For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
HOUSING ACCOMMODATION. Includes improved and unimproved property and means a building, structure, lot or part thereof which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied as the home or residence of one or more individuals.
REAL ESTATE BROKER or REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON. An individual, whether licensed or not, who, for a fee, commission, salary or other valuable consideration, or who with the intention or expectation of receiving or collecting the same, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents or leases real estate, or the improvements thereon, including options, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate such an activity; or who advertises or holds himself or herself out as engaged in such activities; or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate a loan secured by mortgage or other encumbrances, upon a transfer of real estate; or who is engaged in the business of charging an advance fee or contracting for collection of a fee in connection with a contract whereby he or she undertakes to promote the sale, purchase, exchange, rental or lease of real estate through its listing in a publication issued primarily for such purpose; or an individual employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.
REAL ESTATE OPERATOR. Any individual or combination of individuals, labor unions, joint apprenticeship committees, partnership, associations, corporations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees in bankruptcy, receives or other legal or commercial entity, the county or any of its agencies, that is engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging, renting or leasing real estate, or the improvement thereon, including options, or that derives income, in whole or in part, from the sale, purchase, exchange, rental or lease of real estate; or an individual employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.
REAL PROPERTY. Includes buildings, structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, cooperatives, condominiums and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, or any interest in the above.
(Prior Code, § 96.02) (Ord. passed 7-17-1972)