For the purposes of this chapter, the following words
and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them
by this section:
BASEMENT
A portion of a building located partly underground but having
less than 1/2 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 1/2 or more than 1/2 of its clear floor-to-ceiling height
below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
DIRECTOR OF HEALTH
The legally designated health authority of the Town or his
authorized representative.
DWELLING
Any building which is wholly or partly used or arranged or
designed to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants.
DWELLING UNIT
Any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling and
forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used, arranged
or designed to be occupied for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
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 food, by poisoning, spraying,
fumigating, trapping or by any other recognized and legal pest elimination
methods which have been approved by the Director of Health.
GARBAGE
Any animal or vegetable matter, or product of the putrefaction
or decomposition thereof, which accumulates in the preparation of
food and any other refuse or waste subject to decay.
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, pantries, foyers or communicating
corridors, closets and storage spaces.
INFESTATION
The presence, within or around a dwelling, of any insects,
rodents or other pests.
OCCUPANT
Any person, over one year of age, living, sleeping, cooking
or eating in, or having actual possession of, a dwelling unit or rooming
unit.
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 as executor,
executrix, administrator, administratrix, 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."
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 supplies or fixtures,
together with all connections to water, sewer or gas lines.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any park, cemetery, schoolyard or open space adjacent thereto
or any open or closed area where the public may congregate.
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 or operator.
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
Combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage,
and the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal,
coke and other combustible material, paper, rags, cartons, boxes,
wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin
cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery and dust.
STREET
Any public street, side walk or gutter or private or unaccepted
street, sidewalk or gutter which is open to the public.
SUPPLIED
Paid for, furnished or provided by or under the control of
the owner or operator.
TEMPORARY HOUSING
Any tent, trailer or 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 utilities system on the
same premises for more than 30 consecutive days.