The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

administrator means the city manager or his designee who is responsible for administering this article.

artificial lighting or illumination means light emanating from a manmade device, which includes at least one lamp.

beach means that area of unconsolidated material that extends landward from the mean low-water line to the place where there is marked change in material or physiographic form or to the line of permanent vegetation, usually the effective limit of storm waves, as is defined in chapter 16B-33, Florida Administrative code.

footcandle means a measure of light intensity equal to one lumen per square foot.

hatchling means any species of sea turtle, within or outside of a nest, which has recently hatched from an egg.

Jurisdictional boundary means the area of the beach and land extending landward from the beach along land adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean.

Lamp means a manmade device emanating light, including but not limited to incandescent, tungsten-iodine (quartz), mercury vapor, fluorescent, metal halide, neon, high-pressure sodium and low-pressure sodium.

low-profile lighting means a light fixture which places the source of light no higher than 48 inches off the ground and which is designed in such a way that light is directed downward from a hooded light source.

Mechanical raking means the act of raking the beach with a motor-powered vehicle and a rake with prongs that are greater than three inches long or what may be allowed by the state department of environmental protection following a storm.

new development means new construction and remodeling of existing structures when such remodeling includes the alteration of exterior lighting.

photometrics means charts, which are normally provided with lighting sales literature, that describe the characteristics of the illumination cast by the lamps discussed in that literature.

Post-emergent hatchling means a hatchling sea turtle that has successfully emerged from its incubation site and must traverse the open beach and surf.

sea turtle means any species of marine turtle, including Caretta caretta (loggerhead turtle), Chelonia mydas (green turtle), and Dermochelys coriacea (leatherback turtle), using county beaches as a nesting habitat.