As used in this chapter:
(a) "Common Areas and facilities" includes the following parts of the condominium property:
(1) The land described in the declaration;
(2) All other areas, facilities, places, and structures that are not part of a unit, including, but not limited to:
A. The foundations, columns, girders, beams, supports, supporting walls, roofs, halls, corridors, lobbies, stairs, stairways, fire escapes, entrances, and exits of buildings;
B. The basement, yards, gardens, parking areas, garages, and storage spaces;
C. The premises for the lodging of janitors or persons in charge of the property;
D. Installations of central services such as power, light, gas, hot and cold water, heating, refrigeration, air conditioning, and incinerating;
E. The elevators, tanks, pumps, motors, fans, compressors, ducts, and, in general, all apparatus and installations existing for common use;
F. Such community and commercial facilities as may be provided for in the declaration;
G. All other parts of the condominium property necessary or convenient to its existence, maintenance, and safety, or normally in common use, or that have been designated as common areas and facilities in the declaration or drawings.
(b) "Condominium development" means condominium property in which two or more condominium units, together with undivided interests in the common areas and facilities of the property, are offered for sale pursuant to a common promotional plan.
(c) "Condominium instruments" means the declaration and accompanying drawings and plans, the bylaws of the unit owner's association, any contracts pertaining to the management of condominium property, and all other documents, contracts, or instruments establishing ownership of or exerting control over a condominium property or unit.
(d) "Condominium property" means land, all buildings, improvements, structures on the land, all easements, rights, and appurtenances belonging to the land and all articles of personal property submitted to the provisions of this chapter.
(e) "Condominium Unit" means real property, portions of which are designated as a part of the condominium property, consisting of one or more rooms on one or more floors of a building which is designated as a unit in the declaration submitted pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5311.
(f) "Condominium Unit Owner" means a person who possesses a fee simple estate or a ninety-nine year leasehold estate, renewable forever, in a condominium unit, together with an appurtenant undivided interest in the common areas and facilities.
(g) "Declaration" or "Condominium Declaration" means the written instrument by which property is submitted pursuant to the provisions of Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4311, and any and all amendments to the declaration.
(h) "Developer" means any person who, directly or indirectly, sells or offers for sale condominium ownership interest in a condominium development, including the declarant of a condominium development and any successor to the declarant who stands in the same relation to the condominium development as the declarant, and including any agent thereof.
(i) "Elderly Tenant" means any tenant who is sixty-five years of age or older.
(j) "Disabled Tenant" means any tenant who has a physical or mental impairment which limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual.
(k) “Public offering Statement” means a document provided by the developer which discloses the characteristics of the condominium development.
(l) "Tenant" means any person who occupies or has a leasehold interest in an apartment or condominium development under a lawful rental agreement, whether oral or written, express or implied.
(m) "Unit owners association" means an organization of all condominiums and owners in a condominium property that administers the condominium property.
(Ord. 1999-26. Passed 3-22-99.)