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HOTEL OR MOTEL: A building or group of buildings in which lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation and which is open to transient guests, in contradiction to a boarding house or lodging house. IMPROVEMENT LOCATION PERMIT: A permit that states that the proposed erection, construction, enlargement or improvement of property or structures referred to therein complies with the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance. INDUSTRIAL PARK: A tract of land that is planned and developed as a distinctive unit featuring landscaped open spaces and well designed structures to be used for research, offices, experimental and testing laboratories, light industrial storage and distribution facilities, and for necessary uses to the convenience of employees, and is controlled by an organization guaranteeing the continued maintenance of all commonly used areas and installations. INSTITUTION: Any home, orphanage, or other facility maintained or conducted by any group of persons, a firm, association, corporation or governmental body engaged in receiving and caring for dependent, neglected, handicapped or permanently disabled persons, or children in danger of becoming delinquent or in operating for gain a private business of boarding children who are unattended by parents or guardians, or persons in loco parentis. JOINT OWNERSHIP: Joint ownership among persons shall be constructed as one and the same owner for the purpose &imposing subdivision regulations. JUNKYARD: Any lot, parcel or tract of real estate, platted, or unplatted, at which personal property is or may be salvaged for reuse, resale or reduction or similar disposition and is owned, possessed, collected, accumulated, dismantled or sorted, including but not limited to used or salvaged rope, bags, paper matter; and property used for the dismantling, wrecking, storage, sale or dumping of two or more inoperative motor vehicles or their parts. This shall not include tractors, combines, pickers, disks, plows or other similar farm machinery that is owned by a farm operator and is used for parts replacement for machinery currently being used in the farming operation. /LrRISDICTIONAL AREA: The incorporated area within the town of Mooresville Indiana and any or all &the unincorporated territory within two miles of the town boundaries lying within Morgan County as designated on the map entitled "Jurisdictional Area" which is attached and hereby made a part of this ordinance. KENNEL: Any lot or premises on which more than five (5) or more dogs or cats that are commonly kept as household pets. Exception: a litter &pups or kittens not over five (5) months old. LIMITED ACCESS HIGHWAY: A highway to which abutting properties are denied access. LOADING AND UNLOADING BERTHS: The off-strect area required for the receipt or the distribution, by vehicle, of material or merchandise which in this ordinance is held to be a 12 foot by 75 foot loading space with a 14 foot height clearance.