Ord 2018-004/amending various sections of the San Marcos City Code for consistency with, or to complement concurrent adoption of the new San Marcos Development Code (“CodeSMTX”);

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City secretary means the person who holds the position of city secretary. Contractor means any individual, partnership, association, or corporation engaged in the business of installing or altering facilities within a public right-of- way. This term applies to any entity which represents itself to be engaged in this business, whether or not it is actually doing the work. Curb means a vertical or sloping structure located along the edge of a roadway, normally constructed integrally with the gutter, which strengthens and protects the pavement edge and clearly defines the pavement edge to vehicle operators. Curb cut means an opening in a curb to allow the roadway pavement to meet the pavement of a driveway approach or an intersecting roadway, or, where no physical curb exists, the length along the roadway edge where the transitional pavement exists or is proposed. Director of public works services means the person who holds the position of director of the city public works services division. Driveway approach means the transitional pavement between the roadway and abutting property, installed in a curb cut to provide vehicular access from the roadway to the abutting property. Engineer means a person duly authorized under the Texas Engineering Registration Act,as amended,to practice the profession of engineering. Gutter means the area of pavement adjacent to a curb,designed to transport stormwater runoff along a roadway. Inlet means an opening in a curb and/or gutter designed to intercept stormwater runoff flowing along a gutter. Intersection means the common area contained between the projected edge line of two or more roadways which join at any angle, whether or not one street actually crosses the other. Pedestrian way means a portion of a right-of-way, not on the roadway, usable for pedestrian traffic. Right-of-way means the publicly owned area between private property lines designated as an easement for a roadway, whether or not the roadway is actually installed. Roadway means that portion of the right-of-way designed and ordinarily used for vehicular travel, usually surfaced with a pavement.