halifax regional municipality land use by-law halifax mainland

"Mobile Home" means any portable dwelling having no permanent foundation and
supported by wheels, jacks, or similar supports being used as a conveyance upon public
streets or highways and duly licensable as such and designed and constructed to permit
occupancy for dwelling and sleeping quarters;
"Motel" means a building for transient overnight occupancy containing a series of or
several jointed units;
“Motor Vehicle Sales” means any land used for the sale of motor vehicles and does
not include servicing, repair or painting of motor vehicles or sale of motor vehicle
parts.
"Multiple Dwelling" includes an apartment house, boarding house, and rooming
house;
"Nonconforming Use" shall have the same meaning as contained in the Municipal
Government Act as may be amended from time to time.
"Northwest Arm Water Access Area" means the area shown on map ZM-24
attached to this By-law. (RC-May 1/07;E-Jul 21/07)
"Nude" means the showing of human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks,
with less than full opaque covering, or the showing of a female breast with less than a
full opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the areola of the breast;
"Occupied" includes "designed to be occupied" and "intended to be occupied";
"Open Space" includes landscaped open space and recreational space;
"Owner" means a part owner, joint owner, tenant in common or joint tenant of the
whole or any part of any land or building and includes a trustee, an executor, a
guardian, an agent, a mortgagee in possession, or other person having the care or
control of any land or building in the event of the absence or disability of the person
having the title thereof;
"Permanent Open Space" means:
(i) publicly-owned land, the use of which as an open space is established in
perpetuity by deed of trust or otherwise; or
(ii) cemeteries; or
(iii) land permanently covered by water;
"Population Density" means the number of persons occupying a building(s) on a lot
per one acre of gross lot area. In determining population density, the number of
persons occupying a building(s) on a lot shall be calculated on the basis of one person
for each habitable room contained therein;
"Professional Person" means a person who is a member of one or more of the
following professions and who is licensed to practice same:
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