For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
ADMINISTRATOR: The Frazee City Council, or such person as the City Council designates, in writing, to carry out the responsibilities of the Administrator as provided by this chapter.
DWELLING: Any building or other permanent or temporary structure, including a manufactured or mobile home, which is wholly or partly used, or intended to be used, for living or sleeping by human occupants.
LOCAL PROPERTY MANAGER: A natural person residing within fifty (50) miles of the City who is authorized by the rental unit owner to make decisions for the owner about rental, occupancy and maintenance of the rental unit.
REGISTRATION HOLDER: A person or entity to whom registration for a rental unit is issued under this chapter.
RENT, LEASE, LET OR SUBLET: The leasing of a rental unit to a nonowner for a fixed or nonfixed period of time, and shall include lease to buy, unrecorded contract for deed, installment sales, purchases and other similar arrangements whereby nonpayment of a periodic payment means the occupants may be evicted without the necessity of either a statutory mortgage foreclosure procedure, a statutory termination of contract for deed procedure, or a statutory repossession procedure.
RENTAL PROPERTY: Any rental unit and the real property upon which it is located.
RENTAL UNIT OR RESIDENTIAL RENTAL UNITS: Any house, apartment, condominium, townhouse, manufactured home, mobile home, mobile or manufactured home lot, room, or group of rooms constituting or located within a dwelling and forming a single habitable unit.
SHALL AND MUST; SHOULD AND MAY: "Shall" and "must", as used in this chapter, are each mandatory. "Should" and "may", as used in this chapter, are each permissive or directory. (Ord. 151, 9-10-2018)