The following terms, wherever used herein or referred to in this chapter shall have the respective meanings assigned to them unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
(a) "Accessory structure" means a structure, the use of which is incidental to that of the main building and which is attached thereto or located on the same premises.
(b) "Building" means a structure which is permanently affixed to the land having one or more floors and a roof, being bounded by either open space or lot lines, and used as a shelter or enclosure for persons, animals or enclosure for property. The term shall be used synonymously with “structure” unless otherwise noted, and shall be construed as if followed by the words "part or parts thereof".
(c) "Building Code" means the Building Code of the City.
(d) "Deterioration" means the condition or appearance of a building or part thereof, characterized by holes, breaks, rot, crumbling, cracking, peeling, rusting or other evidence of physical decay, neglect or lack of maintenance.
(e) "Dwelling" means a building designed or occupied exclusively for nontransient residential use and permitted accessory uses including one-family, two-family or multi-family buildings.
(f) "Dwelling unit" means space, within a dwelling, comprising living, dining, sleeping room or rooms, storage closets, as well as space and equipment for cooking, bathing and toilet facilities, all used by only one family and its household employees.
(g) "Exposed to public view" means any premises, or any part thereof or any building or any part, which may be lawfully viewed by the public or any member thereof, from a sidewalk, street, alleyway, open-air parking lot or from any adjoining or neighboring premises.
(h) "Exterior of the premises" means those portions of a building which are exposed to public view and the open space of any premises outside of any building erected thereon.
(i) “Fire Chief” means the Chief of the Fire Department of the City of Union.
(j) “Fire hazard” means any thing or act which increases or may cause an increase of the hazard or menace of fire to a greater degree than that customarily recognized as normal by persons in the public service of preventing, suppressing or extinguishing fire, or that which may obstruct, delay or hinder or may become the cause of an obstruction, delay, hazard or hindrance to the prevention, suppression or extinguishment of fire, or any other fire hazard defined in the Codified Ordinances. (Also see subsection (o) hereof.)
(k) “Garbage” means putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food. (Also see subsections (t) and (w) hereof.)
(l) “Immediate neighborhood” means an area separated by no appreciable space and specially denoting a limited number of properties in a very close space relationship to each other.
(m) “Infestation” means the presence of insects, rodents, vermin or other pests on the premises which constitutes a health hazard.
(n) “Mixed occupancy” means any building containing one or more dwelling units or rooming units and also having a portion thereof devoted to nondwelling uses.
(o) “Nuisance” means:
(1) Any public nuisance known in equity jurisprudence, or as provided by the statutes of the State or the ordinances of the City;
(2) Conditions dangerous to human life or detrimental to the health of persons on or near the premises where the conditions exist and where the conditions is perilous by active and negligent operation thereof;
(3) Unsanitary conditions or anything offensive to the senses or dangerous to health, in violation of this Code; or
(4) Fire hazards.
(p) “Operator” means any person who has charge, care or control of a building, structure, dwelling or premises, or a part thereof, whether with or without the knowledge and consent of the owner.
(q) “Owner” means the owner or owners of the premises, including the holder of title thereto, subject to contract of purchase, a vendee in possession, or mortgagee or receiver in possession, a lessee or joint lessees or the whole thereof, or an agent or any other person, firm, corporation or fiduciary directly in control the premises.
(r) “Premises” means a lot, plot or parcel of land, including the buildings or structures thereon.
(s) “Property maintenance officer” means the Inspector/Zoning Enforcement Officer.
(t) “Refuse” means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, except body wastes, including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals and solid market and industrial wastes. (Also see subsections (k) and (w) hereof.)
(u) “Registered mail” means registered or certified mail.
(v) “Rooming unit” means any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit other than a dwelling unit, which is rented or available for rent for sleeping purposes, with or without cooking facilities.
(w) “Rubbish” means nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, crockery and similar materials. (Also see subsections (k) and (t) hereof.)
(x) “Structure” means a combination of any materials whether fixed or portable forming a construction.
(y) “Weathering” means deterioration, decay or damage caused by exposure to the elements. (Ord. 703. Passed 2-11-85.)