For the purposes of this Code, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning set forth in the following sections:
(a) "Approved" means approved by the Building Commissioner of the City of Brooklyn pursuant to this Code, or approved by any other authority designated by City ordinances to give approval to the matter in question.
(b) "Building Commissioner", "Building Official": Building Commissioner means the appropriate official from the Division of Building, Engineering, and Inspection. Building Official means the appropriate official from the Division of Building, Engineering, and Inspection or the Division of Fire of the City of Brooklyn and includes their authorized agents or representatives.
(c) "Building" means any roofed structure designed or used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind or a combination of such uses.
(d) "Dwellings":
(1) 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.
(2) Hotel/Motel: Any building that does not contain any short-term rental units and that contains guestrooms, intended or designed to be occupied, or which are rented or hired out to be occupied, for sleeping purposes by guests not to exceed thirty days.
(3) One-family dwelling: A building arranged, intended, designed, or redesigned to contain one dwelling unit.
(4) Two-family dwelling: A building arranged, intended, designed, or redesigned to contain two dwelling units.
(5) Three-family dwelling: A building arranged, intended, designed, or redesigned to contain three dwelling units.
(6) Multi-family dwelling: A building arranged, intended, designed, or redesigned to contain four or more dwelling units.
(e) "Exterior property" means the open space on the premises and tree lawn areas and on the adjoining property and the accessory structure(s) under the control of the owner or operator of such premises.
(f) "Family" means an individual or two or more persons living together as a single housekeeping group in a dwelling unit. A single housekeeping group exists where the group of individuals share expenses and labor related to the maintenance of the dwelling unit and are living and eating together as a household.
(g) "Occupiable structure" means a building, structure or enclosed space that is used for purposes other than residential occupancy, including, but not limited to, the following: theaters, dance halls and nightclubs, businesses, retail stores, industrial, storage garages and sheds.
(h) "Operator" means any person who has charge, care or control of a building or part thereof in which dwelling units, short-term rentals or rooming units are let.
(i) "Owner" means the owner(s) or occupant(s) of the premises, including a purchaser in possession, a mortgagee or receiver in possession, a life tenant, a lessee or joint lessees of the whole thereof or any other person, firm, corporation or fiduciary in control of the premises.
(j) "Person" means a natural person, firm, partnership or corporation.
(k) "Premises" means a lot, parcel or plot of land including the buildings or structures thereon.
(l) "Rooming unit" means any room offered for consideration within a dwelling unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking or eating purposes.
(m) "Short-term rental" means a one-family dwelling, two-family dwelling, three-family dwelling or multi-family dwelling intended for use or advertised to be used by at least one short-term renter.
(n) "Short-term renter" means a person who pays consideration to reside in the same dwelling unit for a period of less than thirty days.
(ORd. 2021-20. Passed 10-25-21.)