In construing the provisions of this Chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
A. "City Manager" means the City Manager or his or her designee.
B. "Consumer Price Index" or "C.P.I." means the Index known as the "Consumer Price Index for all Urban Wage Consumers: for the Los Angeles - Long Beach - Anaheim Area," (base year, 1967), and if published for the San Bernardino - Riverside-Ontario Area for the year 1984, and thereafter. These documents are published by the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics.
C. "Hearing Officer" is an individual appointed by the Mayor and City Council to hear matters on which testimony may be taken.
D. "Landlord" means any owner, lessor, operator or manager of a mobile home park.
E. "Mobile Home" means a structure designed for human habitation and for being moved on a street or highway under permit pursuant to Section 35790 of the Vehicle Code. Mobile home does not include "recreational vehicle" as defined in Section 799.29 of the Civil Code or a "commercial modular" as defined in Section 18218 of the Health and Safety Code.
F. "Mobile Home Owner" or "Resident" means any person entitled to occupy a mobile home dwelling space pursuant to ownership thereof or a rental or lease agreement with the owner thereof.
G. "Mobile Home Park Owner" or "Park Owner" means the owner, lessor, operator, manager or designated agent thereof of a mobile home park; sometimes referred to as "owner."
H. "Mobile Home Space" or "Space" means the site within a mobile home park intended, designed, or used for the location or accommodation of a mobile home and any accessory structures or appurtenances attached thereto or used in conjunction therewith.
I. "Rent" means the consideration, including any bonus, benefit or gratuity, demanded or received by a landlord for the use and occupancy, including services and amenities, of a residential rental space.
J. "Rent Adjustments" means any rent increase or decrease demanded of or paid by a tenant, including any reduction in housing services without a corresponding reduction in the monies demanded or paid for rent.
K. "Rental Agreement" means an agreement between a mobile home park owner and tenant establishing the terms and conditions of a tenancy in a mobile home park. A lease is a rental agreement.
L. "Residential rental space" means any mobile home space occupied by any person other than the owner of the park for payment of rent pursuant to an oral or written lease, or other form of rental agreement.
M. "Space Rent" means the consideration, including any bonuses, benefits, or gratuities demanded or received for and in connection with the use or occupancy of a mobile home space within a mobile home park, or for housing services provided and security deposits, but exclusive of any amounts paid for the use of the mobile home as a dwelling unit. The use or occupancy of a mobile home space shall include the exercise of all rights and privileges and the use of facilities, services and amenities accruing to the residents thereof.
"Space Rent" shall not include any separately billed utility fees and charges for natural gas or liquid propane gas, electricity, water, cable television, garbage or refuse service and sewer service.
N. "Tenancy" means the right of a tenant to the use of a mobile home site within a mobile home park on which to locate, maintain, and occupy a mobile home, site improvements and accessory structures; for human habitation, including the use of the services and facilities of the mobile home park.
O. "Tenant" means any person entitled to or proposing to occupy such mobile home space pursuant to an oral or written lease with the owner thereof, or pursuant to some other rental agreement with the owner, lessor, operator or manager thereof.
P. "Vacancy" means the condition deemed to have occurred upon the removal of any mobile home from a mobile home park.
(Ord. MC-1481, 4-14-18; Ord. MC-865, 3-24-93)