For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions are established:
a. Public spaces: All those spaces intended for public use or enjoyment, such as municipal parks, children's parks, sports parks, sports fields, multi-sport complexes (polideportivos), civic plazas, green areas, gardens, boulevards, communal areas of residential developments and neighborhoods, public protection zones, green areas within roundabouts and islands on canton roads, riverbanks and similar areas, and easements (servidumbres) that are for public use.
b. Boulevards: Urban spaces that are characterized by having a wide road profile, generally with trees, intended for pedestrian mobility, recreation, and leisure for people.
c. Visual polluter: A person is considered a visual polluter who writes, displays, traces drawings or emblems, affixes papers or posters on the exterior of a construction, public building, wall, movable property, traffic signal, utility poles, or on any other object located visibly on or from the public thoroughfare, in public spaces, affecting the aesthetics and safety of the place.
d. Urban furniture (mobiliario urbano): Those elements and structures located in public spaces intended for the general enjoyment of users, for the improvement of the aesthetics and the conditions of the public spaces of the canton, namely: benches, tables, ranchos, waste receptacles, drinking fountains, water features, street lamps, luminaires, reflectors, special cabinets, signs, signage, works of art, among others.
e. Pedestrian pathways (pasos peatonales): Circulation axis intended exclusively for safe pedestrian traffic that forms part of the right-of-way corresponding to sidewalks, with the incorporation of green areas, equipment, and special treatment of its ground surfaces.
f. Sports parks: Areas conditioned for the practice of any sport, such as football fields, basketball courts, swimming pools, athletics tracks, and the like.
g. Bio-healthy park and calisthenics park: Understood as outdoor spaces where equipment is installed for the practice of physical activities, commonly known as outdoor gyms, and which have machines for performing exercises in different modalities or structures, usually made of tubes, that allow calisthenics exercises (a system of physical exercises using one's own body weight).
h. Children's park: Also known as children's playgrounds or playgrounds, they are facilities designed specifically for the use and enjoyment of the child population. They usually have slides, swings, seesaws, among others.
i. Municipal parks: Areas intended for the passive or active recreation of users, in accordance with the use for which they were designed or for which they are intended.
j. Dog parks: Public spaces intended for canines living in urban areas, in the company of their owners, to meet their needs for leisure and well-being, under safety conditions.
k. Landscaped areas (zonas ajardinadas): Specific areas planted with flowering or decorative plants.
l. Green areas (zonas verdes): Unbuilt public land partially or totally covered with vegetation (grass, trees, shrubs, and plants).
m. Easement (servidumbre): It is a real right that constitutes a real power over another's property to be used partially in some aspect. These are properties that have a limitation on their use by their owner, and this use is clearly defined, which may be a stormwater easement (servidumbre pluvial), road easement, right-of-way, among others. Normally, they appear as green areas.
n. Protection areas (áreas de protección): Those areas of forests or forest lands that, established by provisions of the law or by decree of the Executive Branch, are intended to protect soils, maintain and regulate the hydrological regime, or act as regulating agents for the climate or the environment.
o. Surface water bodies (cuerpos de agua superficiales): Any spring (manantial), river, stream (quebrada), creek, permanent or not, that normally flows continuously and whose flow level will depend on the time of year (dry or rainy); lake, lagoon, natural or artificial reservoir, peat bog, or swamp.
p. Neighborhood group (agrupación vecinal): A group of organized people from a community who have a common goal and work as a team to meet their objectives. They may be, but are not limited to: Specific and general Development Associations, Neighborhood Committees, Security Committees. Their work is voluntary and for the benefit of the community welfare.
q. Waste (residuo): Any solid, semi-solid, liquid, or gaseous material, whose generator or possessor must or needs to dispose of, and which can or must be valorized or treated responsibly or, failing that, be managed by appropriate final disposal systems.
r. Canines: That which is linked to a canine. A canine, meanwhile, is a dog: a four-legged mammalian animal that usually lives with humans as a pet.
s. Multi-sport complexes (polideportivos): Public spaces where several sports facilities are concentrated, intended for the practice and enjoyment of these.