<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 10-27. - Definitions.</div>
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               (a)
               
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               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:
               
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               <span class="ital">Basement</span> means a portion of a building which is located partly underground, having direct
               access to light and air from windows located above the level of the adjoining ground.
               
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               <span class="ital">Cellar</span> means a portion of a building located partly or wholly underground having inadequate
               access to light and air from windows located partly or wholly below the level of the
               adjoining ground.
               
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               <span class="ital">Deteriorated</span> means that a dwelling is unfit for human habitation and can be repaired, altered,
               or improved to comply with all of the minimum standards established by this article
               at a cost not in excess of 50 percent of its value, as determined by findings of the
               building code administrator.
               
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               <span class="ital">Dilapidated</span> means that a dwelling is unfit for human habitation and cannot be repaired, altered
               or improved to comply with all of the minimum standards established by this article
               at a cost not in excess of 50 percent of its value, as determined by findings of the
               building code administrator based on the tax value recorded.
               
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               <span class="ital">Dwelling</span> means any building which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living
               or sleeping by human occupants; provided that temporary housing shall not be regarded
               as a dwelling.
               
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               <span class="ital">Dwelling unit</span> means 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. The term "dwelling unit" includes mobile home units.
               
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               <span class="ital">Extermination</span> means the control and elimination of insects, rodents or other pests by eliminating
               their harborage places, removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as
               their food, poisoning, spraying, fumigating, trapping or by any other recognized and
               legal pest elimination methods approved by the building code administrator.
               
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               <span class="ital">Garbage</span> means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking
               and consumption of food.
               
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               <span class="ital">Gas piping</span> means piping, fittings, regulators, devices and gas appliances installed.
               
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               <span class="ital">Habitable room</span> means 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,
               heater rooms, foyers, communicating corridors, closets and storage spaces.
               
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               <span class="ital">Infestation</span> means the presence, within or around a dwelling, of any insects, rodents or other
               pests in such number as to constitute a menace to the health, safety or welfare of
               the occupants or the public.
               
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               <span class="ital">Inspector</span> means the building code administrator of the county.
               
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               <span class="ital">Multiple dwelling</span> means any dwelling containing more than two dwelling units.
               
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               <span class="ital">Occupant</span> means any person over one year of age living, sleeping, cooking or eating in or having
               actual possession of a dwelling unit or rooming unit.
               
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               <span class="ital">Operator</span> means any person who has charge, care or control of a building or part thereof in
               which dwelling units or rooming units are let.
               
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               <span class="ital">Owner</span> means any person who alone, jointly or severally with others:
               
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                  Has fee simple title to any dwelling or dwelling unit, and every mortgagee, and owner
                  and holder of a deed of trust and the trustee therein of record, with or without accompanying
                  actual possession of such dwelling or dwelling unit; or
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  Has 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 article, and of rules and regulations adopted pursuant
                  thereto, to the same extent as if he were the owner.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Parties in interest</span> means all individuals, associations and corporations who have interests of record
               in a dwelling and any who are in possession thereof.
               
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               <span class="ital">Plumbing</span> means and includes all of the following supplied facilities and equipment: water
               service piping and fittings, water distribution piping and fittings, soil and waste
               drains and vents, building drains, building sewers, mechanical garbage disposal units
               (mechanical sink grinder), water closets, sinks, dishwashers, lavatories, water heaters,
               bathtubs, hot tubs, showers, clothes washing machines, stormwater piping, catchbasins,
               manholes, and any other similar supplied fixtures, together with connections to water
               or sewer.
               
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               <span class="ital">Public authority</span> means the board of commissioners or any officer who is in charge of any department
               or branch of the government of the county or the state, the towns, cities, councils
               or boards relating to health, fire, building regulations or other activities concerning
               dwellings in the county.
               
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               <span class="ital">Rooming unit</span> means 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.
               
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               <span class="ital">Roominghouse</span> means 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 and wife, son, daughter, mother, father, sister or brother of the
               owner or operator.
               
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               <span class="ital">Rubbish</span> means combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage and ashes, and
               includes paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches,
               yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass crockery and dust.
               
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               <span class="ital">Supplied</span> means paid for, furnished, or provided by, or under the control of the owner or operator.
               
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               <span class="ital">Temporary housing</span> means 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's system on the same premises for more than 30 consecutive days.
               
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               <span class="ital">Unfit for human habitation</span> means that conditions exist in a dwelling which violate or do not comply with one
               or more of the minimum standards of fitness or one or more of the requirements established
               by this article.
               
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               (b)
               
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               Whenever the words "dwelling," "dwelling unit," "roominghouse," "rooming unit" or
               "premises" are used in this article, they shall be construed as though they were followed
               by the words "or any part thereof."
               
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               (Code 1993, Â§ 10-27; Ord. of 4-2-1991(2), Â§ 2)
               
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