For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
GARBAGE. Has the meaning contained within 329 IAC 10-2-76. The term garbage shall also include dead animals, parts of dead animals, and all other putrescible materials.
HABITABLE ROOM. A room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, or eating. The following types of rooms are not habitable rooms: bathroom, laundry room, furnace room, pantry, kitchenette, utility room with less than 50 square feet of flooring space, foyer, connecting corridor, stairway, closet, storage space, workshop, or hobby or recreational area.
MULTI-UNIT. A dwelling with more than two individual apartments or living units.
OCCUPANT. Any individual over one year of age, living, sleeping, cooking or eating in or having possession of a dwelling unit or a rooming unit.
ORDINARY WINTER CONDITIONS. Fifteen degrees Fahrenheit above the lowest recorded temperature in Hancock County for the prior ten-year period.
OWNER. Unless otherwise indicated shall refer to ownership of real property, which ownership may take any one or more of the following forms:
(1) The person holding an interest in fee simple, life estate, joint tenancy, tenancy by the entireties, and/or life estate.
(2) The title holder as reported in the Office of the Hancock County Recorder.
(3) The purchaser of real property under a contract for conditional sale.
(4) The person in control of the property as personal representative of an estate, trustee, receiver, successor, assign, or guardian of a person specified in subsections (1), (2) or (3) above.
PLUMBING. Means and includes all of the following facilities and equipment: natural gas pipes, equipment fueled by natural gas or oil, water pipes, garbage disposal units, waste pipes, water closets, sinks, dishwashers, lavatories, bathtubs, showers, clothes washing machines, catch basins, drains, vents, and any other similarly installed fixtures together with all connections to water, sewer, and gas lines.
RUBBISH. Non-putrescible solid waste including combustible waste such as paper, cardboard, plastic containers, yard clippings, and wood and non-combustible waste such as cans, glass, metal, and bottles.
SOLID WASTE. Has the meaning contained within 329 IAC 10-2-174.
SOLID WASTE STORAGE CONTAINER. A receptacle used for the temporary storage for solid waste while awaiting collection. The refuse bin is considered to be a SOLID WASTE STORAGE CONTAINER.
VECTOR. Any living animal capable of harboring or transmitting micro-organisms from one animal to another animal or human.