As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A building or structure, the use of which is incidental to
the use of a dwelling and which is located in the yard around the
dwelling.
Any person who alone, jointly or severally with
others shall:
By virtue of any agreement, written or oral,
with the owner be held, concurrently with the owner, responsible for
the occupancy, charge, care, maintenance or transfer of title of such
property.
Include but not be limited to attorneys, real
estate agents, brokers, managers or salespersons, rental agents or
managers, executors, administrators, trustees, or heirs, persons acting
on behalf of a decedent or an incompetent or disabled individual,
or persons acting generally on behalf of another with their expressed
or implied permission in regards to the property.
Any such person thus representing the owner
shall be bound to comply with the provisions of this chapter and of
the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, to the same extent
as if (s)he were the owner.
A portion of a building located partly underground, but having
3 1/2 feet or more of its floor-to-ceiling height above the average
level of the adjacent finished grade.
A portion of a building located partly or wholly underground
and having less than 3 1/2 feet or more of its floor-to-ceiling height
above the average grade level of the adjacent finished grade.
Any house or building or portion thereof which is used or
intended to be used in whole or in part as a home, residence or sleeping
place of one or more human beings, either permanently or transiently;
and shall include any building that could be or would be intended
to be used for such purposes except for its state of disrepair.
A single unit providing complete, independent living facilities
for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living,
sleeping, cooking and sanitation.
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 or trapping; or by any other recognized and legal
pest-elimination methods approved by the Housing Inspector.
An individual or married couple and children thereof with
not more than two other persons related directly to the individual
or married couple by blood or marriage or a group of not more than
five unrelated persons, living together as a single housekeeping unit
in a dwelling unit.
The animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
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.
The Housing Inspector of the Department of Inspections of
the City of Trenton or his/her authorized representative.
The presence, within or around a dwelling, of any insects,
rodents or other pests.
Any public nuisance known at public law or in
equity jurisprudence, or as provided by the statutes of the State
of New Jersey or the ordinances of the City of Trenton.
Any attractive nuisance which may prove detrimental
to the health or safety of children whether in a building, on the
premises of a building, or upon an unoccupied lot, including, but
not limited to, abandoned wells, shafts, basements, excavations, abandoned
ice boxes, refrigerators, motor vehicles, any structurally unsound
fences or structures, lumber, trash, fences, debris and vegetation
such as poison ivy, oak or sumac, which may prove a hazard for inquisitive
minors.
Physical conditions dangerous to human life
or detrimental to the health of persons on or near the premises where
the conditions exist.
Overcrowding of a room with occupants in violation
of this chapter.
Insufficient ventilation or illumination in
violation of this chapter.
Inadequate or unsanitary sewage or plumbing
facilities in violation of this chapter.
Unsanitary conditions or anything offensive
to the senses or dangerous to health in violation of this chapter.
Whatever renders air, food or drink unwholesome
or detrimental to the health of human beings.
Fire hazards.
Any person, over one year of age, living, sleeping, cooking
or eating in or having actual possession of a dwelling unit or rooming
unit.
Any person who has charge, care or control of a building,
or part thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming units are let.
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally
with others, shall have:
Legal equitable title to any dwelling or dwelling
unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof.
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 (s)he were the owner.
All individuals, associations and corporations who have interest
of record in a dwelling and who are in actual possession of the dwelling.
Any individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership.
All of the following supplied facilities and equipment: gas
pipes, gas burning equipment, water pipes, water closets, sinks, installed
dishwashers, lavatories, bathtubs, shower baths, installed clothes
washing machines, catch basins, drains, vents any other similar supplied
fixtures, together with all connections to water, sewer or gas lines.
A lot, piece or parcel of land including the buildings or
structures thereon.
To restore to a sound and acceptable state of operation,
serviceability or appearance. Repairs shall be expected to last approximately
as long as would the replacement by new items.
To remove an existing item or portion of a system, and to
construct or install a new item of similar or improved quality as
the existing item when new. Replacement will ordinarily take place
where the item is incapable of repair or where repair would be more
costly.
Any lodging house, boardinghouse or nursing home, including
hotels, tourist homes, fraternity and sorority houses, or any dwelling,
or that part of any dwelling, containing three or more rooming units
each of which is rented by one or more persons not related to the
owner or operator.
Any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit
occupied or intended to be occupied for sleeping or living, but not
for cooking purposes.
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.
Paid for, furnished or provided by, or under the control
of, the owner or operator.
As defined by state statute, any house or building or portion
thereof which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or
is occupied as the home or residence of three families or more living
independently of each other and doing their cooking upon the premises.
This definition shall not apply to a detached dwelling house of not
more than three stories and having central heating, and which is occupied
for occupancy by three families living independently where the space
provided for at least one of such families is not equipped with full
cooking facilities; provided, however, that this exception shall not
apply to any such dwelling house constructed or converted on or after
September 1, 1959.
The land, other than publicly owned land, around and appurtenant
to the whole or any part of a dwelling and used or capable of being
used in connection with the dwelling, whether or not the land is owned
by the owner of the building.
Whenever the words "dwelling," "dwelling unit,"
"rooming unit," and "premises" are used in this chapter, they shall
be construed as though they were followed by the words "or any part
thereof."
