(1) "Abatement" means the termination of any license or permit violation by lawful and reasonable means as determined by the licensing authority or his/her duly appointed representative.

(2) "Applicant" means any person who is applying for a license or permit issued pursuant to any license or permit ordinance.

(3) "Application" means any form designed by the licensing authority for use in securing a new license or permit or on a renewal basis.

(4) "Bath" means any container, receptacle, or facility used for refreshing, washing or soaking all or any part of the human body. The term includes, but is not limited to, a Finnish bath, hot tub, Japanese bath, sauna, Swedish bath, Turkish bath, and baths provided by air, steam, vapor, water, or electric cabinet.

(5) "Business premises" means the entire building in which an activity or business is located together with the entire tract of land under one ownership upon which the building is located.

(6) "Carnival" means every device, institution or assemblage of devices or institutions for the purpose of providing entertainment, amusement, sport, pastime or merriment for the patrons thereof and shall include roller coaster, merry-go-rounds, swings, Ferris wheel, games of shooting, throwing, pitching, phenomenal exhibitions or everything of like character.

(7) "Circus" means any institution whose general occupation is that of exhibiting wild animals, feats, horsemanship, animal stunts, acrobatic or aquatic sports for admission to which a fee is charged.

(8) "County" means Snohomish County.

(9) "Engaged in business" means, includes, and has reference to a particular occupation or continuing course of commercial activity in which a person is regularly or habitually engaged for the purpose of livelihood or gain.

(10) "Entertainment" means any act or event causing amusement, diversion or the agreeable passing of time.

(11) "Examiner" means the county hearing examiner or other hearing examiner appointed by the Snohomish County council.

(12) "Fire marshal" means the Snohomish county fire marshal or any of his authorized representatives.

(13) "Float" means (1) with respect to boating tournaments or exhibitions, any anchored man-made structure unattached to the shore where any vessel may dock; or (2) with respect to parades, a low, flat, decorated vehicle for carrying exhibits, tableaux, etc. in a parade.

(14) "Health officer" means the health officer or any authorized representative of the county health department.

(15) "Idling speed" means that speed of any motorboat while underway while its propulsion machinery is set at the machine’s slowest possible speed.

(16) "Length" as it refers to vessels means the overall distance measured in a straight line parallel to the centerline from the foremost part of the vessel to the aftermost part of the vessel, excluding bowsprits, bumpkins, rudders, outboard motors and brackets, and similar fittings and attachments.

(17) "License" means any document issued by the licensing authority which authorizes a person to conduct an activity in Snohomish county as provided by this title.

(18) "Licensee" means any person to whom a license or renewal of license has been issued pursuant to this title.

(19) "Licensing authority" means the duly elected auditor of Snohomish county or any duly authorized representative.

(20) "Massage" means the treatment of a human body by another person by rubbing, kneading, hitting or any other manipulation, including the use of equipment, machinery, or appliances in connection with the foregoing.

(21) "Massage parlor" means any place where massages are given or furnished for, or in expectation of, any fee, compensation or monetary consideration.

(22) "Motorboat" means any vessel underway under propulsion in whole or in part by machinery. The term shall include seaplanes while taxiing and/or while otherwise not subject to any valid state or federal law or regulation governing the operation of seaplanes.

(23) "Operator" means any person in actual physical control of any vessel.

(24) "Owner" means any person having an interest in or right of possession of any property or business, or any person having control, custody or possession of an animal.

(25) "Parade" means any march or procession consisting of people, animals, bicycles, vehicles in excess of 10 in number or combinations thereof, except wedding processions and funeral processions, upon any county road, sidewalk, alley or other county property which does not comply with normal and usual traffic, regulations or controls.

(26) "Permit" means any document issued by the licensing authority which authorizes a person to conduct an activity in Snohomish County as provided by this title.

(27) "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, joint stock company, corporation, association, trust, estate, limited liability company, limited liability partnership or other legal entity.

(28) "Property" means any tangible property including but not limited to goods, wares, merchandise, animals, livestock, and land.

(29) "Public bathhouse or hot tub" means any place where baths or hot tubs of any kind are given or furnished to the public for or in expectation of a fee or other compensation.

(30) "Public bathhouse or hot tub employee" means any person who works for a public bathhouse or hot tub.

(31) "Public event/assembly" means any gathering or assembly of 100 or more persons who have been charged admission or made a contribution towards the costs of such gathering or assembly at a single place for the purpose of amusement, entertainment, education or similar common purpose. Such definition shall not include any assembly or gathering conducted for religious, political, or other constitutionally protected purpose.

(32) "Race-type boat" means any motorboat operated at a speed in excess of 35 miles per hour.

(33) "Rowboat" means a small boat propelled by the use of oars or paddles.

(34) "Run" means a sponsored, organized procession to contend in a race consisting of people, bicycles, wheelchairs, other non-motorized vehicles, or combinations thereof containing 10 or more persons upon a county road, sidewalk, alley or other county property. "Run" shall not include any training event or race participated in solely by means of a bona fide school track team or teams.

(35) "Safety buoy" means any buoy established as herein provided and constructed to conform to the State Uniform Waterway Marking System.

(36) "Safety buoy line" means the straight line between any two safety buoys or the straight line between any safety buoy and the point on the shoreline closest to such safety buoys.

(37) "Sailboat" means any vessel propelled by sail or in part by sail and in part manually.

(38) "Sheriff" means the sheriff of Snohomish county or any duly appointed deputy sheriff of Snohomish county.

(39) "Shoreline" means the land bordering any existing body of water.

(40) "Vessel" means any type of watercraft used or capable of being used as a means of marine transportation.

(41) "Visible" as it refers to the hours of darkness, means capable of being seen on a dark night with a clear atmosphere; as it refers to the daylight hours, means capable of being seen on a dull day with the atmosphere clear of fog, haze, or rain.

(42) "Water-ski" means to plane over the water with or without any floating device while being towed by any vessel. The term shall include water-skiing, freeboarding, aquaplaning and similar devices and/or activities.

(43) "Wharf" means any manmade structure attached to the shore and to which any vessel may dock.