For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
ABANDONED VEHICLE. All motor vehicles or other vehicles in a state of disrepair which renders the vehicle incapable of being driven in its condition; or any motor vehicle that has not been moved or used for seven consecutive days or more and is apparently deserted.
BASEMENT. A portion of a building located partly underground, but having less than half its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of adjoining ground.
BUILDING. Any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property.
BUILDING CODE. All ordinances of the village affecting the construction of buildings and other structures including but not limited to the regulations contained in Chapter 150 of this Code of Ordinances.
BUILDING OFFICIAL. The official in charge is the Building Commissioner, Village of Bellwood.
CELLAR. A portion of a building located partly or wholly underground, and having half or more than half its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
CODE. The Municipal Code of the Village of Bellwood as enacted.
COMMON AREAS (EXTERIOR). The private roads and streets and private sidewalks adjacent thereto, landscaping, detention ponds, utility facilities, trash enclosures, playground equipment, swimming pools, tennis courts, basketball courts or any other recreational facilities, trail areas, parking areas, private drives, detached garages, lighting fixtures, signage, mail boxes, street benches, entrance monuments, perimeter fencing and such other improvements or structures from time to time or at any time located or constructed on a common area.
COMMON AREAS (INTERIOR). Any portion or part thereof of a multiple-family building having communal areas (laundry, furnace, storage rooms, hallways, stairways, meeting rooms) and all other areas located within a multiple-family building, outside of a dwelling unit. Interior common areas shall also include stoops, entrance doors, roofs, attics, balconies. Lighting fixtures, signage, railings, patios, storage areas, garages, exterior building surfaces, gutters and downspouts and any other areas of a multiple-family dwelling unit or multiple-family building to which the owner is directly responsible for the proper maintenance thereof.
CONDOMINIUM. Any dwelling unit under individual ownership in a multi-unit structure as provided in the Condominium Property Act of the Compiled Statutes of the State of Illinois.
CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION. Any organization or association which governs the operation of common areas or services for two or more condominiums.
DORMITORY. A room or group of rooms in any dwelling used for living and sleeping purposes by four or more persons.
DWELLING. A building containing one or more dwelling units used, intended or designed to be used, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied for living purposes.
DWELLING UNIT. A single unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
EXTERMINATION. The control and elimination of insects, rodents or other pests by eliminating their harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating or trapping; or by any other recognized legal pest elimination methods approved by the Comptroller.
FAMILY. Any number of persons each related to each of the others by blood, marriage or adoption, living and maintaining a common household in a dwelling unit; not more than three persons who are not related to each of the others by blood, marriage or adoption, living and maintaining a common household in a dwelling unit other than a detached single-family dwelling; or, not more than five persons who are not each related to each of the others by blood, marriage or adoption, living and maintaining a common household in a detached single-family dwelling owned by one or more of the occupants. For the purpose of this definition, MAINTAINING A COMMON HOUSEHOLD shall mean the joint occupancy and use of the entire dwelling unit and the facilities therein, with the exception of bedrooms, by all of the
residents. Any R-3 or R-4 Multiple-Family Residence District shall be limited to the following family classifications with the exceptions of convents, monasteries, rectories, and parish houses: one or more persons, each related to the other by blood, marriage, or adoption and living together in a single dwelling unit and maintaining a common household including domestic servants and not more than one gratuitous guest; and, not more than three unrelated persons living together in a single dwelling unit and maintaining a common household.
FIRE OFFICIAL. The official in charge is the Fire Chief of the Village of Bellwood.
FIRE PREVENTION CODE. All ordinances of the village pertinent to fire prevention including but not limited to Chapter 91 Alarm Systems of this Code of Ordinances.
FOOT CANDLE. The quantity of light reaching a surface. It is equal of the number of lumens divided by the square footage of the surface the lumens are covering, i.e., one lumen covering one square foot equals one foot candle.
GARBAGE. The word garbage shall mean any rejected or waste household food, offal, swill or carrion and every accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable matter that attends the preparation, use, cooking and dealing in, or storage of meats, fish, fowl, fruits or vegetables and any other matter of any nature, which are subject to decay, putrefaction and the generation of noxious or offensive gases or odor, or which during or after decay, may serve as breeding or feeding material for flies or other insects.
HABITABLE ROOM. A room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, meeting the net clear height requirements adopted by the village, excluding bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, pantries, foyers, corridors, closets, storage spaces or stairways.
INFESTATION. The presence within or around a dwelling of any insects, rodents, or other pests.
LUMEN. The quantity of light emitted by a light source.
MANAGING AGENT. Any person or firm, acting for another, with authority to rent, manage and/or make expenditures.
MULTIPLE-FAMILY BUILDING. For the purpose of this chapter, one or more residential buildings under one ownership, designed and built as a group of individual dwelling units, in which units may touch by virtue of common or party walls and floors and ceilings, and which contain two or more dwelling units per building. Each building that is separated by another building by virtue of a fire wall or fire separation assembly, and has its own address, shall be considered a separate building.
MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING UNIT. A unit within which a family resides which permits such family to live independently of any other family within a multi-family dwelling building.
OCCUPANT. Any person living, sleeping, cooking, or eating in, or having actual possession of, a dwelling unit or rooming unit, provided, however, that any child over one year and under 12 years of age shall be considered as one-half person for the purposes of this chapter.
OPERATOR. Any person who has charge, care, control or management of a multiple-family dwelling unit or multiple-family building, or part thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming units are let.
OWNER. Any person who alone, jointly or severally with others has legal title to any multiple- family building, or multiple-family dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or who has charge, care or control of any multiple-family building or multiple-family dwelling unit, as owner, or other person; or is an executor, administrator, trustee or guardian of the estate of the owner; is a mortgagee in possession, or is a senior officer or a trustee of the association of unit owners of a condominium or homeowners association. Owner shall also mean any condominium or homeowners association having the charge, care or control of any common area which is enclosed, part of, a portion, or the entire multiple- family building or multiple-family dwelling unit. Any person thus representing the actual owner shall be bound to comply with the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations pursuant thereto, to the same extent as if he or she were the owner.
PERSON. Any natural person, partnership, firm, trust, corporation or association. Whenever used with respect to any penalty, the term PERSON as applied to partnerships or associations, shall mean the partners or members thereof; and as applied to trusts or corporations, shall mean the trustees or officers thereof.
PLUMBING. Includes all of the following supplied facilities and equipment: gas pipes, gas-burning equipment, water pipes, garbage disposal units, waste pipes, water closets, sinks, installed dishwashers, lavatories, bathtubs, shower bath, installed clothes-washing machines, catch basins, drains, vents and any similar fixtures, together with all connections to water, sewers or gas lines.
ROOMING HOUSE. Any dwelling or that part of any dwelling containing one or more rooming units, in which space is let for compensation by the owner or occupant or operator to three or more persons who are not husband and wife, son or daughter, mother or father, sister or brother, grandparents, grandchildren, niece or nephew or domestic employees, not to exceed two in number of the owner or operator.
ROOMING UNIT. Any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping but no cooking purposes.
RUBBISH. All combustible and non-combustible waste materials except garbage.
SUPPLIED. Paid for, furnished or provided by or under the control of the owner-operator.
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING UNIT FOR RENT. Any detached or attached dwelling, including townhouses, that is designed for occupancy by one family only and that is not owner occupied and is let for compensation by the owner or operator to the occupant(s).
TOWNHOUSE. Any dwelling joined to another dwelling or dwellings at one or two sides by a party wall or walls and designed exclusively for the use or occupancy by one family of the internal space from lowest basement or floor level to roof.
TOWNHOUSE ASSOCIATION. Any organization or association that governs the operation of common areas of two or more townhouses.
(Ord. 7-7, passed 1-24-07; Am. Ord. 21-42, passed 12-15-21)