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SECTION XII
DEFINITIONS
A. ACCESSORY USE: A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use, and located on the same lot as the principal use, such as, but not limited to, a private garage, storage shed, swimming pool, or tennis court, and neither injurious, offensive nor detrimental to the neighborhood. An Accessory Use may not be the same as or an extension of a principal use except, where the principal use is that of residential occupancy, for temporary or occasional guest quarters, or by special exception granted by the Zoning Board of Adjustment.
B. CAMPER and/or TRAVEL TRAILER: An easily maneuverable licensed mobile or motor home, as below defined, that can be attached to or superimposed on a licensed pick-up type of truck, or is in a small licensed trailer easily attachable to a private automobile or light truck for towing at normal automobile speeds on public highways.
C. LIGHT TRUCK: A small truck, such as a van or pick-up truck, of not over 8,100 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, with enclosed front seat usable similarly to that in a prIvate automobile.
D. MOBILE OR MOTOR HOME: Any vehicle or structure (by whatever name called) used or so constructed as to permit its being operated or towed as a conveyance (whether licensed or not) on public roads and highways, and so constructed as to permit occupancy thereof as a dwelling or sleeping place for one or more persons, whether or not the same be provided with a toilet, wash basin, bathtub and/or shower, and whether or not placed on a foundation.
E. ORDINARY WORD USAGE: Unless otherwise defined hereunder, all words shall be construed according to their usual prevailing meaning and customary usage.
F. SINGLE-FAMILY: One or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption, or not over three persons not so related, living together in a single-family dwelling, with a single food preparation area, and as distinguished from a group, club, fraternity, or other organization, whether or not religious or fraternal; and including a reasonable number of employees consonant with the family's circumstances and having regular duties connected with the household; this definition not to be construed as excluding occasional temporary guests.
G. TEMPORARY and OCCASIONAL: In the absence of other criteria, these words shall be construed as applying to a single use for a period of not over ten (10) days.
H. WETLANDS: Wetlands are described as those areas which are inundated or saturated with surface or ground water at a frequency or duration sufficient to support and do support under normal circumstances a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands can be coastal or inland, salt or fresh water, and are known by various names including swamps, marshes, and bogs. (This definition, dated January, 1989, is taken directly from the Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineating Jurisdictional Wetlands, and is in use by the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Army, and the Soil Conservation Service.) For purposes of Section VII K, the term “wetlands” shall not include an inland (i.e., non-tidal) wetland which consists of a
vegetated swale, roadside ditch or other drainage way; a sedimentation/detention basin; or an agricultural/irrigation pond.
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