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For the purposes of this Chapter, the following words and phrases shall be defined as follows:

Boat” means any vessel, except personal watercraft, designed to be propelled by human power, machinery, oars, paddles, wind action, or upon a sail for navigation on the water, including, but not limited to, canoes, rafts, sailboats, windsurfing boards, boats with electric trolling motors, boats with motors or unmotorized boats, rowboats, paddle boats or wading tubes.

Encroachment structures” are as defined in Chapter 9.14 of the Olathe Municipal Code.

Life saving device” means an United States Coast Guard approved Type I, Type II or Type III personal flotation device.

Motor vehicles” shall mean every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power including, but not limited to, automobiles, motorcycles, motor-driven cycles, motor homes, and motorized bicycles. Motor vehicles shall include any vehicle licensed to operate on public streets, roads or highways and shall include motorized off-road vehicles including, but not limited to, dirt bikes, go-carts, and snowmobiles. Motor vehicles shall not include motorized wheelchairs designed for and used by physically handicapped persons or segways used by physically handicapped persons when either is incapable of a speed in excess of fifteen (15) miles per hour.

Natural materials” means, but is not limited to, grass clippings, tree clippings, stumps, yard waste, animal waste, trash items, flowers, vegetables, landscaping, gardens, and wood piles.

Park Director or Director” means the City of Olathe, Kansas Director of Parks and Recreation or his/her designated representative.

Park Ranger” means the City of Olathe, Kansas Park Ranger(s).

Park Superintendent” means the City of Olathe, Kansas Park Superintendent or his/her designated representative.

Park(s) and recreational area(s)” means all City-owned park properties, to include but not be limited to public buildings, public parking lots, public trails, undeveloped and developed public parks and green spaces, public greenways, public open spaces, indoor or outdoor public recreational facilities, public swimming pools, public shelters, public restroom facilities, public water bodies, and/or other public natural areas.

Personal Watercraft” means a vessel of less than sixteen (16) feet in length, as manufactured, that uses a motor powering water jet pump as the primary source of motive power and that is designed to be operated by a person or persons sitting, standing or kneeling on the vessel rather than in the conventional manner of sitting or standing inside the vessel. The term includes, but is not limited to, Jet Ski, Waverunner and Sea Doo.

Public Lands” means any public street, public highway, public right-of-way, public building or other public property, including, but not limited to, City-owned park(s) and recreational area(s).

Smoke or smoking” is as defined in Section 6.20 of the Olathe Municipal Code.

Water body or bodies” means any lake, pond stream, creek, drainage way, waterway, wetland, or other area where water naturally flows and/or drains, including, but not limited to, water bodies within City-owned park(s) and recreational area(s).

Weapon” is as defined in Chapter 9.12.010 of the Olathe Municipal Code. (Ord. 14-43 § 1, 2014; Ord. 13-24 § 2, 2013.)