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(a) "One-family dwelling" means a building containing one dwelling unit with not more than five lodgers or boarders.
(b) "Two-family dwelling" means a building containing two dwelling units with not more than five lodgers or boarders per family but not more than twenty individuals.
(c) "Multi-family-apartment house" means a building containing more than two dwelling units.
(d) "Boarding house", "lodging house" or "tourist house" means a building arranged or used for lodging with or without meals, for compensation, for more than five and not more than twenty individuals.
(e) "Dormitory" means a building arranged or used for lodging six but not more than twenty individuals and having common toilet and bathroom facilities.
(f) "Hotel" means a building arranged or used for sheltering, sleeping or feeding, for compensation, more than twenty individuals. (Ord. 1971-43. Passed 7-26-71.)
"Extermination" means the control and elimination of insects, rodents or other pests by eliminating their harboring 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 City Manager or the Health Commissioner.
(Ord. 1971-43. Passed 7-26-71.)
"Habitable room" means a room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, excluding bathrooms, water closets, laundries, pantries, foyers or communicating corridors, closets and storage spaces.
(Ord. 1971-43. Passed 7-26-71.)
"Owner" means any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others:
(a) Has legal or equitable title to any dwelling or dwelling unit, rooming house or rooming unit together with the right to control or possess the same. When any such dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming house or rooming unit has been sold under a land contract whereby the right to possession and duties of maintenance are vested in the purchaser, then such land contract purchaser is deemed to be the owner for the purposes of this Housing Code; or
(b) Has charge, care or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit, rooming house or rooming unit, as agent of the owner, or as executor, executrix, administrator, administratrix, assignee, trustee or guardian of the estate of the owner. Any such person thus representing the actual owner shall be bound to comply with the provisions of this Housing Code, and of rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, to the same extent as if he were the owner.
(Ord. 1971-43. Passed 7-26-71.)
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