For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPLICANT. Any person making application for a license under this chapter.
APPLICATION. A form with blanks or spaces thereon, to be filled in and completed by the applicant as his or her request for a license, furnished by the city and uniformly required as a prerequisite to the consideration for the issuance of a license for the rental of residential property.
CONTRACT FOR DEED. An executor contract for the conveyance of residential real property under which the seller provides financing for the purchase of the residential real property and under which the purchaser does or has a right to go into possession.
DWELLING. A building, wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, purposes by human occupants, but not including rest homes, convalescent homes, nursing homes, hotels or motels.
DWELLING, DUPLEX/TWO-FAMILY. A building on one lot with one legal description and one owner, which has been divided into two separate dwelling units with two separate entrances, intended for occupancy by two separate families.
DWELLING, MULTI-FAMILY. A building designed exclusively for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other, with separate housekeeping and separate cooking facilities for each.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY. A detached dwelling designed exclusively for occupancy by one family.
DWELLING UNIT. A room or group of rooms within a dwelling, forming a single habitable unit.
EGRESS. An arrangement of exit facilities to assure safe means of exit from a building with specific dimensions as required by the city.
FACILITIES. Licensed by the state as institutional occupancies or dormitories. May also be called a RESIDENCE or RESIDENTIAL BUILDING.
FAMILY. An individual or two or more persons related by blood, marriage, adoption and foster children.
FAMILY (FUNCTIONAL). A collective group of unrelated persons residing in a single dwelling unit, limited to not more than two adult persons, together with their traditional family members of any age. (See also the definition for UNRELATED PERSONS.)
FAMILY (TRADITIONAL). One or more persons related by blood or marriage residing in a single dwelling unit.
HEARING EXAMINATION BOARD. Includes Rental Housing Inspector, Council person, Zoning Administrator and Police Chief.
INSPECT ON COMPLAINT. An inspection initiated by a complaint filed by the owner, tenant, neighbor, concerned individual or the city.
LICENSE. A document issued by the city to an applicant permitting him or her to rent residential property.
LICENSE FEE. The money paid to the city pursuant to an application and prior to issuance of a license to rent residential property.
LICENSEE. An applicant who, pursuant to his or her application, holds a valid, current, unexpired and unrevoked license from the city allowing him or her to rent residential property.
MANAGER, CARETAKER. Any person who has charge, care or control of a structure, or part thereof, in which rental dwelling units are let.
NUISANCE. Any of the following:
(1) Any public nuisance known as common law or inequality jurisprudence, or recognized by state statutes or the city’s ordinances;
(2) Any public nuisance which may prove detrimental to children whether in a building, on the premises of a building or upon an unoccupied lot. This includes, but is not limited to, any abandoned wells, shafts, basements or excavations; abandoned refrigerators and other appliances; unlicensed or inoperable motor vehicles; or any structurally unsound fences or structures; or any lumber, garbage, rubbish or debris which may become a hazard for inquisitive minors; and/or
(3) Any other activity or situation that is dangerous to human life, detrimental to health or illegal.
OCCUPANT. Any person residing in a dwelling or dwelling unit.
OWNER. Any person, firm, corporation or agent, who alone, jointly or severally with others shall be in actual possession of, or have charge, care or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit.
RENT. Any consideration paid for the exclusive use of the dwelling unit, including, but not limited to, money, services, or a combination thereof, paid or delivered at fixed intervals periodically agreed upon.
RENTAL HOUSING INSPECTOR. Person appointed by the city to inspect rental property for compliance purposes.
RENTAL PROPERTY. Living units rented on a month to month basis or greater. The property may include single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes or multi-family units. Exempt from the definition shall be motels, hotels, boarding houses, bed and breakfast facilities and any facility exempt from city regulation due to state or federal rules and regulations.
RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY. Real property occupied, or intended to be occupied, by one to four families, if the purchaser intends to occupy the real property. RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY does not include property subject to a family farm security loan or a transaction subject to M.S. §§ 583.20 to 583.32, as they may be amended from time to time.
UNRELATED PERSONS. Two or more individuals who are not related by blood, marriage or adoption. For the purpose of this chapter, “related by blood” shall mean whole or half relations between a common ancestor or descendent, husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, stepchildren, legally adopted children, grandmother, grandfather, state assigned foster children, first cousin or any combination of the above persons.
(2001 Code, § 13.050) (Ord. 13, passed 6-2-2014)