For the purposes of this title the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this chapter.
(Prior code § 22.1)
"Apartment"
means a room or suite of rooms which is occupied or designed
to be occupied by one family for living or sleeping purposes.
(Prior code § 22.1)
"Division"
means the water division of the public works department of
the city.
(Ord. 1784 § 2, 2003)
"Family"
means every head of a family; every unmarried person maintaining
a residence or place of abode for him or herself, or for himself or
herself and others; every person other than a guest in a hotel, rooming
house, lodging house or boarding house to whom water is furnished
from the water system of the city for use in any building.
(Prior code § 22.1)
"Home"
means every building other than those otherwise defined in
this section.
(Prior code § 22.1)
"Office"
means a room or suite of rooms used by a person, or two or
more persons, as a place for the transaction of their business.
(Prior code § 22.1)
"Person"
means a natural person, his or her heirs, personal representatives,
and also includes a firm, copartnership, joint venture, association,
social club, fraternal organization, corporation, estate, trust, trust
business, receiver, syndicate or any group or combination acting as
a unit.
(Prior code § 22.1)
"Service"
means every meter through which water is furnished.
(Prior code § 22.1)
"Storeroom"
means a room or suite of rooms located upon the ground floor
of a building and used as a place for the transaction of business.
(Prior code § 22.1)
"Subdivider"
means a person who causes land to be divided into a subdivision
by the filing and recording of a map thereof, or by dividing land
without making, filing or recording a map thereof for him or herself
or for others.
(Prior code § 22.1)
"Subdivision"
means any real property improved or unimproved which is divided
for the purpose of sale, whether immediate or future, by any subdivider
either by the filing and recording of a map thereof or in any other
manner whether a map thereof is made or not made as long as property
is or has been divided for sale or is sold, and whether descriptions
thereof are or were by metes and bounds or otherwise.
(Prior code § 22.1)