As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall be added to or amended and shall apply to the interpretation and enforcement of this code unless otherwise designated:
“Agent” means any person or persons eighteen years or older authorized by an owner to act on the owner's behalf.
“Code Enforcement Officer” means the Code Enforcement Officer of the city and shall carry the same status as Chief Code Enforcement Officer.
"Enforcement authority" means the Code Enforcement Officer of the city.
"Family" means one or more persons all related by blood, marriage or adoption.
"Guest" means a person who is a temporary resident (less than 25% of the time) of a dwelling unit and does not utilize the unit as an address for any purpose.
"Owner" means the person, group of persons, or legal entity identified as the real property owner on the most recent list prepared and maintained by the Bartholomew County Auditor's Office.
"Rental housing" means any room, dwelling unit, rooming unit, or portion thereof, let or intended to be let to a family or person for compensation which may include money or services and includes the sharing of expenses.
"Residential Rental Registration Program" means a program authorizing the registration of rental housing including dwellings that are subject to sale on contract and mobile home dwellings.
"Residential Rental Unit" means a premises, building, or portion thereof designed for occupancy for residential purposes, in which space is let by the owner or agent of the owner and made available for rent. The term shall exclude:
1. Travel trailers;
2. Recreational vehicles;
3. Transient occupancy in a hotel, motel or other similar lodging;
4. A single-family, owner occupied dwelling unit;
5. A group home or institutional residential home;
6. Federally subsidized and owned housing complexes which have multiple on-site units and which are owned and maintained by the federal government or local housing authority;
7 Scattered site Section 8 housing units administered solely by the local housing authority;
8. Transient multi-tenant student housing located at the Columbus Airpark.
“Tenant” means a person occupying a dwelling unit, other than a guest, or using the property as a legal address for any purpose. (Ord. 2-2018, 2018; Prior code § 11-1)