§ 25-482. Definitions.

For the purpose of this section certain terms are defined as follows:

(1)

Agriculture means the tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture, forestry and gardening, including the keeping of animals and fowl and including any agricultural industry or business such as fruit packing plants, dairies or similar use.

(2)

Residential means a building containing dwelling units or rooming units, including single-family or two-family houses, multiple-family dwellings, mobile or manufactured homes, boarding houses or rooming houses, dormitories, fraternity or sorority houses or apartment hotels.

(3)

Business means a wholesale, retail or service activity established to carry on trade for a profit and that has paid a retail tax on inventory and a tax on equipment to the commissioner of revenue for two (2) preceding years.

(4)

Industrial means an enterprise engaged in the processing, manufacturing, compounding, assembling, packaging, treatment or fabrication of materials from raw or previously manufactured materials and that has paid a tax on machinery and tools for the two (2) previous years.

(5)

Notwithstanding the foregoing definitions of business and industrial, none of the following shall be considered business or industrial:

(a)

Outdoor advertising structures.

(b)

Agricultural use as defined above.

(c)

Residential use as defined above.

(d)

Transient or temporary activities.

(e)

Activities not visible from the main traveled way.

(f)

Activities more than five hundred (500) feet from the nearest edge of the right-of-way.

(g)

Activities conducted in a building principally used as a residence, including, but not limited to, home occupations class A and B as defined in section 25-40 of the Zoning Ordinance.

(h)

Railroad tracts and minor sidings.

(Res. No. 28-10-99, 10-19-99)

(Res. No. 28-10-99, 10-19-99)