For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. Whenever the words DWELLING, DWELLING UNIT, ROOMING HOUSE, ROOMING UNIT, or PREMISES are used in this chapter, they shall be construed as though they were followed by the words “or any part thereof.”
ADMINISTRATOR. The officer designated by the Mayor.
BASEMENT. A story of a building or structure having one-half or more but less than three-fourths of its clear height below grade.
CELLAR. A story of a building or structure having three-fourths or more of its clear height below grade.
DWELLING. Any building which is wholly or partially used or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants.
DWELLING UNIT. Any habitable room or group of habitable rooms located within a building and forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used or intended to be used for living quarters, including sleeping, cooking, and eating.
ENCLOSED FLOOR SPACE. A wall system that surrounds a floor space and is permanently attached to the floor causing it to be immobile and affording an opening for egress or entrance to the floor space.
EXTERMINATION. The control and elimination of insects, rodents, or other pests by eliminating their harborage places or their food, by poisoning, spraying fumigating, trapping, or by any other recognized and legal pest elimination methods approved by the Administrator.
GARBAGE. The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.
HABITABLE ROOM. A room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living quarters, including sleeping, cooking and eating purposes, excluding bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, pantries, foyers, or communicating corridors, closets, and storage spaces.
INFESTATION. The presence, within or around a dwelling, of any insects, rodents, or other pests.
MULTIPLE DWELLING. Any dwelling or structure, or part of such structure, containing three or more dwelling units or rooming units.
OCCUPANT. Any person 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.
(1) Any person who, alone, or jointly or severally with others:
(a) Shall have legal title to any dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or
(b) Shall have charge, care, or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or as executor, executrix, administrator, administratrix, trustee, or guardian of the estate of the owner.
(2) Any such person thus representing the actual OWNER shall be bound to comply with the provisions of this chapter, and of rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, to the same extent as if he or she were the OWNER.
PLUMBING. Any of the following supplied facilities and equipment, water pipes, gas-burning plumbing equipment, water pipes, garbage disposal units, waste pipes, water closets, sinks, installed dishwashers, lavatories, bathtubs, shower baths, installed clothes-washing machines, catch basins, drains, plumbing vents, and any other similar supplied fixtures, together with all connections to water, sewer, or gas lines.
ROOMING HOUSE. Any dwelling or that part of any dwelling containing one or more rooming units, in which space is let by the owner or operator to three or more persons who are not husband and wife, son or daughter, mother or father, 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 sleeping but not for cooking or eating purposes.
RUBBISH. Combustible and noncombustible waste material, except garbage; and 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, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery, and dust.
SLEEPING SPACE. An enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for sleeping purposes.
SUPPLIED. Provided, furnished, or paid for by or under the control of the owner or operator.
TEMPORARY HOUSING. Any tent, trailer, 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 consecutive days.
(Prior Code, § 9-1201) (Ord. 560, passed 2-12-1998)