This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Housing
Code of the City of Glens Falls."
A.
APPROVED
BASEMENT
BUILDING
CELLAR
DIRECTOR OF BUILDINGS
DWELLING
DWELLING UNIT
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
EXTERIOR PROPERTY AREAS
EXTERMINATION
GARBAGE
GRADE
HABITABLE ROOM
INFESTATION
KITCHEN
KITCHENETTE
MULTIPLE RESIDENCE
OCCUPANT
OPENABLE AREA
OPERATOR
OWNER
PERSON
PLUMBING
PREMISES
PUBLIC HALL
RENTAL DUPLEX
ROOMING HOUSE
ROOMING UNIT
RUBBISH
SINGLE-FAMILY-DWELLING
SUPPLIED
VENTILATION, MECHANICAL
VENTILATION, NATURAL
WATER CLOSET
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement
of this chapter:
Constructed, installed and maintained in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter and other pertinent ordinances or regulations
of the City of Glens Falls or applicable therein.
A story partly underground but having at least 1/2 of its
height above the average level of the adjoining ground. A "basement"
shall be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurement
if the vertical distance between the ceiling and the average level
of the adjoining ground is more than five feet or if used for business
or dwelling purposes.
Any structure having a roof for the shelter, housing or enclosure
of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.
An enclosed space within the foundation walls of a building
and having more than 1/2 of its height below the average level of
the adjoining ground. In no event shall a "cellar" be considered a
dwelling.
The person designated by the Mayor to carry out the duty
of providing a hearing and making a determination with respect to
repair and/or demolition of buildings as specified in this chapter.
[Added 2-19-1969]
A building designed or used as the living quarters for one
or more families. The terms "dwelling," "one-family dwelling," "two-family
dwelling" or "dwelling group" shall be deemed to include automobile
court, rooming house or tourist home.
A dwelling or portion thereof providing complete living facilities
for one family.
The person designated by a majority of the Common Council
to carry out the duties of enforcement and administration specified
in this chapter (Building Inspector).
Open space on the premises and vacant open space on adjacent
premises.
The control and elimination of insects, rodents or other
pests by eliminating their harborage places and by removing or making
inaccessible materials that may serve as their food by any recognized
and legal pest elimination method approved by the enforcement officer.
The animal, vegetable and mineral waste resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
The natural surface of the ground or surface ground after
completion of any change in contour, including the completed surfaces
of lawns, walks and roads brought to grades as shown on official plans
or designs relating thereto.
A room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used
for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, excluding stairways,
bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, pantries, foyers,
communicating corridors, closets or storage spaces.
The presence within or around a dwelling, dwelling unit,
rooming house, rooming unit or premises of insects, rodents, vermin
or other pests.
A space 60 square feet or more in floor area with a minimum
width of five feet, used in cooking or preparation of food and deemed
habitable space.
A space less than 60 square feet in floor area used for cooking
or preparation of food and not deemed habitable space.
A building containing three or more dwelling units; a building
containing living, sanitary and sleeping facilities occupied by one
or two families and more than four lodgers residing with either one
of such families; or a building with one or more sleeping rooms other
than a one- or two-family dwelling, used or occupied by permanent
or transient paying guests or tenants.
Any person, including an owner or operator, over one year
of age living, sleeping, cooking or eating in or having actual possession
of a dwelling unit or room in a rooming house.
Any part of a window or door which is available for unobstructed
ventilation and which opens directly to the outdoors.
Any person having charge, care, management or control of
any dwelling, or part of it, in which dwelling units or rooming units
are let.
Any person who, alone, jointly or severally with others,
holds legal or equitable title to any dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming
house or rooming unit.
An individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership.
Includes all of the following supplied facilities and equipment:
gas pipes, gas-burning equipment, water pipes, garbage disposal units,
waste pipes, water closets, sinks, installed dishwashers, lavatories,
bathtubs, shower baths, installed clothes-washing machines, catch
basins, drains, vents and any other similar supplied fixtures, together
with all connections to water, sewer or gas lines.
A plotted lot or part thereof or unplotted lot or parcel
or plot of land, either occupied or unoccupied by any dwelling or
nondwelling structure, including the dwelling or structure thereon.
Any hall, corridor or passageway not within the exclusive
control of one family.
A duplex (two-family) building within the City of Glens Falls,
at least one dwelling unit of which is rented to one or more persons
as living quarters.
[Added 9-27-1983]
Any dwelling or part thereof which contains one or more rooming
units, in which space is let by the occupant or owner to three or
more persons not directly related to him.
Any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit
used or intended to be used for living or sleeping but not for cooking
or eating purposes.
All combustible and noncombustible waste, except garbage.
A dwelling occupied by one family alone.
Paid for, furnished or provided by or under the control of
the owner or operator, his agents and/or representatives.
Any ventilation by power-driven devices.
Any ventilation by opening to outer air through windows,
skylights, doors, louvers or stacks, with or without wind-driven devices.
A toilet, with a bowl and trap, which is connected to the
City water and sewer system or to another approved water supply and
sewer system.
B.
Meaning of certain words. Whenever the words "building," "dwelling,"
"dwelling unit," "rooming house" and "premises" are used in this chapter,
they shall be construed as though they were followed by the words
"or any part thereof."
