For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APARTMENT. A community, complex, or building having a common OWNER and containing four or more LIVING UNITS.
APPLICANT. The natural PERSON completing the registration form prescribed herein.
CITY MANAGER. The CITY MANAGER or the CITY MANAGER'S designee.
DWELLING. A building or portion thereof, designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy, including one-family, two-family, and multiple-family dwelling units, efficiency units, manufactured homes, and townhomes; but not including hotels, motels, or hospitals.
FAMILY. One or more PERSONS related by blood, marriage, adoption, or foster parent relationships, occupying a DWELLING and living as a single housekeeping unit, or a group of not more than four persons not so related, maintaining a common household and using common cooking facilities, as distinguished from a group occupying a rooming/boarding house or hotel/motel, as herein described.
LET FOR OCCUPANCY or TO LET. To permit possession or occupancy of a DWELLING or LIVING UNIT by a person who is not the legal OWNER of record thereof, pursuant to a written or unwritten lease, or pursuant to a recorded or unrecorded agreement, whether or not a fee is required by the agreement.
LIVING UNIT. A single unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation.
NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION; HOUSING-RELATED. HOUSING-RELATED NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION means a nonprofit corporation that:
(1) Designates in its articles of incorporation or bylaws a specific geographic community to which its activities are limited; and
(2) Is formed for the purposes of promoting community safety, crime prevention, and housing quality in a nondiscriminatory manner.
NO OCCUPANCY ORDER. The residential rental DWELLING or unit cannot be used for sleeping, eating, cooking, or living.
OCCUPANT. Any person living or sleeping in a DWELLING or having possession of a space within a DWELLING.
OPERATE/RENT. To LET FOR OCCUPANCY or TO LET.
OWNER. Any PERSON, agent, operator, firm, or corporation having a legal or equitable interest in the property; or recorded in the official records of the state, county, or municipality as holding title to the property; or otherwise having control of the property, including the guardian of the estate of any such PERSON, and the executor or administrator of the estate of such PERSON if ordered to take possession of real property by a court, or any PERSON representing the actual OWNER.
PERSON. An individual, corporation, firm, association, company, partnership, organization, or any other group acting as a unit.
RENTAL DWELLING. Any APARTMENT, general housing unit, or SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING LET FOR OCCUPANCY.
RENTAL MANAGER. Any natural PERSON who has been delegated by the RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTY OWNER the charge, care, or control of a RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTY, and is able to respond in person to issues related to the RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTY.
RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTY. Any building, or one or more portions thereof, occupied or intended to be occupied for residential purposes by a RESIDENTIAL TENANT.
RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTY OWNER. Any person or entity owning RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTY within the city.
RESIDENTIAL TENANT. A person who does not own but occupies a DWELLING for residential purposes, for payment of a fee or other compensation to the OWNER, under a lease or contract, written or verbal.
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING. A DWELLING with less than two LIVING UNITS.
STRUCTURE. Anything constructed or erected on, or connected to the ground.
(Ord. 433, passed 4-19-18)