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For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases are defined and shall be construed to have the following meaning:

“Authorized city representative” shall mean an officer, director, employee, or agent of the city of Cudahy, or an officer, director, employee, or agent of a licensed private pest control company that the city has previously entered into a contractual agreement with for the control and abatement of vectors.

“Beehive” (managed bees) or “nest” (feral bees) shall mean a colony of bees.

“District” shall mean the Greater Los Angeles County vector control district.

“Emergency situation” shall mean the presence of vectors, including but not limited to “killer bees,” on private property within the city that pose an imminent threat to the health, safety or welfare of the community.

“Feral bee” shall mean any wild honey bee, including, but not limited to, the Africanized honey bee, also known as the “killer bee.”

“Infestation” shall mean a colony or an established swarm of bees forming a colony.

“Public nuisance” shall mean any condition that endangers public health, safety and/or welfare.

“Swarm” shall mean a number of bees, including a queen, leaving a hive to start a new colony.

“Vector,” for the purposes of this chapter, shall mean any insect that poses a nuisance or danger to the public health and safety, and that potentially may transmit a disease-producing organism from one host to another, including, but not limited to, the following: Africanized and European honey bees, mosquitoes, midges (chironomids), and black flies (simulids). (Ord. 563 § 1. 2002 Code § 9-8.2).