For the purpose of this subchapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMPLETION. Substantially ready for the use for which an improvement is intended.
DWELLING. A building or part of a building used, to be used or held for use as a home or residence, including accessory buildings located on the same premises, together with the land upon which said building or buildings are erected and which may be necessary for the fair enjoyment thereof, but shall not include a building or part of a building defined as a “multiple dwelling” pursuant to the Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law, P.L. 1967, c.76. A dwelling shall include, as they are separately conveyed to individual owners, individual residences within a cooperative, if purchased separately by the occupants thereof, and individual residences within a horizontal property regime or a condominium, but shall not include general common elements” or ‘common elements’ thereof where residential units are owned separately.
IMPROVEMENT. A modernization, rehabilitation, renovation, alteration or repair of a dwelling which produces a physical change in the
existing building or structure that improves the safety, sanitation, decency and attractiveness of the building or structure as a place for human habitation and which does not change its permitted use.
(Ord. 355-19, passed 10-28-19)