For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning.
BUILDING COMMISSIONER. An individual or individuals employed by the city and authorized to represent the city in enforcement of the Building Code and act as BUILDING COMMISSIONER.
CLASS 1 STRUCTURE. Any part of the following:
(1) A building or structure which is intended to be or is occupied or is otherwise used in any part by any of the following:
(a) The public;
(b) Three or more tenants;
(c) One or more persons who act as the employee of another; this does not include a Class 2 structure or a vehicular bridge but does include a swimming pool pursuant to the provisions of I.C. 22-12-1-24; and
(d) A site improvement affecting access by persons with physical disabilities to a building or structure described in this division (1) above, except for buildings or structures described in divisions (2) and (3) below.
(2) The Code applies to a structure which contains three or more condominium units, as defined in I.C. 32-25-2-9, or other units which:
(a) Are intended to be or are used or leased by the owner of the unit; and
(b) Are not completely separated from each other by an unimproved space.
(3) The Code does not include a building or structure which:
(a) Is not used for retail trade or is a stand used for retail sales of farm produce for eight or fewer consecutive months per calendar year; or
(b) Is intended to be or is used only for an agricultural purpose on the land where it is located.
(I.C. 22-12-1-4)
CLASS 2 STRUCTURE. Any part of the following, including a swimming pool, but not including a vehicular bridge:
(1) A building or structure which is intended to contain or contains only one dwelling unit or two dwelling units, unless any part of the building or structure is regularly used as a Class 1 structure; and
(2) An outbuilding for a structure described heretofore herein, such as a garage, barn or family swimming pool, unless any part of the outbuilding is regularly used as a Class 1 structure.
(I.C. 22-12-1-5)
CONSTRUCTION. Any of the following:
(1) The fabrication of any part of an industrialized building system or mobile structure for use on another site;
(2) The erection or assembly of any part of a Class 1 or Class 2 structure at the site where it will
be used;
(3) The installation of any part of the permanent heating, ventilating, air conditioning, electrical, plumbing, sanitary, emergency detection, emergency communication or fire or explosion suppression systems for a Class 1 or Class 2 structure at the site where it will be used;
(4) Work undertaken to alter, remodel, rehabilitate or add to any part of a Class 1 or Class 2 structure; or
(5) Work undertaken to relocate any part of a Class 1 or Class 2 structure, except for a mobile structure.
(I.C. 22-12-1-7)
INDUSTRIALIZED BUILDING SYSTEM. Any part of a building or other structure which is in a substantial part fabricated in an offsite manufacturing facility for installation or assembly at the building site as part of a Class 1 or Class 2 structure or another building or structure. However, the term does not include a mobile structure or a system which is capable of inspection at the building site.
(I.C. 22-12-1-14)
MANUFACTURED HOME. The term has the meaning set forth in 42 U.S.C. § 5402 as it existed on January 1, 1984. This definition is as follows: MANUFACTURED HOME means a structure transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein, except that the term shall include any structure which meets all of the requirements of this definition except for the size requirements of this definition, and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and complies with the standards established under 42 U.S.C. § 5402.
(I.C. 22-12-1-16)
MOBILE STRUCTURE.
(1) Any part of a fabricated unit which is designed to be:
(a) Towed on its own chassis; and
(b) Connected to utilities for year- round occupancy or use as a Class 1 structure, Class 2 structure or another structure.
(2) The term includes the following:
(a) Two or more components which can be retracted for towing purposes and subsequently expanded for additional capacity; or
(b) Two or more units which are separately towable but designed to be joined into one
integral unit.
(I.C. 22-12-1-17)
PERSON. An individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, unincorporated association or governmental entity.
(I.C. 22-12-1-18)
STRUCTURE. Both Class 1 and Class 2 structures, unless specifically stated otherwise.
VEHICULAR BRIDGE. Any bridge suspended between two or more parts of a building, or between two or more buildings, which is neither of the following:
(1) A pedestrian walkway; or
(2) A passageway for light vehicles.
(I.C. 22-12-1-26)
(Prior Code, § 15.12.010) (Ord. 2003-01, passed 3-3-2003)