As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
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 the same
premises with a dwelling.
APPROVED
Approved by the local or state authority having such administrative
authority.
ASHES
The residue from the burning of combustible materials (and the noncombustible
portion of refuse loaded into an incinerator).
BASEMENT
A portion of a building located partly underground, but having less
than half its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of the
adjoining ground.
CELLAR
A portion of a building located partly or wholly underground and
having half or more than half of the clear floor-to-ceiling height below the
average grade of the adjoining ground.
CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEM
A single system supplying heat to one or more dwelling unit(s) or
more than one rooming unit.
CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
The official charged with the administration and enforcement of this
chapter, or his authorized representative.
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 WINDOW
Every sleeping room shall have at least one operable window or exterior
door approved for emergency egress or rescue.
EXTERMINATION
The control and elimination of insects, rodents or other pests by
eliminating their harborages; by removing or making inaccessible materials
that may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating or trapping
or by any other recognized and legal pest elimination methods approved by
the Health Officer.
FAMILY
Any number of individuals related by blood or marriage or not more
than six persons not so related living together in a dwelling or dwelling
unit as a single housekeeping unit.
FLUSH WATER CLOSET
A toilet bowl flushed with water under pressure with a water-sealed
trap above the floor level.
FOOTCANDLE
A unit for measuring light or illumination. This measurement is done
by a light meter.
GARBAGE
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation,
cooking, serving and nonconsumption of food.
GROUND FAULT CIRCUIT INTERRUPTER (GFCI)
A safety device used to break the flow of electricity by opening
the circuit automatically at the least amount of fault to prevent injury to
persons using the appliance.
GUEST
Any person who shares a dwelling unit in a nonpermanent status for
not more than 30 days in a calendar year.
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, foyers or communicating corridors, stairways, closets,
storage spaces and workshops, hobby and recreation areas in unsealed or uninsulated
parts of a structure below ground level or in attics, or hobby and recreation
areas for communal use in buildings containing several dwelling units.
HEALTH OFFICER
The legally designated health authority of the Town of Wallingford,
or his authorized representative.
HEATED WATER
Water heated to a temperature of not less than 120° F. at the
outlet.
INFESTATION
The presence within or around a dwelling or other structure in large
numbers of insects, rodents or other pests.
KITCHEN or KITCHENETTE
Any room containing any or all of the following equipment, or area
of a room within three feet of such equipment: sink and/or other device for
dish washing, stove or other device for cooking, refrigerator or other device
for cool storage of food.
LAVATORY
A bowl or basin for washing the face and hands, or a room equipped
with such a basin.
LEAD PAINT
Any pigmented, liquid substance applied to surfaces by brush, roller
or spray, in which the total nonvolatile ingredient contains more than 1%
of lead, by weight, calculated as metallic lead.
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 or control of a building, or part
thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming units are let.
OWNER
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others:
(1)
Shall have legal title to any dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without
accompanying actual possession thereof; or
(2)
Shall have charge, care or control of any 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 as family to reside in a
dwelling unit or rooming unit based on the required square footage per person
in habitable rooms.
PERSON
Includes 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 other similar supplied fixtures, together with all connections to water,
sewer, septic tank or gas lines.
PREMISES
A plotted lot or part thereof or unplotted lot or parcel of land
or plot of land, either occupied or unoccupied by any dwelling or nondwelling
structure, and includes any such building or other structure thereon.
PRIVACY
The ability of a person or persons to carry out an activity commenced
without observation, unwarranted interruption or unwarranted interference,
either by sight or sound, by unwanted persons.
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.
ROOMING HOUSE
Any dwelling or that part of any dwelling containing one or more
rooming units, in which space is let by the owner or operator to three or
more persons who are not husband or wife, son or daughter, mother or father,
or sister or brother of the owner, provided that hospitals, homes for the
aged and other institutions licensed by the Connecticut State Department of
Health under the General Statutes shall not be regarded as rooming houses.
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 or eating
purposes.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes (excluding ashes) consisting of both:
(1)
Combustible wastes, such as paper, cardboard, plastic containers, yard
clippings and wood; and
(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.
SEPTIC TANK
A receptacle, usually underground, to which sewage is drained and
retained to effect disintegration of the organic matter by bacteria, and as
defined in Section 19-13-B20A of the Connecticut Public Health Code.
SPACE HEATER
A self-contained, automatically controlled, vented, fuel-burning
appliance of either the circulating type or the radiant type.
SUPPLIED
Paid for, furnished, provided by or under the control of the owner
or operator.
TEMPORARY HOUSING
Any tent, trailer, mobile home or any other structure used for human
shelter which is designed to be transportable and is not attached to the ground,
to another structure or to any utility system on the same premises for more
than 30 consecutive days.
VENTILATION
The process of supplying or removing air by natural or mechanical
means to or from any space. Such air may or may not have been conditioned.
YARD
An open unoccupied space, on the same lot with a building, extending
along the entire length of a street or rear or interior lot line, or other
unoccupied space on a lot with a building.