17-1-101. DEFINITIONS.
Whenever any words or phrases used in this Title are not defined herein, but are defined in related sections of the Utah Code or the West Valley City Municipal Code (including but not limited to Title 7), such definitions are incorporated herein and shall apply as though set forth herein in full, unless the context clearly indicates a contrary intention. Words not defined in any code shall have their ordinarily accepted meanings within the context in which they are used.
Unless a contrary intention clearly appears, words used in the present tense include the future, the singular includes the plural, the term “shall” is always mandatory, and the term “may” is permissive. The following terms as used in this Title shall have the following meanings:
(1) “Alcoholic beverage licenses” means alcohol licenses issued pursuant to Part 17-2-100P.
(2) “Application” means a written request for the issuance of a license in accordance with this Title.
(3) “Business” means and includes all trades, occupations, professions, or activities undertaken for the purpose of gain or profit. “Business” does not include an employee rendering service to an employer unless otherwise provided in this Title.
(4) “Business Licensing Division” or “Division” means the Business Licensing Division of West Valley City.
(5) “City” means West Valley City.
(6) “Conveyance” means any means of transporting people or goods, including but not limited to motor vehicles, bicycles, carts, and other similar devices or things.
(7) “Director” means the City Treasurer, Director of the Business Licensing Division, or any City official authorized to act in such a role.
(8) “Employee” means all individuals who work for compensation and who are subject to the direction or control of an employer.
(9) “Health Department” means the Salt Lake County Health Department.
(10) “Hearing Board” or “License Hearing Board” shall mean the License Hearing Board of West Valley City created and governed by this Title.
(11) “Licensee” means the person who has obtained any type of license authorized by this Title, including employees, agents, or representatives of said person.
(12) “Peddler” means any person who, uninvited, goes upon the premises of a private residence in the City and either carries merchandise for sale or offers to perform services for compensation.
(13) “Peddling” means the activities ordinarily performed by a peddler.
(14) “Place of business” means each separate location maintained or operated by the licensee, whether or not under the same name, within the City from which the licensee engages in business.
(15) “Planning and Zoning Division” means the Planning and Zoning Division of West Valley City.
(16) “Police Department” means the West Valley City Police Department.
(17) “Qualified facility” or “temporary accommodation facility” means any of the following:
a. Any facility where lodging or overnight accommodations are offered, with or without compensation, that is built, converted, adapted, expanded, repurposed, or used after June 19, 2018, and does not meet the standards set forth in Section 7-7-117;
b. A homeless resource center;
c. A homeless shelter or overflow shelter; or
d. Any facility under the jurisdiction of or receiving funding from the Homeless Coordinating Committee created by Section 35A-8-601, Utah Code Annotated 1953.
(18) “Specified anatomical areas” means:
a. Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttock, and female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola; and
b. Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.
(19) “Specified sexual activities” means:
a. Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal;
b. Acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse, or sodomy; or
c. Fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, or female breast.
(20) “Stand” means any showcase, table, stall, cart, or other fixture or device that is used for the purpose of displaying, exhibiting, selling, or offering for sale goods or merchandise.
(21) “Tow truck” means a motor vehicle that has been altered or designed to permit the vehicle to tow vehicles.
(22) “Tow truck service” means the transportation of damaged, disabled, abandoned, or otherwise immobile vehicles by tow truck, including but not limited to wrecker service, tow car service, and garage tow truck service.
(23) “Vendor” means any person traveling from street to street to offer goods for sale or offering goods for sale on the public ways of the City, not including peddlers.
(24) “Vehicle” means any device by which people or property can be transported, including but not limited to devices moved by human power.
(25) “Violated,” “violating,” or “noncompliance” means that there exists reasonable cause to believe that any ordinance, code, statute, rule, regulation, or law has been or is being broken. “Violated,” “violating,” or “noncompliance” includes, but explicitly does not require, a guilty plea or criminal conviction.