Sec. 15.1-1. Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and
phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by
this section:
Basement. A story having part but not more than one-half of
its height below grade. A basement is counted as a story for the
purpose of height regulations if subdivided and used for business
or dwelling purposes by others than a janitor employed on the
premises.
Cellar. A story having more than one-half its height below
grade.
Dwelling. Any building which is wholly or partly used or
intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants.
Dwelling unit. Any room or group of rooms forming a single
habitable unit with facilities which are used or intended to be used
for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
Enforcing officer. The city housing inspector, who shall be
employed in the public works department, subject to the
supervision and control of the superintendent of inspections.
Extermination. The control and elimination of insects, rodents
or other pests by eliminating their harborage places, by removing
or making inaccessable 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
enforcing officer.
Garbage. The animal and vegetable waste resulting from
the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
Grade. With reference to a building, such term shall mean,
when the curb level has been established, the mean elevation of
the curb level opposite those walls that are located on, or parallel
with and within fifteen feet of street lines; or, when the curb level
has not been established, or all the walls of the building are more
than fifteen feet from street lines, "grade" means the average of
the finished ground level at the center of all walls of a building.
Habitable room. A room occupied or designed to be occupied by
one or more persons for living, eating or sleeping, but not
including toilets, laundries, serving and storage space, corridors,
cellars, halls and spaces not used frequently or during extended
periods.
Infestation. The presence of household pests, vermin or rodents
on the premises.
Multiple dwelling. A building or portion thereof designed for
occupancy by three or more families.
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.
Ordinary minimum winter conditions. The temperature twenty
degrees Fahrenheit above the lowest recorded temperature for the
previous fifteen year period.
Owner. Any person who, alone or jointly, or severally with
others:
(a) Shall have legal title to any dwelling or dwelling unit; or
(b) Shall have charge, care or control of any dwelling or
dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or guardian of the
estate of the owner.
Plumbing. All gas pipes or burning equipment, waste pipes,
water pipes, water closets, sinks, lavatories, bathtubs,
catchbasins, drains, vents or other fixtures, together with their
connections to the water, sewer or gas lines.
Premises. Any land, together with any buildings or structures
occupying it.
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. (10-5-64; 3-3-69; 7-2-73.)
