The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
(a) "Designated City Official" means the Building Commissioner the City of Lyndhurst, Ohio or his/her designee.
(b) "Dwelling unit" means a space within a dwelling, comprised of a living, cooking and dining area, a sleeping room or rooms, storage closets and bathing and toilet facilities, all used by only one family.
(c) "Property Owner" means the person claiming, or in whom is invested, the ownership or title to real property, including but not limited to: the holder of a fee-simple title; the holder of a life-estate; the holder of leasehold estate for a term of five (5) years or more; a buyer under contract for deed; a mortgagee, receiver, executor or trustee in control of real property and is the individual entrusted with the authority to convey, divest, transfer, or otherwise impact the title of the property; but not including the holder of a leasehold estate an initial term of less than five (5) years. The property must not qualify for the owner-occupied credit from Cuyahoga county, per ORC 323.153 and related provisions.
(d) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, or association, two (2) or more persons having a joint interest, or any other legal or community entity.
(e) "Non-Owner Occupied" means: the registered owner of the property is not physically residing at the property and is not utilizing the property as the primary residence of the property owner.
(f) "Property Manager" means a person partnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation, other than the Property Owner that has managing control of a rental unit with or without compensation who operates. Manages, or rents, or offers or attempts to operate, manage, or rent, other than a custodian, caretaker, or janitor, any building or portion of buildings to the public as tenants, and is licensed by the state of ohio as otherwise required by ORC Chapter 4735.
(g) "Renting" means the offering, holding out or actual leasing of a rental unit to an occupant other than the Property Owner, and generally involves the payment of a rental amount in cash, check or money order, although other forms of consideration (such as property safekeeping) may be involved; no exchange of money, or no consideration at all may be involved.
(h) "Rental unit" means a one, two or three-family dwelling unit, including a town home dwelling unit, a condominium, apartment condominium or apartment dwelling that is not continuously occupied by the Property Owner twelve months out of the year. A tax mailing address which is not the address of the dwelling unit creates a rebuttable presumption that the dwelling unit is a rental unit. The property must not qualify for the owner-occupied credit from Cuyahoga County, per ORC 323.153 and related provisions.
(i) "Tenant" means any person, including family members, other than the Property Owner, who occupies, rents, or leases a rental unit for any period of time for living or dwelling purposes with the consent of the owner or the landlord.
(j) "Vacant building" means any structure that is unoccupied. A vacant building is subject to the provisions of Chapter 1395 of these Codified Ordinances.
(k) "Tax mailing address" means the address shown on the Cuyahoga County Fiscal Officer's website as being the location to which the property tax bill is to be mailed. (Ord. 2024-29. Passed 5-20-24.)