Words in the singular include the plural and the plural the singular. Words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and the feminine the masculine. Any term not defined below shall have its ordinary accepted meaning within the context it is used. For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING CODE. The Minnesota State Building Code.
CODE OFFICIAL. The city’s Building Official, as appointed by the City Council, and any designee of such Code Official.
ELECTRICAL CODE. The Minnesota State Electrical Code.
EXTERMINATION. The control and elimination 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 method approved by the Code Official.
FIRE CODE. The Minnesota State Fire Code.
HEALTH OFFICER. Any elected or appointed health officer of the state, the county or the city.
INFESTATION. The presence of insects, rodents or other pests in numbers large enough to be harmful, threatening or obnoxious to human life.
LEASE, LEASED and LET. In each instance any of these words is used, the giving of the use of a building or structure, or portion thereof, by an owner or manager to a tenant in return for rent.
MANAGER. A person or entity who has charge, care or control of a rental dwelling.
MECHANICAL CODE. The Minnesota State Mechanical Code.
NUISANCE. Any of the following:
(1) Any public nuisance known at common law or in equity jurisprudence;
(2) Any unsafe condition that is attractive to minors including, but not limited to, unprotected well openings or excavations, abandoned refrigerators and structurally unsound fences;
(3) Overcrowding of a rental dwelling unit with human occupants or personal property;
(4) Insufficient ventilation or illumination of a rental dwelling unit;
(5) Inadequate or unsanitary sewage or plumbing facilities serving a rental dwelling unit; or
(6) Any unsafe condition, as determined by the Code Official or Health Officer.
OWNER. A person or entity that owns or has any ownership interest in a rental dwelling within the city.
PLUMBING CODE. The Minnesota State Plumbing Code.
PREMISES. Collectively, a rental dwelling and the parcel of land on which it is located.
REFUSE. All putrescible and non-putrescible waste solids including garbage and rubbish.
RENT. The consideration provided by a tenant (or on behalf of a tenant) for the temporary possession of a rental dwelling unit, whether paid in money, property or services.
RENTAL DWELLING. Any building or portion thereof that contains living facilities including provisions for sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation for not more than one family in a single habitable unit. Each room or group of rooms with:
(1) An entrance door to the exterior of the building; or
(2) An entrance door to a common corridor or hallway is a separate rental dwelling unit.
RENTAL DWELLING UNIT. A room or group of rooms within a rental dwelling that has bathroom, kitchen and sleeping facilities for one household of related or unrelated tenants.
SAFE. Being reasonably free from dangers and hazards that may cause human injury or illness.
SUBSTANDARD DWELLING UNIT. Any rental dwelling unit that is not safe due to inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, physical damage, unsanitary condition, abandonment or any other reason.
TENANT. A human occupant of a rental dwelling unit, whether one or more.
UNSAFE. Not safe.
VARIANCE. The difference between that which is required or specified and that which is permitted.
(Ord. 83C, passed 2-16-2011)