§ 34-181. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Apartment house and tenement house mean every house, building or portion thereof which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied as the house, home or residence of more than two families, living independently of one another and doing their cooking on the premises, or by more than one family upon a floor, so living and cooking, but having no common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water closets or privies, or some of them.

Business building means any structure, whether public or private, that is adapted for occupancy for the transaction of business, for the rendering of professional services, for amusement, for the display, sale or storage of goods, wares or merchandise, or for the performance of work or labor, including hotels, roominghouses, office buildings, public buildings, stores, theaters, markets, restaurants, grain elevators, abattoirs, warehouses, workshops, factories and all other houses, sheds, barns and other structures on premises used for business purposes.

Occupant means the individual, firm, partnership or corporation that has the use of, controls or occupies any business building, apartment house or tenement house, or any portion thereof, whether owner or tenant. In the case of vacant business buildings, apartment houses or tenement houses, or any vacant portion of a business building, apartment house or tenement house, the owner, agent or other person having custody of the building shall have the responsibilities of an occupant of a building.

Owner means the owner or owners of any building or structure, whether an individual, firm, partnership or corporation.

Rat-harborage means any condition which provides shelter or protection for rats, thus favoring their multiplication and continued existence in, under or outside a structure of any kind.

Rat-stoppage means a form of ratproofing to prevent the ingress of rats into buildings from the exterior or from one building to another. It shall consist essentially of the closing of all openings in the exterior walls, ground or first floors, basements, roofs and foundations that may be reached by rats from the ground by climbing or by burrowing, with material or equipment impervious to rat gnawing.

(Code of Gen. Ords. 1967, § 18.119)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-10.