27.01.010 Definitions.

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

City means the City of Davis.

Director refers to the director of community services, or designee.

Open space area means a natural, open space area owned, used or maintained by the city, and devoted to habitat, agriculture or passive recreation and not designated a park by the city.

Park means a park, reservation, playground, golf course, swimming pool, recreation center, greenbelts, greenways, or any other area in the city, owned or used by the city and devoted to active or passive recreation.

Person means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind.

Posted agricultural buffer area means an area adjacent to actively farmed agricultural fields designated to protect normal and lawful agricultural practices from impacts of adjacent land uses and posted for that purpose. Public access may or may not be occasionally allowed in posted agricultural buffer areas by special permit (see Section 27.03.190).

Use means the presence by any person at or upon any park or open space area for any reason whatsoever, regardless of the length or brevity of any such presence.

Vehicle means any wheeled conveyance, whether motor-powered, animal-drawn, self-propelled, or pushed. (Ord. 1011 § 2; Ord. 1877 § 1; Ord. 2390 § 3, 2012)