For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BASEMENT. A portion of a building located partly below ground, but having less than half of its clear, floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
CELLAR. A portion of a building located wholly or partly below ground and having half or more than half of its clear, floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
DWELLING. Any building wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants. Temporary housing, as defined in this section, is not a DWELLING.
DWELLING UNIT. Any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling and forming a single, habitable unit with facilities that are used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
EXTERMINATION. The control and elimi- nation of insects, rodents or other pests by eliminating their harborage places, by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food, by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, trapping or by any other recognized and legal pest elimination methods approved by the Health Officer.
GARBAGE. 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, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, excluding bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, pantries, foyers or communicating corridors, closets and storage spaces.
HEALTH OFFICER. The county health authority or the authority's authorized representative.
INFESTATION. The presence, within or around a dwelling, of any insects, rodents or other pests.
MULTIPLE DWELLING. Any dwelling containing more than two dwelling units.
OCCUPANT. Any person, more than one year of age, living, sleeping, cooking, eating in or having actual possession of a dwelling unit or a rooming unit.
OPERATOR. Any person who has the charge, care or control of a building, or part thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming units are let.
ORDINARY MINIMUM WINTER CONDITIONS. Temperature of 15° Fahrenheit above the lowest recorded temperature for the previous ten-year period.
OWNER. Any person who, along, jointly or severally with others:
(1) Shall have the legal title to any dwelling or dwelling unit with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or,
(2) Shall have the charge, care or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or as executor, executrix, admini-strator, administratrix, trustee or guardian of the estate of the owner. Any such person thus representing the OWNER shall be bound to comply with the provisions of this chapter and with the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to it, to the same extent as if he or she were the OWNER.
PLUMBING. Gas pipes, gas burning equip- ment, water pipes, garbage disposal units, water pipes, water closets, sinks, installed dishwashers, lavatories, bathtubs, shower baths, installed clothes washing machines, catch basins, drains, vents and 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 or 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 living and sleeping but not for cooking or eating purposes.
RUBBISH. Combustible and non-combustible waste materials, except garbage. RUBBISH also 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.
SUPPLIED. Paid for, furnished or provided by or other 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 utility system on the same premises for more than 30 consecutive days.
(B) Whenever the words, DWELLING, DWELLING UNIT, ROOMING HOUSE, ROOMING UNIT and PREMISES are used in this chapter, they shall be construed as though they were followed by the words “or any part thereof.”
('74 Code, § 13-1) (Ord. 780, passed 8-1-67)