§ 9-28. Definitions.

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

ENDANGERED SPECIES OF BIRD

Any species of bird listed as "endangered" and/or "threatened" pursuant to the Endangered Species Act, 16 USCS § 1533 and any amendments thereto.

OPERATE

To drive or physically control a motor vehicle, including sitting in the driver's seat of such motor vehicle with the keys in the ignition and the engine engaged whether or not the motor vehicle is moving, standing or parked.

SHORELANDS

That area within the Town of Brookhaven fronting, adjoining and/or adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean side of Fire Island (Great South Beach), fronting, adjoining and/or adjacent to the Long Island Sound, and fronting, adjoining and/or adjacent to the embayments of Long Island Sound that extend landward from the mean low water line to the seaward toe of a dune or bluff or, where there is no dune or bluff, 100 feet landward from the place where there is marked change in material or physiographic form or from the line of permanent vegetation, whichever is most seaward.