For the purposes of this chapter, the following phrases, terms and words shall have the meanings given in this section:
BUSINESS BUILDING: Any structure, whether public or private, regardless of the type of material used in its construction, located within the boundaries of Salt Lake City, that is adapted to occupancy for residence or for the transaction of business, whether vacant or occupied, for the rendering of professional services, for the display, sale or storage of goods, wares, or merchandise, or for the performance of work or labor, including hotels, rooming houses, boarding houses, apartment houses, taverns, breweries, office buildings, public buildings, stores, markets, restaurants, grain elevators and abattoirs, warehouses, workshops and factories, junkyards, scrap iron businesses or places, lumberyards, coal yards, automobile tire yards, sheds or buildings used for the storage of tires, and any or all similar places where rats may find harborage.
HEALTH OFFICER: The director of the Salt Lake Valley health department, or any duly authorized representative.
OCCUPANT: The individual, partnership or corporation that uses or occupies any business buildings, or part or fraction thereof, whether the actual owner or tenant. In case of vacant business buildings or vacant portions thereof, the owner, agent or custodian shall have the responsibility as occupant.
OWNER: The actual owner, agent or custodian of the business building, whether individual, partnership or corporation. The lessee shall be construed as the "owner", for the purposes of this chapter, when business building agreements hold the lessee responsible for maintenance and repairs.
RAT ERADICATION: The elimination or extermination of rats within buildings or premises by any or all of the accepted measures, such as poisoning, fumigation, trapping, clubbing, etc.
RAT HARBORAGE: Any condition which provides shelter or protection for rats, thus favoring their multiplication and continued existence in, under or outside of any structure.
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS: Any structures built for occupancy as living quarters.
VENT STOPPAGE OR RATPROOFING: A form of ratproofing to prevent the ingress of rats into business buildings from the exterior or from one business building to another. (Ord. 1-06 § 30, 2006: prior code § 18-22-1)