For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"BASEMENT." A portion of a building located partly underground, but having less than two-thirds of its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
"CELLAR." A portion of a building located partly or wholly underground, and having two-thirds of its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
"DWELLING." A building which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants, provided that temporary housing shall not be regarded as a dwelling.
"DWELLING UNITS." Any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling forming a single habitable unit when those units possess facilities which are used, or intended to be used, for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating, or any mobile home.
"ENFORCEMENT OFFICER." The Health Officer or the Building Inspector or their duly authorized agents.
"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 enforcement officer.
"GARBAGE." The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.
"HABITABLE ROOM." A room of enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, or eating purposes, excluding bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, pantries, foyers, or communicating corridors, closets, and storage spaces.
"HEALTH OFFICER." The person employed by the County Board of Health as its chief administrative officer.
"INFESTATION." The presence, within or around a dwelling, of any insects, rodents, or other pests.
"MOBILE HOME." Any vehicle which is construed to permit its being used as a conveyance on the public streets and highways, and which is designed and constructed to permit its occupancy as a dwelling or sleeping place for one or more persons and which has no foundation other than wheels, jacks, skirting, or other temporary support.
"MULTIPLE DWELLING." Any dwelling containing more than two dwelling units.
"OCCUPANT." Any person, over one 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 of a building, or part thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming units are let.
"ORDINARY MINIMUM WINTER CONDITIONS." The temperature 15°F. above the lowest recorded temperature for the previous ten year period.
"OWNER." Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, has legal title to any dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, provided, that when- ever the dwelling or dwelling unit is subject to conditional sale contract, lease with option to purchase, or any other form of written contract under the terms of which any person is entitled to a conveyance of legal title on payment of a specified sum, the term owner shall mean the person who has such contractual right, rather than the person holding legal title, or has charge, care or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit as executor, executrix, trustees, receiver, or guardian of the owner.
"PLUMBING." All gas pipes, gas-burning equipment, water pipes, garbage disposal units, waste pipes, water closets, sinks, installed dishwashers, lavatories, bathtubs, shower baths, installed clothes washing machines, catch basins, drains, vents, and any other similar supplied fixtures, together with all connections to water, sewer, or gas lines.
"REVIEW BOARD." The County Board of Health when the decision under review involves the Health Officer acting in the capacity of Enforcement Officer or the Board of Public Works and Safety when the decision under review involves the Building Inspector acting in the capacity of the Enforcement Officer.
"ROOMING HOUSE." Any dwelling or that part of any dwelling con- taining one or more rooming units, in which space is let by the owners or operator to five or more persons who are not husband or wife, son or daughter, mother or father, or sister or brother of the owner or operator.
"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.
"RUBBISH." Combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage; 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, leaves, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery, and dust.
"SUPPLIED." Paid for, furnished or provided by or under the control of the owner or operator.
"TEMPORARY HOUSING." Any tent, mobile home, or other structure used for human shelter which is designed to be transportable and which is not attached to the ground, to another structure, or to any utilities system on the same premises for more than 30 days.
('75 Code, § 13-1) (Ord. 3918, passed 10-9-67)