Definitions

Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter: (a) “Citation” means any notice, in a form to be adopted by the mayor, with the advice and consent of the municipal council, issued by the mayor’s office to a party who has failed to remove junk parts; (b) “Hearing” means an informal proceeding before the municipal council to determine contests of facts contained in a citation issued to a party concerning failure to remove junk parts, as well as any other mitigating factors; (c) “Junk parts” means any piece of equipment or part thereof, whether originally arriving on the island of Rota as an integrated part of another piece of equipment or complete within itself, that is discarded, abandoned, or otherwise left by the party or his agent who is responsible for its presence on the island; (d) “Notice” means a certified letter to the party’s address as shown on the party’s Commonwealth business license as well as personally delivered or posted at the place of doing business on the island of Rota, whether that is a job site or other type of establishment; (e) “Party” means a private citizen or company, whether incorporated or not, whether a partnership or not, who possesses, pursuant to 4 CMC § 1503, a business license to engage in business on the island; and (f) “Removal and disposal” means the actual and physical moving and transporting of junk parts off of the island of Rota, or out of its waters. Source: Rota LL 8-1, § 3.