<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 50-2. - Definitions.</div>
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               In the interpretation of this and succeeding department regulations or ordinances,
               the following terms unless otherwise defined therein, shall mean the following:
               
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               <span class="ital">County building.</span> A building owned, leased as lessor, or the area leased as lessee and occupied by
               the county.
               
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               <span class="ital">Department</span> means Cabarrus County Active Living and Parks Department composed of all county parks,
               senior centers and school parks.
               
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               <span class="ital">Employee.</span> A person who is employed by the County of Cabarrus, or who contracts with the county
               or a third person to perform services for the county, or who otherwise performs services
               for the county with or without compensation.
               
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               <span class="ital">Grounds.</span> An unenclosed area owned, leased, or occupied by the county.
               
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               <span class="ital">Foot path</span> or <span class="ital">trail</span> means any path or trail maintained for pedestrians.
               
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               <span class="ital">Park</span> or <span class="ital">parks</span> shall be deemed to include all aspects of any county park or school park.
               
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               <span class="ital">Parks system.</span> Any tract of land or body of water comprising part of the county's parks, playgrounds,
               natural areas, recreation areas, trails and greenways, and streams or other bodies
               of water.
               
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               <span class="ital">Participant</span> means any individual in a park or senior center either in a class or on a voluntary
               basis.
               
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               <span class="ital">Pedestrian</span> means a person on foot.
               
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               <span class="ital">Permit</span> means any written license issued by or under authority of the department, permitting
               the performance of a specified act or acts on park property.
               
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               <span class="ital">Person</span> means any natural person, corporation, company, association, joint stock association,
               joint venture, firm or partnership.
               
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               <span class="ital">Smoking.</span> The use or possession of a lighted cigarette, lighted cigar, lighted pipe, or any
               other lighted tobacco product.
               
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               <span class="ital">Tobacco product.</span> Any product containing, made, or derived from tobacco that is intended for human
               consumption, whether chewed, smoked, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed,
               or ingested by any other means, or any component, part or accessory of a tobacco product,
               including, but not limited to, cigarettes; cigars; little cigars; cheroots; stogies;
               periques; granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready-rubbed, and other smoking tobacco;
               snuff; snuff flour; Cavendish; plug and twist tobacco; fine-cut and other chewing
               tobacco; shorts; refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco; and
               other kinds and forms of tobacco. A tobacco product excludes any product that has
               been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for sale as a tobacco
               cessation product, as a tobacco dependence product, or for other medical purposes,
               and is being marketed and sold solely for such an approved purpose.
               
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               <span class="ital">Trespassing</span> consists of not only after hours entry into any of the facilities and grounds, but
               to any area closed inclusive in the facilities, as well as when someone is asked to
               leave the facility and will not.
               
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               <span class="ital">Universal "No Smoking and Use of Tobacco Products Prohibited" symbol.</span> A symbol consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette and a tobacco
               product enclosed in a red circle with a red bar across it.
               
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               <span class="ital">Vehicle</span> means any form of conveyance of any kind or nature (except baby carriages and nonmotorized
               bicycles or tricycles) including without limitation, motor vehicles, trailers of all
               types, campers, sleds, sleighs, pushcarts, or modes of transportation propelled solely
               by means of human or animal muscular power, including without limitation, horse-drawn
               carriages.
               
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               (Ord. of 6-17-91(2), Â§ 2; Ord. No. 2003-02, Â§ 2, 1-27-03; Ord. No. 2003-03, Â§ 2, 2-17-03;
               Ord. No. 2011-28, Â§ 1, 6-20-11; Ord. No. 2017-29, 5-15-17)
               
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            <p class="refcross0" block_type="hang"><b>Cross referenceâ€” </b>
               Definitions generally,<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH1GEPR_S1-2RUCODE" class="section-link" data-product-id="12658"> Â§ 1-2</a>.
               
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