The following words and terms, as used in this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
DWELLING UNIT. A single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation, including those defined under LONG-TERM HOTEL DWELLING UNIT and ROOMING HOUSE DWELLING UNIT herein, any mobile home, wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes by human occupants, rented or offered for rent by any person or entity to any other person or persons for use for residential purposes by such other person or persons. DWELLING UNIT does not include rest homes, convalescent homes, nursing homes, hotels, motels, dormitories or facilities licensed by the State of Minnesota as institutional occupancies.
LONG-TERM HOTEL DWELLING UNIT. Any dwelling unit in any hotel which the dwelling unit is held out or available to the public for use for sleeping or residential purposes for periods of one week or more providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation.
OFFENDER TRANSITIONAL HOUSING. A dwelling unit as defined above, long-term hotel dwelling unit, rooming house dwelling unit or other facility, intended, or used principally to provide short-term supervised housing to more than one offender and/or sex offender, as defined by Minnesota Statute and Rule, who are on supervised release or conditional release, and who are receiving housing assistance, either directly or indirectly, and supervision from the Minnesota Department of Corrections, or designee, and/or as part of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program, and/or who are required to live in the dwelling, long-term hotel dwelling unit, rooming house dwelling unit or other lodging facility as a condition of release and supervision program. OFFENDER TRANSITIONAL HOUSING does not include housing declared by state law to be permitted single-family residential use under M.S. § 462.357, Subd. 7. A dwelling unit owned by or leased by the offender, or by a member of the offender's immediate family, shall not be considered OFFENDER TRANSITIONAL HOUSING.
RENT. Any consideration paid for the exclusive use of the dwelling unit, including but not limited to money, services, or a combination thereof paid or delivered at fixed intervals periodically agreed upon.
ROOMING HOUSE DWELLING UNIT. Any dwelling unit in any building or structure, which building or structure is used or held out to be a place where sleeping accommodations are furnished to the public as regular roomers for periods of one week or more.
SHORT-TERM. A period of time not exceeding 12 months or as otherwise established by Minnesota Statute and Rules.
(Ord. 549, passed 10-12-2015; Ord. 578, passed 11-26-2018)