For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) BUSINESS BUILDING means any structure, whether public or private, regardless of the type of material used in its construction, located within the boundaries of the city that is adapted to the occupancy for transaction of business, whether vacant or occupied, for the rendering of professional services, for the display, sale or storage of goods, wares or merchandise, or for the performance of work or labor, including hotels, rooming houses, beer parlors, office buildings, public buildings, stores, markets, restaurants, grain elevators and abattoirs, warehouses, workshops and factories.
(2) DIRECTOR means the director of the department designated by the city manager to enforce and administer this chapter and includes representatives, agents, or department employees designated by the director.
(3) OPENING means and refers to any opening in the foundation, side, or walls of any business building, including roof, chimney eaves, grills, windows, sidewalk grates, and sidewalk elevators, through which a rat may pass.
(4) PERSON means any owner, occupant, agent, individual, partnership, or corporation, or any other person in custody of any business building.
(5) PREMISES means all business buildings, outhouses, sheds, barns, garages, docks, wharves, piers, grain elevators, and abattoirs, whether public or private, and any and all other structures used in connection with the operation of any business building.
(6) RAT HARBORAGE means any condition found to exist under which rats may find shelter or protection, and includes any defective construction that would permit the entrance of rats into any business building.
(7) RAT STOPPAGE means an inexpensive form of rat-proofing designed to prevent the ingress of rats into business buildings. It is essentially the closing or protecting of all openings in exterior walls and foundations or the gates in a sidewalk of business buildings with rat-proof materials installed in such a manner as to prevent rats from gaining entrance. (Ord. Nos. 7847; 27697)