Except as specifically defined herein, all words used in this ordinance have their customary dictionary definitions. For the purposes of this ordinance certain words or terms are defined as follows:

Words used in the present tense include the future tense. Words used in the singular include the plural, and words used in the plural include the singular.

The word "shall" is always mandatory.

The word "person" includes a firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company or corporation as well as an individual.

The word "lot" includes the word "lot" or "parcel."

The word "building" includes the word "structure."

The word "used" or "occupied," as applied to any land or building, shall be construed to include the words "intended, or arranged, or designed to be used or occupied."

The word "map" or "zoning map" refers to the "Zoning Districts Map" of the City of Lyons, Georgia.

Accessory use or building: A use or building customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building.

Boarding or rooming house: Any dwelling in which three or more persons either individually or as families are housed for hire with or without meals.

Buffer strip, planted: A strip of land along a property line reserved for screening purposes from adjoining properties or public rights-of-way and planted with trees and/or shrubs in such a manner as to provide such screening.

Building: Any structure attached to the ground and intended for shelter, housing or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels.

Business sign: An attached or freestanding structure on which is announced the business use of the premises and/or the name of the operator of the business.

Centerline of street: The centerline of a street is the line surveyed and monumented by the governing body as such or, if a centerline has not been surveyed and monumented, it shall be that line running midway between the outside curbs or ditches of the streets.

Dwelling: A building designed or used for permanent living quarters for one or more families.

Dwelling unit: A dwelling or portion thereof providing permanent living quarters for one or more persons living as a single housekeeping unit.

Family: One or more persons occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single housekeeping unit.

Front yard: An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, extending the full width of the lot and located between the street line and the front line of the building projected to the sidelines of the lot.

House trailer or mobile home means a movable or portable dwelling, over 32 feet long and over eight feet wide, constructed to be towed on its own chassis and connected to utilities, and designed without a permanent foundation for yearround occupancy. Such dwelling can consist of one or more components that can be retracted for towing purposes and subsequently expanded for additional capacity; or it can consist of two or more units separately towable but designed to be joined into one integral unit.

Lot: A parcel of land occupied or capable of being occupied by one or more buildings and the accessory buildings or uses customarily incidental to it, including such open spaces as are required by this ordinance.

Lot width: The distance between the side boundaries of the lot measured at the front building line.

Major street: A street designated as a major street on the zoning districts map of the City of Lyons, Georgia.

Manufactured home means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein; except that such term shall include any structure which meets all the requirements of this paragraph except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and complies with the standards established under the National Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974.

Outdoor advertising sign: An attached or freestanding structure conveying some information, knowledge or idea to the public.

Secondary street: A street or highway designated as a secondary street on the zoning districts map of the City of Lyons, Georgia.

Side yard: An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building located between the side of the building and the sideline of the lot and extending from the rear line of the front yard to the front line of the rear yard.

Structure: Anything constructed or erected on the ground or attached to something located on the ground.

Trailer park: A lot, portion or parcel of land designed for or which is intended to be used commercially for accommodation of two or more residential trailers.

(Ord. of 4-3-1984)