For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context indicates or clearly requires a different meaning. Whenever the word "DWELLING", "DWELLING UNIT", "ROOMING HOUSE", "ROOMING UNIT", or "PREMISES" is used in this article, they shall be construed as though they were followed by the words, "or any part thereof".
"APPROVED." Constructed, installed, and maintained in accordance with the provisions of this code and other pertinent ordinances of the city, and with rules and regulations adopted.
"BASEMENT." Finished space below the first main floor of a building, having a ceiling not more than four (4) feet above the average outside ground level.
"BOARD." The Board of Zoning Adjustment and Appeals.
"DWELLING." Any building or structure or part thereof, used and occupied for human habitation or intended to be so used and appurtenances belonging thereto.
"DWELLING UNFIT." Any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling and forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating.
"GARBAGE." The animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.
"EXTERMINATION." The control and elimination of insects, rodents, or other pests by eliminating their harborage places by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, trapping, or by any other recognized and legal pest elimination methods approved by the Inspector.
"HABITABLE ROOM." A room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, or eating purposes, excluding bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, pantries, foyers, communicating corridors, closets, or storage spaces.
"INFESTATION." The presence within or around a dwelling, of any insects, rodents, or other pests.
"INSPECTOR." The Building Inspector of the city, or his authorized representative.
"MULTIPLE DWELLING." Any dwelling containing more than two (2) dwelling units.
"OCCUPANT." Any person, over one (1) year of age, living, sleeping, cooking, or eating in, or having actual possession of, a dwelling unit or rooming unit.
"OPERATOR." Any person who has charge, care, or control over a building, or part thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming units are let.
"OWNER." Includes a holder of any legal or equitable estate in the premises, whether alone or jointly with others, and whether in possession or not.
"PERSON." Includes any individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, or trust.
"PLUMBING." The art of installing in buildings the pipes for distributing the water supply, the fixtures for using water and drainage pipes for removing waste water and sewage, together with fittings and appurtenances of various kinds, all within or adjacent to the building and including the service pipe which forms the connection between the shut off valve and curb line and the building, and the house sewer which conveys the waste water and sewage from the building to the street sewer or other point of disposal. The house sewer includes private sewage disposal contraptions or other methods and storm or rain water pipings, if the waste water or sewage is discharged through, or connected with the house sewer or house drain.
"PREMISES." A platted lot or part thereof or unplatted lot or parcel of land or plat of land, either occupied or unoccupied by any dwelling or non-dwelling unit.
"PUBLIC HALL." Any hall, corridor, or passage way not within the exclusive control of one (1) family.
"ROOMING UNIT." Any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking or eating purposes.
"ROOMING HOUSE." Any dwelling, or part of any dwelling, containing one (1) or more rooming units, in which space is let by the owner or operator to three (3) or more persons who are not husband and wife, son or daughter, mother or father, sister or brother, of the occupant.
"RUBBISH." All waste materials, except garbage, and the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke, and other combustible material, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery, and dust.
"SINGLE DWELLING UNIT." A dwelling occupied by one (1) family alone.
"SUPPLIED." Paid for, furnished, provided by, or under the control of, the owner or operator, their agents and/or representatives.
(Ord. 950.4, passed 2-7-67)