentists' offices.

"Medical cannabis" or "medical cannabis product" means cannabis or a cannabis product used for medical purposes in accordance with state law, including the Compassionate Use Act (Health and Safety Code Section 11362.5), the Medical Marijuana Program Act (Health and Safety Code Section 11362.7, et seq.), and the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (Business and Professions Code Section 26000, et seq.).

"Microbusiness" shall have the same definition in regards to cannabis uses as provided for in Section 26070 of the Business and Professions Code, and as may be amended from time to time.

"Mixed-light," in the context of commercial cultivation, refers to cultivation using a combination of natural and supplemental artificial lighting.

"Mobilehome or coach" means a structure which is:

"Motel" means one or more buildings containing guest rooms or dwelling units, without kitchen facilities, with one or more such guest rooms or units, each having a separate entrance leading directly from the outside of the buildings or from an inner court; which facilities are designed, used or intended to be used, rented or hired out for temporary or overnight accommodations for guests, and are offered primarily to automobile tourists or transients by signs or other advertising media; one unit, for use by a manager, may have kitchen facilities. "Motel" includes auto courts, motor lodges and tourists courts.

"Monument sign" means a freestanding low-profile sign directly supported by a foundation or pedestal base affixed to the ground.

Whenever written notice is required to be given under this title, the same shall be given by personal service thereof upon the persons to be notified, or by United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to such person at his or her last known address, such notice shall be conclusively deemed complete upon the same being deposited in the course of postal transmission.

"Nursery" means a person that produces indoors (not mixed-light nor outdoors) only clones, immature plants, seeds, and other agricultural products used specifically for the planting, propagation, and cultivation of cannabis.

"Nursery (special needs)" means a facility intended primarily for the admission of nonambulatory mentally retarded patients, who are provided nursing services primarily in crib accommodations.

"Nursery school" means the same as child care facility.

"Nursing and convalescent hospital" means any place or institution which provides bed accommodations for one or more chronic or convalescent patients who, by reason of illness or physical infirmity, are unable to properly care for themselves. Alcoholics, drug addicts, persons with mental or communicable diseases, including contagious tuberculosis, shall not be admitted or cared for in nursing and convalescent hospitals.

"Oath" includes affirmation.

"Outdoor," in the context of commercial cultivation, refers to cultivation using exclusively natural lighting and no artificial lighting.

"Outdoor advertising structure" or "billboard" means a sign or other advertising structure, which may be printed (static) or digital, and is designed and primarily used to solicit public support or direct public attention to the sale, lease, hire or use of any objects, products, services or functions, which are not produced, sold or otherwise available on the premises where such sign or structure is located.

"Outdoor play equipment" means apparatus designed and intended for play and enjoyment by children. These apparatuses should contain elements such as: slides, balance features, swings, climbing features and/or other enjoyable elements arranged in such a manner as to create a play space for children.

"Off-street parking space" means a readily accessible area on a lot, not including driveways, ramps, loading or work areas, maintained exclusively for the parking of one automobile.

"Person" means any individual, firm, co-partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, corporation, limited liability company, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate, district, political subdivision, public utility, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, except the City of Bell.

"Physician's recommendation" means a determination from a physician that a patient's medical cannabis use is deemed appropriate and is recommended by the physician on the basis of the physician has determined that the patient's health would benefit from the use of cannabis in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which cannabis provides relief, in strict accordance with the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 (Proposition 215), and as understood by Section 11362.5 of the Health and Safety Code.

When consistent with the context, words in the plural include the singular.

"Pole sign" means a freestanding sign wholly supported by poles, columns or other upright structure that are affixed to the ground.

"Precise plan of development" means a precise plan of development approved as such pursuant to Chapter 17.48 of this title.

"Processing" means, when used in reference to a commercial or industrial use, one or more acts or operations which have the effect of changing the form of a product or material, so as to render the same more salable or usable.

"Projecting sign" (also known as a blade sign) means a building-mounted, double-sided sign with the two faces perpendicular to the building wall.

"Psychiatric hospital" means an institution intended primarily for the admission, diagnosis and intensive short-term treatment of patients with mental illness or behavior or emotional disorders.

"Pylon sign" means a freestanding sign in excess of 25 feet in height that is detached from a building and is supported by one or more structural elements which are architecturally similar to the design of the sign.

"Quarry" means any place on a lot where dirt, soil, sand, gravel, rock or other similar material is removed by excavation or otherwise, for any purpose except:

"Recorder" means the county recorder of the County of Los Angeles.

"Recyclable material" means reusable material, including, but not limited to, metals, glass, plastic and paper, which are intended for reuse, remanufacture or reconstitution for the purpose of using the altered form. "Recyclable material" does not include refuse or hazardous materials. "Recyclable material" may include used motor oil collected and transported in accordance with Sections 25250.11 and 25143.2 of the California Health and Safety Code.

"Small or large recycling collection facility" means a center for the acceptance, by donation, redemption, or purchase, of recyclable materials from the public. A recycling collection facility shall not use power-driven processing equipment.

"Small recycling collection facility" means a recycling collection facility which occupies an area of 500 square feet or less and includes any of the following:

"Large recycling collection facility" means a recycling collection facility which occupies an area of more than 500 square feet and may include permanent structures.

"Light or heavy recycling processing facility" means a building or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recyclable materials. "Processing" means the preparation of material for efficient shipment, or to an end-user's specifications, by such means as baling, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning or remanufacturing.

"Mobile recycling unit" means an automobile, truck, trailer or van, licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles, which is used for the collection of recyclable materials. "Mobile recycling unit" also means the bins, boxes or containers transported by trucks, vans or trailers, and used for the collection of recyclable materials.

"Resident facility (developmentally disabled)" means an institution of one-bed capacity or more intended solely for the admission of developmentally disabled patients who require supervision and who are provided with an organized program of services, licensed as such by the State of California.

"Resident school (developmentally disabled)" means a facility intended primarily for the training and education of developmentally disabled persons.

"Rest home" means the same as nursing and convalescent hospital, licensed as such by the State of California.

"Retailer" means a person engaged in the retail sale and delivery of cannabis or cannabis products to customers.

"Reverse vending machine" means an automated mechanical device which accepts at least one or more types of empty beverage containers including, but not limited to, aluminum cans, glass and plastic bottles, and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip with a value not less than the container's redemption value as determined by state law. A reverse vending machine may sort and process containers mechanically provided that the entire process is enclosed within the machine.

"Bulk reverse vending machine" means a reverse vending machine that is larger than 50 square feet, is designed to accept more than one container at a time and will pay by weight instead of by container.

"School, charter" is a public school operated independently of public school systems, either by non-profit or for-profit organizations. Charter schools generally receive a percentage of the per-pupil funds from the state and local school districts for operational costs based on enrollment.

"School, vocational" is a type of post-secondary education that trains students for a specific line of work, often in healthcare or other hands-on fields. Vocational schools are different from typical four-year colleges because the programs are less academic and more job-focused. "School, vocational" includes business colleges, dance academies, music instruction and other commercial schools or instructional institutions.

"School, private" is a school that does not get money from the government and that is run by a group of private individuals. This shall include parochial schools, resident schools, day centers, day care centers and nursery schools as defined in the BMC.

"School, public" is a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.

"Secretary" means the secretary of the commission.

"Service station" means a retail place of business engaged primarily in the sale of motor fuels but also in supplying goods and services generally required in the operation and maintenance of motor vehicles. Such goods and services include sale of petroleum products; sale and servicing of tires, batteries, automotive accessories and replacement items; washing and lubrication services; the performance of minor automotive maintenance and repair; and the supplying of other incidental customer services and products. Major automotive repairs, painting and body and fender work are excluded.

"Senior citizen housing complex" means and includes the following: two or more residential units located in a building off a lot within the city which are designated, used and/or restricted for use by persons who are over the age of 55 years or who are disabled, as defined by applicable law.

"Shall" is mandatory.

"Sign" means any device for visual communication, including any announcement, declaration, demonstration, display, illustration or insignia, which is used to advertise or promote the products or services of any person, business group or enterprise.

When consistent with the context, words in the singular number shall include the plural.

"Solid fill" means any noncombustible materials, insoluble in water, such as soil, rock, sand or gravel, that can be used for grading land or filling depressions.

"Solid fill project" means any operation on a parcel of land where more than 1,000 cubic yards of solid fill materials are deposited for any purpose including the grading or reclaiming of land.

"Sports equipment" means equipment utilized for athletic purposes, including, but not limited to, weights, ropes, and other related training equipment.

"State" means the State of California.

"Story" means that portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a building included between the upper surface of the topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above. Story includes a basement.

"Street" means a public or private way permanently reserved as a primary means of vehicular access to adjoining property.

See Frontage, street.

"Structure" means anything constructed or erected, which requires a fixed location on the ground, or is attached to something having a fixed location on the ground.

"Temporary election season sign" means a sign that is erected no more than 45 days before and/or maintained in place no more than 10 days after an election at which residents of Bell are eligible to vote.

When consistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the past and future tenses; and words in the future tense include the present tense.

"Testing laboratory" means a laboratory, facility, or entity that offers or performs tests on cannabis or cannabis products.

"Townhouse" means a dwelling unit which is located upon a slot upon which only that dwelling unit is located, and the lot is included in an approved precise plan of development.

"Trailer coach" means a mobilehome which is transportable in one or more sections, built on a permanent chassis, and is designed and equipped to be used as a dwelling unit, without a foundation system, containing one dwelling unit.

"Trailer park" means a lot where two or more trailer coaches or trailer coach sites are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease for trailer coaches.

"Trailer site" means that portion of a trailer park designated for use or occupancy of one trailer coach and including all appurtenant facilities thereon.

"Transfer station" means an area, including any necessary building or structures, for the temporary storage and the salvage of rubbish, garbage or industrial waste.

"Triplex" means the same as three-family dwelling.

"Underlying zone classification," when used in conjunction with an overlay zone, means the zone classification of the lot as shown on the city's official zoning map, described in Section 17.12.020 of this code, to which it relates.

"Use" means the utilization of a lot, building, structure, or any other improvement upon a lot, or any combination thereof.

"Volatile solvent" has the same definition as set forth in Health and Safety Code Section 11362.3, and as may be amended, defined as a solvent that is or produces a flammable gas or vapor that, when present in the air in sufficient quantities, will create explosive or ignitable mixtures.

"Wall sign" means a sign that is parallel to the building wall and attached to the exterior of the building entry or business frontage.

"Window sign" means a sign that is applied or attached to the interior of a window or located within three feet of a window inside of the building.

"Writing" includes any form of message recorded in English and capable of visual comprehension.

"Yard" means an area upon a lot or parcel of land, other than a court or open space, required as a front, side or rear yard, which shall be maintained unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward; provided that encroachment shall be permitted in yards only as expressly authorized in this title.

"Yard equipment" means anything constructed, assembled or erected and located outdoors, which does not require a fixed location on the ground and which is not attached to something having a fixed location on the ground. Examples of yard equipment include, but are not limited to, any of the following items, provided such items are not "structures": storage sheds, greenhouses, sports equipment, automobile shades and containers. Yard equipment does not include outdoor play equipment, dog houses, and does not include ordinary yard furniture and umbrellas, trash cans, seasonal decorations, or signs and flags which are separately regulated.

"Front yard" means a yard extending across the full width of the front lot line of a lot. The depth of a required front yard shall be the specified horizontal distance measured between the front lot line and a line parallel thereto, on the lot.

"Rear yard" means a yard extending across the full width of the rear of a lot. The depth of a required rear yard shall be the specified horizontal distance measured between the rear lot line and a line parallel thereto on the lot.

"Side yard" means a yard extending from the rear line of the required front yard, or the front lot line where no front yard is required, to the front line of the required rear yard, or the rear lot line where no rear yard is required. The width of a required side yard shall be the specified horizontal measured distance between each side lot line and line parallel thereto on the lot.

"Zone" means the classification of specific properties which are of the zones referred to in Section 17.12.010 of this code.