1303.03 LETTER "C".
   (a)    "CABO" means the Council of American Building Officials Building Code as amended.
   (b)    "Ceiling height" means the height from the finished floor to the finished ceiling, or when there is no finished ceiling, the height from the finished floor to the underside of the exposed secondary framing next above the floor.
   (c)    "Cellar" means that portion of a building wholly below or with less than half of its ceiling height above the average finished grade of the adjoining ground. (See "Basement", Section 1303. 02 (b))
   (d)    "Change of use" or "change of occupancy" means an alteration by change of use or occupancy in a building heretofore existing, to a new use group or from one subgroup to another subgroup in the same general use group, which imposes other special provisions of law governing building construction, equipment or exits.
   (e)    "Concrete" means a mixture of Portland cement, fine aggregate, course aggre gate and water.
   (f)    "Controlled materials" means materials which are scientifically selected, graded, proportioned and tested to produce specified results.
   (g)    "Cost", as applied to the cost of construction, building operation or building equipment, means the cost in money of the material, the cost or value of the labor and all other costs entering into the construction, building operation or building equipment, including the planning in connection therewith.
   (h)    "Court" means an open, uncovered and unoccupied space partially or wholly surrounded by the walls of a building.
   (i)    "Court, enclosed" or "inner court" means a court surrounded on all sides by the exterior walls of a building or any such walls and an interior lot line.
   (j)    "Court, outer" means a court having at least one side open to a street, yard or other permanent open space.
   (k)    "Cubic content" (cube or cubage) of a building means the actual cubic space enclosed within the outer surfaces of the outside or enclosing walls and contained between the outer surfaces of the roof and six inches below the finished surfaces of the lowest floors and includes, but is not limited to, the volume contained in dormers, penthouses, vaults, enclosed appendages and one-half of the volume contained in porches, but does not include the volume contained in courts and light shafts which have no roof, or the volume contained in outside steps, areaways, cornices and parapet walls.
   (1)    "Curb level" means the elevation of the street grade as established by the Municipal authorities.
   (m)    "Curb level", as a datum for the depth of an excavation or for grading, means the elevation of the street, as established by the Municipal authorities, nearest to the point of excavation or grading. When the point of excavation is equally distant from two or more streets, the curb level is the average of the elevations, so established, of the street grades nearest to such point.
(Ord. 219-1986. Passed 11-10-86.)