For the purpose of this ordinance, certain terms are defined as provided in this section:
A. "Home Produce and Products" means and includes all vegetables, fruits, flowers, plants, poultry and maple products plus cordwood and Christmas trees, all of which must have been grown on the property by members of the household of a bona fide resident.
B. "Right of Way" means and includes all Town, State and Federal highways and land at either side of same as covered by statutes to determine the width of rights of way.
C. "Permanent Residents". A family shall be considered permanent residents when they have used any building continuously as a residence for a period of six (6) months or more.
D. "Hotels" shall mean and include any building, which contains more than twelve (12) rooms and advertises to accommodate people with food and sleeping quarters for a price.
E. "Bed & Breakfast Inn" shall mean and include all dwellings where sleeping accommodations plus the breakfast meal are provided for a price.
F. "Front Yard" shall mean a space extending for the full width of a lot between the extreme front line of the building and the nearest side of the right of way.
G. "Frontage" shall mean the length of the lot bordering on a Class V or better highway, as defined in New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated (RSA) 229:5, or a street shown on an official map, if any.
H. "Permanent Building" shall mean any building resting on a foundation or otherwise legally defined as real estate. For the purpose of setback requirements, swimming pools are considered to be permanent buildings.
I. "Advertising Sign" shall mean any display identifying or promoting a business, product, or service, whether such display is freestanding or is attached to a structure or painted thereon.
J. "Business" shall mean establishments engaged in the trading of goods and services.
K. "Industry" shall mean any non-residential building or land area in which the industrial operations of manufacturing, processing, fabricating, assembly, packaging, finishing, treating, or compounding or similar processes take place or in which are located establishments engaged in the trading of goods and services.
L. "Accessory Dwelling Unit" shall mean a separate dwelling unit incorporated within or to become attached to an existing one-family dwelling.
M. "Housing" shall mean all residential dwellings containing a minimum of three hundred twenty (320) square feet of living area, i.e., bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, which shall include all forms of housing construction on or off site.
N. "Family" shall mean any number of persons related by blood or marriage, or not more than four (4) persons not related by blood or marriage, living together as a single housekeeping unit.
O. "Dwelling Unit" shall mean a room or rooms connected together, constituting a separate, independent housekeeping establishment for owner occupancy, rental or lease, and physically separated from any other rooms or dwelling units which may be in the same structure & containing independent cooking, sanitary and sleeping facilities.
P. "Building" shall mean any independent structure having a roof with structural support & more than 100 square feet in size and/or when any point of the structure is greater than ten feet in height. All buildings, permanent or temporary (including quonset hut type buildings covered with plastic), must meet setback requirements.
Q. "Food Service Facility" - a commercial establishment dispensing prepared food and/or beverages for consumption on or off the premises.
R. “Motor vehicle” means any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon stationary tracks, originally intended for use on public highways.
S. “Junk yard” means any business and any place of storage or deposit, whether in connection with another business or not, which has stored or deposited one or more unregistered motor vehicles which are not longer intended or in condition for legal use on the public highways, or used parts of motor vehicles or old iron, metal, glass, paper, cordage, or other waste or discarded or secondhand material which has been a part or intended to be a part of any motor vehicle, the sum of which parts or material shall be equal in bulk to two or more motor vehicles. "Junk yard” shall also include any place of business, storage or deposit of motor vehicles purchased for the purpose of dismantling and selling the vehicles for parts or for use of the metal for scrap and where it is intended to burn material which are parts
of a motor vehicle or cut up the parts thereof.
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