General definitions:
APPROVED
Approved by the Code Enforcement Official.
AREA OF PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
Includes a building or a portion of a building used for the
gathering together of 50 or more persons for amusement, athletic,
civic, dining, educational, patriotic, political, recreational, religious,
social or similar purposes, the entire fire area of which it is a
part, and the means of egress therefrom.
BASEMENT
That portion of a building which is partly or completely
below grade.
BATHROOM
A room containing plumbing fixtures including a bathtub or
shower.
BEDROOM
Any room or space used or intended to be used for sleeping
purposes in either a dwelling or sleeping unit.
BUILDING
A combination of any materials, whether portable or fixed,
having a roof, to form a structure affording shelter for persons,
animals or property. The term "building" shall also mean "factory-manufactured
home" and "mobile home." The term "building" shall not include a temporary
greenhouse.
CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL
The Village of East Aurora's Code Enforcement Officer, or other designated authority charged with the administration and enforcement of this code, as set forth at Chapter
108 of the Village of East Aurora Code, or a duly authorized representative.
CONDEMN
To adjudge unfit for occupancy.
CONSTRUCTION
The construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion,
repair, installation of equipment or use of buildings, and requirements
or standards relating to or affecting materials used in connection
therewith, including provisions for safety and sanitary conditions.
DWELLING UNIT
A single unit providing complete, independent living facilities
for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living,
sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
EASEMENT
That portion of land or property reserved for present or
future use by a person or agency other than the legal fee owner(s)
of the property. The easement shall be permitted to be for use under,
on or above a lot or lots.
EQUIPMENT
Plumbing, heating, electrical, ventilating, air conditioning,
refrigerating equipment, elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators and other
mechanical additions or installations.
EXTERIOR PROPERTY
The open space on the premises and on adjoining property
under the control of the owners or operators of such premises.
EXTERMINATION
The control and elimination of insects, rats or other pests
by eliminating their harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible
materials that serve as their food; by poison spraying, fumigating,
trapping; or by any other approved pest elimination methods.
GARBAGE
The animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
GUARD
A building component or a system of building components located
at or near the open sides of elevated walking surfaces that minimizes
the possibility of a fall from the walking surface to a lower level.
HABITABLE SPACE
Space in a structure for living, sleeping, eating or cooking.
Bathrooms, toilet rooms, closets, halls, storage or utility spaces,
and similar areas are not considered habitable spaces.
HOUSEKEEPING UNIT
A room or group of rooms forming a single habitable space
equipped and intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and
eating which does not contain, within such a unit, a toilet, lavatory
and bathtub or shower.
IMMINENT DANGER
A condition which could cause serious or life-threatening
injury or death at any time.
INFESTATION
The presence within or contiguous to a structure or premises
of insects, rats, vermin or other pests.
INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLE
A motor vehicle which cannot be driven upon the public streets
for reasons including but not limited to being unlicensed, wrecked,
abandoned, in a state of disrepair, or incapable of being moved under
its own power.
LABELED
Devices, equipment, appliances, or materials to which have
been affixed a label, seal, symbol or other identifying mark of a
nationally recognized testing laboratory, inspection agency or other
organization concerned with product evaluation that maintains periodic
inspection of the production of the above-labeled items and by which
label the manufacturer attests to compliance with applicable nationally
recognized standards.
LET FOR OCCUPANCY or LET
To permit, provide or offer possession or occupancy of a
dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming unit, building, premises or structure
by a person who is or is not the legal owner of record thereof, pursuant
to a written or unwritten lease, agreement or license, or pursuant
to a recorded or unrecorded agreement of contract for the sale of
land.
OCCUPANCY
The purpose for which a building or portion thereof is utilized
or occupied.
OCCUPANT
Any individual living or sleeping in a building, or having
possession of a space within a building.
OPENABLE AREA
That part of a window, skylight or door which is available
for unobstructed ventilation and which opens directly to the outdoors.
OPERATOR
Any person who has charge, care or control of a structure
or premises which is let or offered for occupancy.
OWNER
Any person, agent, operator, firm or corporation having a
legal or equitable interest in the property; or recorded in the official
records of the state, county or municipality as holding title to the
property; or otherwise having control of the property, including the
guardian of the estate of any such person, and the executor or administrator
of the estate of such person if ordered to take possession of real
property by a court.
PERSON
An individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability
company, or any other group acting as a unit.
PREMISES
A lot, plot or parcel of land, easement or public way, including
any structures thereon.
PUBLIC WAY
Any street, alley or similar parcel of land essentially unobstructed
from the ground to the sky, which is deeded, dedicated or otherwise
permanently appropriated to the public for public use.
ROOMING HOUSE
A building arranged or occupied for lodging, with or without
meals, for compensation, and not occupied as a one- or two-family
dwelling.
ROOMING UNIT
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.
RUBBISH
Combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage;
the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal,
coke and other combustible materials, paper, rags, cartons, boxes,
wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin
cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery and dust and other similar
materials; this term shall also include discarded, abandoned or stored
refrigerators.
SLEEPING UNIT
A room or space in which people sleep, which can also include
permanent provisions for living, eating and either sanitation or kitchen
facilities, but not both. Such rooms and spaces that are also part
of a dwelling unit are not sleeping units.
STATE CODE
For the purposes of this code, the most current version of
the Property Maintenance Code of New York State.
STOP-WORK ORDER
A stop-work order shall be used by the Code Enforcement Official,
or a duly authorized representative, to halt work that is determined
to be contrary to provisions of this code or the State Code, or is
being conducted in a dangerous or unsafe manner, or is being performed
without obtaining a required permit. A stop-work order shall state
the reason for its issuance and the conditions which must be satisfied
before work will be permitted to resume. (See 19 NYCRR 1203.3(c).)
STRUCTURE
That which is built or constructed, or a portion thereof.
SWIMMING POOL
Any structure, basin, chamber or tank which is intended for
swimming, diving, recreational bathing or wading and which contains,
is designed to contain, or is capable of containing, water more than
24 inches (610 mm) deep at any point. This includes in-ground, aboveground
and on-ground pools; indoor pools; hot tubs; spas; and fixed-in-place
wading pools.
TENANT
A person, corporation, partnership or group, whether or not
the legal owner of record, occupying a building or portion thereof
as a unit.
TOILET ROOM
A room containing a water closet or urinal but not a bathtub
or shower.
VENTILATION
The natural or mechanical process of supplying conditioned
or unconditioned air to, or removing such air from, any space.
VILLAGE
The Village of East Aurora, New York.
VILLAGE BOARD
The Village Board of Trustees of the Village of East Aurora,
New York.
WEEDS
All grasses, annual plants and vegetation, other than trees
or shrubs; provided, however, that this term shall not include cultivated
flowers and gardens.
WORKMANLIKE
Executed in a skilled manner; e.g., generally plumb, level,
square, in line, undamaged and without marring adjacent work.
YARD
An open space on the same lot with a structure.