For the purpose of this article, the terms listed below shall be assigned the following definitions:
CERTIFICATE OF USE AND OCCUPANCY. The certificate issued by the Code Official which permits the use of a building and which certifies compliance with the provisions of law for the use and occupancy of the building in its several parts together with any special stipulations or conditions.
CODE OFFICIAL. The officer or other designated authority charged with the administration and enforcement of the Building Code of the city, or a duly authorized representative.
FAMILY. An individual; two or more persons related to each other by blood, marriage or legal adoption, including foster children; or, in the alternative, not more than three unrelated persons.
OCCUPANT. Any person living, sleeping, cooking or eating in or having actual possession of a dwelling unit.
OWNER. Any person who alone, jointly or as tenant in common with others, has legal or equitable title to any dwelling unit with or without accompanying actual possession thereof. For the purposes of this article, OWNER includes an agent of the owner empowered by the owner to act on the conditions or under the circumstances in question.
RENT. Payment of money, goods, labor, service or otherwise for use of a dwelling.
RENTAL DWELLING. Any house, building, mobile home, duplex, condo, townhouse, apartment, or portion thereof intended to be occupied as the place of habitation of human beings, either permanently or transiently for which the owner or operator receives rent from an occupant to permit the occupant to stay in the rental dwelling for one night or more. The term RENTAL DWELLING shall exclude state-licensed health and custodial facilities. The term RENTAL DWELLING shall include the following:
(1) APARTMENT. A room or group of rooms intended to be occupied for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
(2) APARTMENT HOUSE. A residential building designed or used for three or more dwelling units.
(3) CONDOMINIUM, TOWNHOUSE. A single-dwelling unit in a multi-unit dwelling or structure which is separately owned and which may be combined with an undivided interest in the common areas and facilities of the property.
(4) DWELLING (ONE FAMILY). Any building or portion thereof which contains living facilities, including provisions for sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation, as required by this code, for not more than one family, or a congregate residence for six or less persons.
(5) DWELLING, DUPLEX (TWO FAMILY). A building designed or arranged as two dwelling units, to be occupied by two families living independently.
(6) DWELLING, MULTIPLE UNIT. A building or portion thereof designed for occupancy by three or more families living independently in which they may or may not share common entrance and/or other spaces. Individual dwelling units may be owned as condominiums or offered for rent.
(7) GUEST ROOM. Any sleeping area located inside of a hotel and/or motel for guests to sleep in.
(8) MOBILE HOME. Any vehicle or structure constructed in such a manner as to permit occupancy thereof as sleeping and eating quarters or for the conduct of any business, trade or use for storage or conveyance of tools, equipment or machinery, and so designed that it is or may be mounted on wheels and used as a conveyance on roads or streets, customarily propelled or drawn by motor power other than its own. MOBILE HOME also includes Type II and Type III manufactured homes as defined herein.
(9) TENANT. An occupant of a rental dwelling unit who has signed a lease or made a verbal contract exceeding a seven-consecutive day commitment.
(Ord. 2084, passed 7-8-19)