The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Hardware Cloth: Wire screen of such thickness and spacing as to afford reasonable protection against the entrance of rats.
Rat Harborage: Any condition which provides shelter or protection of rats, thus favoring their multiplication and continued existence in, under or outside a structure of any kind.
Rat-Stoppage: Applies to a form of ratproofing to prevent the ingress of rats into or under buildings or other structures from the exteriors or from one building to another. It consists essentially of the closing of all openings in the exteriors, walls, ground and first floors, basements and foundations that may be reached by rats from the ground by climbing or by burrowing, with concrete, sheet iron, hardware cloth or other types of ratproofing material impervious to rat gnawing, approved by the Building Commissioner.
(Code 1972, § 6-11-17)