The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this chapter:
BASEMENT
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
Portion of a building located partly or wholly underground and having
half or more than half of its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average
grade of the adjoining ground.
DWELLING
Any building which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used
for living or sleeping by human occupants. "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.
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 their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, trapping;
or by any other recognized and legal pest elimination methods approved by
the Health Officer or Building Inspector.
GARBAGE
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation,
cooking and consumption of food.
HABITABLE ROOM
A room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living,
sleeping, cooking, operating 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, jointly or severally with others:
(1)
Shall have legal title to any dwelling or dwelling unit, 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, 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.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership.
PLUMBING
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 or
gas lines.
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, wife, son, daughter, mother, father, 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
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.
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 utility system on the same premises for more than
30 consecutive days.