Terms defined. The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this chapter:
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
A detached structure which is not used or not intended to
be used for living or sleeping by human occupants and which is located
on or partially on any premises.
APPROPRIATE AUTHORITY
That person within the governmental structure of the corporate
unit charged with the administration of the appropriate code.
APPROVED
Approved by the local or state authority having such administrative
authority.
ASHES
The residue from the burning of combustible materials.
ATTIC
Any story situated wholly or partly within the roof, so designed,
arranged or built as to be used for business, storage or habitation.
CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEM
A single system supplying heat to one or more dwelling unit(s)
or more than one rooming unit.
CHIMNEY
A vertical masonry shaft of reinforced concrete, or other
approved noncombustible, heat-resisting material enclosing one or
more flues, for the purpose of removing products of combustion from
solid, liquid or gaseous fuel.
DORMITORY
A room or group of rooms in any dwelling used for living
and sleeping purposes by four or more persons.
DWELLING
Any enclosed space which is wholly or partly used or intended
to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants, provided that
temporary housing, as hereinafter defined, shall not be regarded as
a dwelling.
DWELLING UNIT
Any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling and
forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used or
intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
EGRESS
A place or means of going out.
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 methods approved by the local or state authority
having such administrative authority.
FAIR MARKET VALUE
A price at which both buyers and sellers are willing to do
business.
FAMILY
One adult person plus one or more persons who are legally
related to said person and residing in the same dwelling unit with
said person.
FLUSH WATER CLOSET
A toilet bowl flushed with water under pressure with a water-sealed
trap above the floor level.
GARBAGE
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking, serving and nonconsumption of food.
GUEST
Any person who shares a dwelling unit in a nonpermanent status
for not more than 30 days.
HABITABLE ROOM
A room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used
for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, excluding bathrooms,
water closet compartments, laundries, furnace rooms, pantries, kitchenettes
and utility rooms of less than 50 square feet of floor space, foyers
or communicating corridors, stairways, closets, storage spaces, and
workshops, hobby and recreation areas in unheated or uninsulated parts
of a structure below ground level or in attics.
HEALTH OFFICER
The legally designated health authority of the Borough of
Colwyn.
HEATED WATER
Water heated to a temperature of not less than 120° F.
at the outlet.
HOUSEHOLD
A family and/or one or more unrelated persons, including
servants, who share the same dwelling and use some or all of its cooking
and eating facilities.
INFESTATION
The presence within or around a dwelling of any insects,
rodents or other pests.
KITCHEN
Any room containing any or all of the following equipment
or any area of a room within three feet of such equipment: a sink
and/or other device for dishwashing, a stove or other device for cooking,
a refrigerator or other device for cool storage of food, cabinets
and/or shelves for storage of equipment and utensils, and a counter
or table for food preparation.
KITCHENETTE
A small kitchen or an alcove containing cooking facilities.
MULTIPLE DWELLING
Any dwelling containing more than two dwelling units and/or
rooming units.
OCCUPANT
Any person over one year of age living, sleeping, cooking
or eating in or actually having possession of a dwelling unit or a
rooming unit, except that in dwelling units a guest will not be considered
an occupant.
OPERATOR
Any person who has charge, care, control or management of
a building, or part thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming units
are let.
ORDINARY SUMMER CONDITIONS
A temperature 10° F. below the highest recorded temperature
in the locality for the prior ten-year period.
ORDINARY WINTER CONDITIONS
A temperature 15° F. above the lowest recorded temperature
in the locality for the prior ten-year period.
OWNER
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others:
(1)
Shall have legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling
unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or
(2)
Shall have charge, care or control of any premises, dwelling
or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or an executor,
administrator, trustee or guardian of the estate of the owner. Any
such person thus representing the actual owner shall be bound to comply
with the provisions of this chapter and of rules and regulations adopted
pursuant thereto, to the same extent as if he were the owner.
PERMISSIBLE OCCUPANCY
The maximum number of persons permitted to reside in a dwelling
unit or rooming unit.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership.
PLUMBING
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 fixture, and
the installation thereof, together with all connections to water,
sewer or gas lines.
PREMISES
A platted lot or part thereof or unplatted lot or parcel
of land or plot of land, either occupied or unoccupied by any dwelling
or nondwelling structure, and includes any such building, accessory
structure or other structure thereon.
PRIVACY
The existence of conditions which will permit a person or
persons to carry out an activity commenced without interruption or
interference, either by sight or sound, by unwanted persons.
RAT HARBORAGE
Any place where rats can live, nest or seek shelter.
RATPROOFING
A form of construction which will prevent the ingress or
egress of rats to or from a given space or building, or gaining access
to food, water or harborage. It consists of the closing and keeping
closed of every opening in foundations, basements, cellars, exterior
and interior walls, ground or first floors, roofs, sidewalk gratings,
sidewalk openings and other places that may be reached and entered
by rats by climbing, burrowing or other methods, by the use of materials
impervious to rat gnawing and other methods approved by the appropriate
authority.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solids (except body wastes),
including garbage, rubbish, ashes and dead animals.
REFUSE CONTAINER
A watertight container that is constructed of metal, or other
durable material impervious to rodents, that is capable of being serviced
without creating insanitary conditions, or such other containers approved
by the appropriate authority. Openings into the container such as
covers and doors shall be tight-fitting.
ROOMING HOUSE
Any dwelling or that part of any dwelling containing one
or more rooming units and/or one or more dormitory rooms.
ROOMING UNIT
Any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit
used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking
purposes.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes (excluding ashes) consisting
of either:
(1)
Combustible wastes such as paper, cardboard, plastic containers,
yard clippings and wood; or
(2)
Noncombustible wastes such as tin cans, glass and crockery.
SAFETY
The condition of being free from danger and hazards which
may cause accidents or disease.
SPACE HEATER
A self-contained heating appliance of either the circulating
type or the radiant type and intended primarily to heat only one room.
SUPPLIED
Paid for, furnished by, provided by or under the control
of the owner, operator or agent.
TEMPORARY HOUSING
Any tent, trailer, mobile home or any other structure used
for human shelter which is designed to be transportable and which
is not attached to the ground, to another structure or to any utility
system on the same premises for more than 30 consecutive days.