In this chapter the following words and phrases are defined as follows:
City
means the City of Irving.
Evacuation capability
means the ability of occupants, residents, and staff as a group either to evacuate a building or to relocate from the point of occupancy to a point of safety.
Fire chief
means the Chief of the City of Irving Fire Department and his or her designee.
Fire department
means the City of Irving Fire Department.
Landlord
means the owner, owner's agent, lessor or sublessor of a dwelling; any person who has control of the dwelling unit.
Manager
means a person in control of the property. This term includes landlord.
Owner
means a person claiming, or in whom is vested, the ownership, dominion, or title to real property, including but not limited to:
(1) 
The owner of fee simple title;
(2) 
The holder of a life estate;
(3) 
The holder of a leasehold estate for an initial term of five (5) years or more;
(4) 
The buyer in a contract for deed;
(5) 
A mortgagee, receiver, executor, or trustee in control of real property;
(6) 
The landlord, lessor or sublessor of a dwelling or apartment building; and
(7) 
The agent of the owner, lease-holder, landlord, lessor, sublessor, buyer, mortgagee, or other person in control of the property.
Person
means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate trust, partnership, association, two (2) or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity.
Personal care
means assistance in meeting the demands of daily living provided to a resident by a person who is paid for the service and who is not related by blood or marriage to all the persons in the facility to whom this assistance is afforded. The phrase includes but is not limited to one or more of the following: Assuming responsibility for the safety of the resident while the resident is in the facility, being aware of the resident's functioning and whereabouts, making and reminding the resident of appointments, being ready and able to intervene in the event of a resident's crises, furnishing emergency pull cords in bedrooms and other resident living areas, providing staff whose duties include responding to emergency notification by the resident, supervising the resident's nutrition and medication, providing planned activities for the resident, and providing to the resident the kind of medical care that is normally provided in the home by one family member for another.
Property manager
means a person who has managing control of real property. In a condominium regime, this includes the council of owners.
Residential board and care facility
means a facility designed for or used as a residence for sixteen (16) or more persons who are not all related by blood or marriage to the staff or to the owner of the facility in which the staff provides personal care but not nursing care or acute care to the residents or the majority of whose residents were sixty-two (62) years of age or older or were disabled and were capable of independent living when each of them first began to reside at the facility. The phrase does not include nursing homes or hospitals. The phrase includes but is not limited to boarding homes, board and care homes, halfway houses, retirement homes, rooming houses, an community living facilities.
(Ordinance 7012, § 1, adopted 4/8/1997)
The owner, landlord, manager and property manager of each residential board and care facility in the city shall provide each building in the facility designed for, used as, or which contains living or sleeping quarters with an automatic sprinkler system in compliance with NFPA 13R Standard for the installation of sprinkler systems in residential occupancies which provides complete sprinkler protection in all living areas, sleeping areas, closets, bathrooms, hallways, stairways, meeting and community rooms, offices, store rooms, and similar areas and which is enhanced with a fire department connection, attic protection, and monitoring by a central station and shall maintain it in proper working condition at all times the facility is occupied by any person.
(Ordinance 7012, § 1, adopted 4/8/1997)
The owner, landlord, manager and property manager shall ensure that the staff of each residential board and care facility under his or her control conducts fire drills at least once a month at the time of day or night when evacuation of the facility would be most difficult which are directed, supervised, and documented by the fire chief in order for him or her to ascertain the facility's evacuation capability.
(Ordinance 7012, § 1, adopted 4/8/1997)
Any person violating or failing to comply with any provision of this chapter shall be fined upon conviction, not less than two hundred dollars ($200.00) nor more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00). Each day in which a violation of this chapter exists is a separate offense. Each structure or ground which is in violation of any part of this chapter is a separate offense. Each violation in any structure or ground is a separate offense.
(Ordinance 7012, § 1, adopted 4/8/1997)