For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE. A building or structure, the use of which is incidental to that of the main building or structure on the same lot.
APPROVED. Approved by the Building Official under the provisions of this subchapter or the rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, or approved by an authority designated by law or by this subchapter.
BASEMENT. A portion of a building that is partly underground and that has less than half its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground. A BASEMENT is counted as a story for purpose of height regulations. Also referred to as cellar.
BUILDING. Any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter, or protection of people, animals, or property.
BUILDING OFFICIAL. The person designated by the Village Council to enforce the provisions of this subchapter.
COMMERCIAL UNIT. Any building or structure, or part thereof that contains retail business, services, or office space.
DWELLING. Any structure wholly or partly used or intended for living or sleeping by human occupants, other than temporary housing, hotels and rooming houses as hereinafter defined. Tents, cabins, trailers or trailer coaches are deemed not to be dwellings.
DWELLING UNIT. One or more rooms designed for or used for habitation and having only one kitchen or kitchenette.
EXIT. The egress or pathway out from any point in a building along a continuous and unobstructed line of travel, leading to a street, open space or court connecting to a public thoroughfare.
EXTERIOR PROPERTY AREA. All area on the premises outside a structure used for human habitation.
GARBAGE. Putrescent animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
HOTEL. Every building or structure kept, used, maintained as, advertised as or held out to the public to be a place where sleep or rooming accommodations are furnished for hire or are used or maintained for the accommodation of quest, lodgers or roomers.
INOPERABLE VEHICLE. An inoperable vehicle is any vehicle as defined in R.C.§ 4511.01, regardless of its status as a collector’s or historical vehicle, that is any of the following:
(1) Dismantled;
(2) Unlicensed;
(3) Missing its tires, wheels, doors, windshields, fenders, bumpers, body panels, hood, engine, transmission or battery;
(4) Damaged or wrecked in such a manner as to be declared a total loss by the owner’s insurance company; or
(5) Cannot be started.
INFESTATION. The presence within or contiguous to a dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming house, rooming unit, or premises, of insects, rodents, vermin or other pests.
KITCHEN. Space at least five feet wide and at least 60 square feet in floor area that is used for cooking or preparation of food. A KITCHEN is deemed a habitable room.
KITCHENETTE. Space less than five feet wide or less than 60 square feet in floor area, used for cooking or preparation of food. A KITCHENETTE is not deemed a habitable room.
MULTIPLE DWELLING. A building containing two or more dwelling units or rooming units.
OCCUPANT. Any person over one year of age, living, sleeping, cooking or eating in, or having actual possession of, a dwelling unit.
OPERATOR. Any person who has charge, care or control of a multiple residence or rooming house, in which dwelling units or rooming units are let or offered for occupancy.
OWNER. Any person in legal control of a premises or building. That person may be the owner of the freehold of the premises or lesser estate therein, a mortgagee or vendee in possession, assignee of rents, receiver, executor, trustee, lessee or other person.
PLUMBING SYSTEM. Pipes, fixtures and other apparatus for supplying water for consumption or for the conveyance of waste and drainage.
PREMISES. A lot, plot or parcel of land, including any buildings and structures thereon.
PUBLIC SEWER. Sewer operated by a public authority or public utility and available for public use.
ROOMING HOUSE. Any dwelling or that part of a dwelling containing one or more rooming units, which may contain common cooking, food storage and eating facilities not within the rooming unit, which space is let for compensation by the resident owner of resident operator to three or more people other than the spouse, children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents or siblings of said owner or operator; but not including a hotel, rest, convalescent or nursing home. Dwellings in which space is left to two or fewer people shall not be deemed a rooming house, nor shall hotels licensed under R.C. §§ 3731.01 et seq.
ROOMING UNIT. Any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking or eating purposes.
RUBBISH. Non-putrescent solid waste, combustible or non-combustible.
SEWAGE. Liquid or slurry from any plumbing fixture or equipment, containing animal or vegetable matter or industrial or commercial wastes.
STRUCTURE. Anything built or constructed, including prefabricated and modular systems and mobile homes.
SUPPLIED FACILITIES. Facilities paid for, furnished or provided by, or under the control of an owner or operator.
SUITABLE CONDITION. Conditions of any structures or premises that does not violate the provisions of this chapter.
TRASH. All combustible and noncombustible waste material or garbage. See also RUBBISH.
WASTES. Burnable and non-burnable trash, rubbish and garbage.
WEEDS. Grasses, annual plants and vegetation other than trees or shrubs, excluding cultivated lawns, flowers and gardens.
WORKMANLIKE, STATE OF MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR. Maintenance and repair that are made in a reasonably skillful manner as an ordinary person would understand the term “reasonably skillful.” The Building Official is deemed an “ordinary person.”
(Ord. 1271-13, passed 7-1-2013)