(A) The provisions of this subchapter shall apply to all buildings or portions thereof used, or designed or intended to be used, for human habitation, except owner-occupied dwellings. For purposes of this chapter, OWNER shall include the record title-holder of the property in question or his or her child, parent, grandchild, heirs, successors, assigns or any spouse of those individuals.
(B) Dwellings, dwelling units, roominghouses and rooming units shall comply with all the requirements of this chapter.
(C) This chapter is designed to apply in situations where an owner, as defined in § 151.03 of this chapter, receives some financial benefit of one kind or another as a result of his or her allowing another individual to use or occupy real property, or a portion of that real property, for residential purposes.
(2005 Code, § 10-119) (Ord. passed 9-12-2005)