The following terms as used in this chapter shall have the indicated meaning:
ATTACHED GARAGE: | An enclosed space for the parking or storage of one or more motor vehicles, which is physically a part of a residential occupancy by means of a common roof or wall. It shall not include any parking structure separated by an approved firewall without openings of any kind to the residential occupancy, including doors. |
BUILDING CODES: | The building, fire and other technical codes adopted pursuant to Title 16, Chapter 2. |
CO DETECTOR: | A device sensing invisible particles of carbon monoxide that is either battery powered or AC powered with battery backup that has been installed in accordance with its manufacturer's recommendations, which, when activated, will provide some form of visual or audible detector, and which has been either UL (Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.) listed or CSA (Canadian Standards Association) approved. |
CENTRALIZED FUEL FIRED APPLIANCE: | A fuel fired appliance, such as a hot water heater or boiler, that serves more than one dwelling unit or sleeping room within a multiple dwelling. |
DWELLING UNIT: | Any building or portion thereof designed, occupied, or intended as a residence, with complete and independent living facilities for one or more persons including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation. |
FOSSIL FUEL: | Includes coal, natural gas, kerosene, oil, propane and wood. |
FUEL FIRED APPLIANCES: | Any appliance that burns a fossil fuel of any type including, but not limited to, boilers, furnaces, heaters, fireplaces, stoves, ranges, clothes dryers, barbecues and engines. |
OCCUPANT: | An individual in lawful occupancy of a residential dwelling or dwelling unit, which shall be the owner in the case of an owner occupied residential dwelling, or the tenant, where such tenant is the primary lessee or renter of a residential dwelling or dwelling unit. |
RESIDENTIAL DWELLING: | Any building or portion thereof containing one or more dwelling units occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one or more families, including single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings, and multiple-family dwellings as such terms are defined in Title 15. |
RESIDENTIAL OCCUPANCIES: | A. Any of the following uses as such terms are defined in Title 15: 1. Residential facilities for elderly persons or residential facilities for persons with a disability; 2. Mobile homes, manufactured homes; 3. Hotels, motels, boarding houses, short-term rentals, bed and breakfast inns, single room occupancies; 4. Fraternity or sorority houses, bachelor or bachelorette dwelling units, educational institutions with housing; 5. Assisted living facilities, nursing homes, retirement homes; 6. Protective housing facilities, rehabilitation treatment facilities, whether licensed or unlicensed, transitional housing facilities, shelters for the homeless; and 7. Adult daycare facilities, daycare centers, nurseries for children. B. Any residential occupancy or any institutional occupancy with sleeping units as such terms are defined in the building codes. C. Any other occupancy used for sleeping purposes. |
SEPARATE SLEEPING AREA: | Bedrooms or sleeping rooms separated by other use areas, such as a kitchen or living room, but not including bathrooms. |
SLEEPING UNIT:
| A room or space in which people sleep, which can also include permanent provisions for living, eating, and either sanitation or kitchen facilities but not both. |
(Ord. 2016-61, 12-20-2016; amd. Ord. 2024-12, 5-7-2024)