For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DWELLING UNIT. A structure, building, area, room or combination of rooms occupied by persons for sleeping or living excluding privately owned and occupied single-family dwellings until the time of sale.
HOSPITAL. A building or part thereof used for medical, psychiatric, obstetrical or surgical care, on a 24-hour basis, of inpatients. The term HOSPITAL includes general hospitals, mental hospitals, tuberculosis hospitals, children’s hospitals and other such facilities providing inpatient care.
NURSING HOME. A building or part thereof used for the lodging, boarding and nursing care, on a 24-hour basis, of persons who, because of mental or physical incapacity, may be unable to provide for their own needs and safety without the assistance of another person. The term NURSING HOME includes nursing and convalescent homes, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities and infirmaries or homes for the aged.
OWNER.
(1) Any person who, alone, jointly or severally with other persons has legal title to any premises; any person who has the charge, care or control over any premises as an agent, officer, fiduciary or employee of the owner; the committee, conservator or legal guardian of an owner who is non compos mentis, a minor or otherwise under a disability; a trustee, elected or appointed, or a person required by law to execute a trust, other than a trustee under a deed of trust to secure the payment of money; or an executor, administrator, receiver, fiduciary, officer appointed by any court or other similar representative of the owner or his or her estate.
(2) OWNER does not include a lessee, sublessee or other person who merely has the right to occupy or possess a premises.
RESIDENTIAL-CUSTODIAL CARE FACILITY.
(1) A building, or part thereof, used for the lodging or boarding of persons who are incapable of self-preservation because of age or physical or mental limitations, or who are detained for correctional purposes; this includes homes for the aged, nurseries (custodial care for children under six years of age), institutions for the mentally retarded (care institutions) and halfway houses, as well as sheltered living facilities and halfway houses.
(2) RESIDENTIAL-CUSTODIAL CARE FACILITY does not include day-care facilities that do not provide lodging or boarding for institutional occupants.
SLEEPING AREA.
(1) A bedroom or room intended for sleeping, or a combination of rooms or rooms intended for sleeping within a dwelling unit, which are located on the same floor and are not separated by another habitable room, such as a living room, dining room or kitchen, but not a bathroom, hallway or closet.
(2) A dwelling unit may have more than one SLEEPING AREA. SLEEPING AREA does not include common usage areas in structures with more than one dwelling unit, such as corridors, lobbies and basements.
SMOKE DETECTOR. A device which detects visible or invisible particles of combustion.
SUBSTANTIALLY REHABILITATED. Any improvement to a structure which is valued greater than one-half of the assessed valuation of the property including the land.
(Prior Code, § 92.15) (Ord. 81-1980, passed - -1980; Ord. 10-1988, passed - -1988)