For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a separate meaning.
ROOMING HOUSE. Every building or portion of a building other than a hotel, motel, apartment hotel or residential hotel in which sleeping accommodations not constituting an apartment are furnished at a fee for 4 or more persons ordinarily renting such accommodation at a specified rate for a specified time and occupying the premises as a permanent place of abode rather than on a transient basis for a short term period of occupancy.
APARTMENT. A self contained unit with private bath and cooking facilities.
(1997 Code, § 17.01) (Ord. 62-15, passed 12-13-1962)