Certain words in this chapter are defined for the purposes hereof as follows:
(a) Words in the present tense include the future; the singular number indicates the plural and the plural includes the singular.
(b) “Proprietor” means the owner, vendee, mortgagee or receiver, lessee or joint lessee, or an agent or any other person, firm or corporation directly in control of an entire building used for habitation, including appurtenant land and structures.
(c) “Family” means any number of individuals related to the nominal head of the household as husband or wife, son or daughter, father or mother, sister or brother or their spouses and dependent children living in a single-dwelling unit. A family may consist of one individual.
(d) "Dwelling" means a building intended or designed to be occupied by not more than two (2) families living separately and independently of each other.
(e) "Apartment house" means a building containing three (3) or more dwelling units or two or more dwelling units above the first or ground floor. For the purpose of applying this definition, dwelling units on the third (3rd) floor of any building originally constitutes a dwelling shall not be counted. The words "tenement house" and "apartment house" are synonymous.
(f) "Dwelling unit" means a group of rooms arranged, maintained or designed to be occupied by a single family and shall consist of a complete bathroom with toilets, lavatory and tub or shower facilities, a complete kitchen or kitchenette with approved cooking, refrigeration and sink facilities, and adequate living and sleeping facilities, all of which are used exclusively by such family and by any authorized persons occupying such dwelling unit with the family where the required facilities for a dwelling unit are not contiguous. The Board of Review shall determine whether such facilities constitute a dwelling unit. The words "dwelling unit", "apartment", and "suite" shall be considered synonymous.
(g) "Tenant" means the lessee or renter of a portion of a building used for habitation. Such portion of a building may include appurtenant land and structures.
(h) "Roomer" means a person, other than a member of the family of the proprietor or tenant, who rents or occupies one or more rooms, not constituting a complete dwelling unit, as a habitation in a dwelling or apartment house from a proprietor or a tenant. However, all persons who occupy a dwelling unit on the third (3rd) floor of any building originally constituting a dwelling shall be classed as "roomers".
(i) "Rooming house" means any building or part of any building, other than a hotel, occupied in such a manner that certain rooms, not constituting a complete dwelling unit, are leased or rented to roomers by a proprietor or a tenant under the following conditions:
(1) A building in which rooms are rented to one (1) or more roomers by a proprietor who does not reside in the building;
(2) A building in which rooms are rented to two (2) or more roomers by any tenant of the building;
(3) A building in which rooms are rented to one (1) or more roomer on the third (3rd) floor;
(4) A building containing only one (1) dwelling unit in which rooms are rented to three (3) or more roomers by a proprietor occupying such a dwelling unit;
(5) A building containing more than one (1) dwelling unit in which rooms are rented to two (2) or more roomers by a proprietor occupying one of such dwelling units. For the purpose of this Chapter, "rooming house" includes motels, motor courts, lodging houses, tourist homes; shelters and halfway houses not meeting the requirements of a "hotel".
(j) "Hotel" means a building originally designed for hotel purposes and meeting all requirements of State and City laws, rules and regulations, in which all or part thereof is occupied, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to transient guests and in which five (5) or more rooms are used for the accommodation of such guests. For the purpose of this Chapter, "hotel" includes motels and motor courts meeting these requirements.
(k) "Rent" means or includes the words "offer to rent", "lease", "let" or "hire".
(l) "Basement" means a space with a floor level two feet (2 ft.) or more below adjoining ground, but having less than half its clear height below adjoining ground. A basement shall be deemed a story when the ceiling is more than four feet six inches (4 ft. 6 in.) above adjoining ground.
(m) "Cellar" means a space having half or more than half of its clear height below adjoining ground.
(n) "Foster home" means any building or part of any building occupied in such manner that a child or children under the age of eighteen years (18 yrs.) and not a member of the family or related to member of the family by blood or marriage are boarded, kept or maintained for compensation.
(o) "Foster child" means any child under the age of eighteen years (18 yrs.) and not a member of the family or related to a member of the family by blood or marriage who is boarded, kept or maintained for compensation by such family.
(p) An "aged" or "infirm" person is an individual who, by reason of his age, can no longer perform the usual physical or mental functions of a normal person in full possession of his mental or physical faculties, or who, through a physical or mental defect, is unable to perform the necessary acts usually performed by a normal person in full possession of his mental or physical faculties, or one who by reason of immaturity, physical or mental defects or ailments is unable to perform such acts as may be necessary for their preservation of his life or person in an emergency.
(Ord. 5641-86. Passed 5-19-86.)
(Ord. 5641-86. Passed 5-19-86.)