Any business involved in the dissemination of material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical activities, including but not limited to adult arcades, adult bookstores or video stores, adult cabarets, adult live entertainment, adult motels, adult motion-picture theaters, adult novelty stores, and massage establishments.

An establishment where, for any form of consideration, one or more still or motion picture projectors, slide projectors, or similar machines, or other image-producing machines, for viewing for five or fewer persons each, are regularly used to show films, motion pictures, videocassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions, which are characterized by the depiction, or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical activities.

A business which derives 25% or more of its gross income from the sale or rental of, or utilizes 25 or more of its retail selling area for, any one of the following: books, magazines, periodicals, films, motion pictures, videocassettes, slides, compact discs and/or computer generation or other visual representations which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

A nightclub, bar, restaurant, bottle club, juice bar, club or similar commercial establishment, whether or not alcoholic beverages are served, which regularly features:

A business where an adult male or female exposes parts of his or her body identified in the definition of "specified anatomical activities".

A hotel, motel, or similar business which:

An enclosed or unenclosed building or structure or portion of a building or structure or drive-in theater used for presenting materials having, as a dominant theme, material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical activities for observations by patrons therein.

A business which derives 25% or more of its gross income from the sale or rental of, or utilizes 25% or more of its retail selling area for, any form of consideration, instruments, devices, or paraphernalia which are designed for use or marketed primarily for stimulation of human genital organs or for sadomasochistic use or abuse of themselves or others.

The practice of visiting an agribusiness, horticultural, or agricultural operation, including, but not limited to, a farm, orchard, winery, a companion animal or livestock show, for the purpose of purchase, recreation, education, or active involvement in the operation, other than as a contractor or employee of the operation. In order to be included under this definition, an activity or use must occur on a farm that is actively producing agricultural products for purchase and sale. It may include any farm marketing or agricultural tourism endeavor such as farm markets, farm direct marketing, farm stays, farm visits, roadside markets or stands, U-pick operations, rent-a-tree operations, community-supported agriculture, rural tourism, agricultural museums, corn mazes, cider mills, pumpkin patches, petting farms, on-farm retail meat shops, on-farm retail dairies and creameries, on-farm woolen goods shops, maple syrup farms, wineries, Christmas tree farms, multifarmers' markets, on-farm retail nurseries, on-farm gift shops, on-farm flowers, herbs and spices stores, on-farm bakeries, and on-farm restaurants or cafes. "On-farm" means an activity occurring upon a working farm. Agritourism includes the following related products and uses:

Includes farming; ranching; aquaculture; apiculture; horticulture; viticulture; animal husbandry, including, but not limited to, the care and raising of livestock, equine, and fur-bearing animals; poultry husbandry and the production of poultry and poultry products; dairy production; the production of field crops, fruits, vegetables, nursery stock, ornamental shrubs, ornamental trees, flowers, sod, or mushrooms; timber; pasturage; any combination of the foregoing; the processing, composting, drying, storage, and marketing of agricultural products when those activities are conducted in conjunction with, but are secondary to, such husbandry or production. Also included under this definition is any use or activity not listed above but included in the definition of "agriculture" set forth in New York State Agriculture and Markets Law as now constituted or hereafter amended.

As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or moving from one location or position to another.

A story partly underground, but having 1/2 or more of its height (measured from floor to ceiling) above the average level of the adjoining ground. A "basement" shall be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurements or determining square footage.

A dwelling in which three or more persons are housed or lodged for hire, with or without meals, including bed-and-breakfast establishments.

A structure having a roof which is used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property. The word "building" shall include any part thereof.

That percentage of the plot or lot area covered by the building area.

A vertical distance measured from the mean elevation of the proposed finish grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the decklines of mansard roofs and to the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.

A line connecting points in each side line equidistant from the street line beyond which no portion of a building, including porches, shall extend, other than steps, eaves and/or cornices.

Any commercial enterprise, association or arrangement for profit.

A story partly underground and having more than 1/2 of its height (measured from floor to ceiling) below the average level of the adjoining ground. A "cellar" shall not be considered in determining the permissible number of stories or square footage.

Code of the Town of Brutus, as amended.

A system of separate ownership of individual units or apartments in a multiunit project.

A building designed to provide care and supervision for four or more children operated on a fee basis.

The transfer of possessions, custody, control or ownership of or the exhibition or presentation of any performance to a person, customer, member of the public or business invitee of any material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical activities.

A land use or structure in which three or more dogs older than two months are kept or harbored.

Any retail or personal service or office, excluding gasoline service centers, that provides goods or services to customers remaining in or by their vehicles or being served outside of the principal structure, including but not limited to drive-in restaurants and banks.

Land used primarily for the disposal by abandonment, dumping, burial, burning or any other means and for whatever purpose of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded machinery, vehicles or parts thereof or waste material of any kind.

A building designed or used exclusively for one or more dwelling units.

One or more persons occupying a dwelling unit as a nonprofit household unit. More than three persons, exclusive of issue and full-time servants, not related by blood, marriage or adoption shall not be considered to constitute one "family."

The square footage included with the building footprint, exclusive of attached garage (exterior dimensions of the foundation).

Length of the front wall of the dwelling facing the street, excluding any attached garage.

A building arranged to be occupied by three or more families living independently of each other, which may have joint or common utility services and which have separate exterior access to each apartment.

A building or other structure or lot used primarily for the servicing of motor vehicles. It may include a retail place of business engaged primarily in the sale of motor fuels and petroleum products and in supplying goods and services generally required in the operation and maintenance of motor vehicles, lubrication services, routine automotive maintenance and repair and the sales of consumables intended primarily for the traveling public.

Any use customarily conducted entirely within the principal structure and carried on by the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the principal structure and does not change the character thereof. The foregoing applies also to professions and trades.

An institution, sanatorium, clinic, rest home, nursing home, convalescent home, senior citizen's home, retirement home and any other place for the diagnosis, treatment or care of people.

An establishment for the temporary occupation by sick or injured animals for the purpose of medical diagnosis, treatment or care of animals during recovery.

A building containing rooms intended or designed to be used primarily for sleeping accommodations by paying guests.

A wrecked motor vehicle, an incomplete or partially dismantled vehicle requiring annual inspection but not in condition to pass annual inspection, or parts of a vehicle.

A lot, land or structure or any part thereof used for the collection, storage or sale of wastepaper, rags, scrapping metal or discarded material or for the collecting, dismantling, storage or salvaging of machinery or vehicles not in running condition and for the sale of parts thereof.

Manufacturing and processing activities confined to enclosed structures and not offensive to adjoining uses by sight, sound or odor, including but not limited to parts assembly and fabrication.

The interior square footage of all habitable rooms within a dwelling unit, not including walls and partitions.

A parcel of land used or set aside and available for use as the site of one or more buildings and buildings accessory thereto for any other purpose, in one ownership and not divided by a street, nor including any land within the right-of-way of a public or private street upon which said "lot" abuts, even if the ownership to such way is in the owner of the "lot." A "lot" for the purpose of this chapter may or may not coincide with a lot of record.

Any boundary line of a lot.

See Article XIV.

A method of treating the external part of the human body by rubbing, stroking, kneading or vibrating with the hand or any instrument or any other treatment or manipulation of the human body which occurs as part of or in connection with specified sexual activities or where any person providing such treatment, manipulation or service related thereto exposes his or her specified anatomical areas.

Any business where body rubs, body shampoos, massages (as defined above) or similar services are administered. This definition shall not include persons licensed or authorized pursuant to Article 55 of the Education Law, or specifically exempt from Article 155 of the Education Law. (See Education Law § 7800 et seq.)

See Article XIV.

Any lot where two or more mobile homes are located, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodations.

Any motorized device designed primarily for the movement or transportation of persons or property over land, including but not limited to motorcycles, snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, automobiles, trucks, tractors and lawn mowers.

See § 125-51.

A building designed to provide daytime care and instruction for three or more children from two to five years of age inclusive, and operated on a fee basis.

Professional, business and bank structures or portions thereof utilized for the transaction of business, administrative operations or personal services, but excluding the sale and exchange of merchandise associated with retail services.

Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, business entity or legal representative, acting individually or jointly.

Rendition or sale of services to the person without any or only incidental sale of merchandise, including but not limited to beauty parlors, barbershops and photographic studios and baby-sitting service, excluding dry cleaners and laundromats.

An attached structure to a dwelling or a detached structure used in connection with the dwelling for the housing of motor vehicles of the dwelling occupants, in which structure no repairs or service to motor vehicles of others shall be allowed.

An establishment used in any manner for the business of repairing and servicing motor vehicles.

The distance between the rear lot line and a line parallel to the rear foundation of any building on the lot.

Establishments for the on-premises consumption of food and beverages at sit-down facilities, including but not limited to cafes, luncheonettes, taverns and bars.

Establishments for the display and retail sale of all manner of products or merchandise, including grocery, hardware and clothing.

Land set aside for use as a street, alley or other means of travel.

A person occupying any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping but not for cooking or eating purposes and paying compensation for lodging or board and lodging by prearrangement for a week or more at a time to an owner or operator. Any person occupying such room or rooms and paying such compensation without prearrangement or for less than a week at a time shall be classified for purposes of this chapter not as a "roomer, boarder or lodger," but as a guest of a commercial lodging establishment (motel, hotel, tourist home).

A parcel of land developed in accordance with a common scheme or design, containing three or more adjoining retail stores, personal service shops or office uses with common parking and driveway facilities, signage or other accessory accommodations. This term shall include strip shopping centers and shopping malls.

Any structure or part thereof or any device attached to a structure or painted or represented on a structure which shall display or include any letter, word, model, banner, flag, pennant, insignia, device or representation used as or which is to be in the nature of an announcement, direction or advertisement. A "sign" includes any billboard. A "sign" does not include temporary real estate "for sale" A-shaped signs, political campaign signs or paper posters announcing temporary events, provided that such are not in excess of four square feet (length by width).

That part of a building located between a floor and the floor or roof next above. A half-story is a "story" under a gable, hip or gambrel roof the wall plates of which, on at least two exterior walls, are not more than two feet above such "story."

A public or private way used or intended to be used for passage or travel by motor vehicles.

The dividing line between the street and the lot. The "street line" shall be the same as the legal right-of-way, provided that where a future right-of-way width for a road or street has been established, then that width shall determine the location of the "street line."

A combination of materials assembled, constructed or erected at a fixed location, including a building, the use of which requires a location on the ground or attachment to something having a location on the ground.

Any body of water or receptacle for water having a depth at any point greater than one foot used or intended to be used for swimming or bathing and constructed, installed or maintained in or above ground. A "swimming pool," including all decking and terraces, shall be deemed a structure for all purposes.

The Town of Brutus.

A building consisting of a series of noncommunicating one-family sections under separate ownership having a common wall between each two adjacent sections with each section having separate utility services and each section being located on a separate filed lot.

See Article XIV.

Any activity, occupation, business or operation carried on or intended to be carried on in a building or other structure or on a tract of land.

An open space unobstructed from the ground up, on the same lot with a structure, extending along a lot line or street line and inward to the structure. The size of a required "yard" shall be measured as the shortest distance between the structure and a lot line or street line.