<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 4-121. - Definitions.</div>
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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">City</span> means any incorporated city or any county.
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               <span class="ital">Dwelling</span> means any building, structure, manufactured home, house trailer or mobile home, or
               part thereof, used and occupied for human habitation or intended to be so used, and
               includes any outhouses and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith.
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               <span class="ital">House trailer</span> means any trailer or semitrailer designed and equipped to provide living or sleeping
               facilities and drawn by a motor vehicle as more particularly set forth in G.S. 20-4.01(14).
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               <span class="ital">Manufactured home</span> and <span class="ital">mobile home</span> mean structures as defined in G.S. 143-145(7).
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               <span class="ital">Owner</span> means the holder of the title in fee simple and every mortgage of record.
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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">Public authority</span> means any housing authority or any officer who is in charge of any department or
               branch of the government of any city, county, or the state relating to health, fire,
               building regulations, or other activities concerning dwellings in the county.
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               <span class="ital">Public officer</span> means the officer who is authorized by this article to exercise the powers prescribed
               by this article.
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               (Ord. of 10-4-88)
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            <p class="refcross0" block_type="hang"><b>Cross referenceâ€” </b>
               Definitions and rules of construction generally, <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH1GEPR_S1-2DERUCO" class="section-link" data-product-id="12419">Â§ 1-2</a>.
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            <p class="refstatelaw0" block_type="hang"><b>State Law referenceâ€” </b>
               Similar provisions, G.S. 160A-442.
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