<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 14-183. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this
               article:
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               <span class="ital">Basement</span> shall mean a portion of a building which is located wholly or 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> shall mean 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> shall mean 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 current tax value. The inspector shall
               make this determination.
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               <span class="ital">Dilapidated</span> shall mean 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 current tax value. The inspector
               shall make this determination.
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               <span class="ital">Dwelling</span> shall mean any building, structure, manufactured home or mobile home, or part thereof,
               used and occupied for human habitation or is intended to be so used, and includes
               any outhouses and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith, except
               that it does not include any manufactured home or mobile home which is used solely
               for a seasonal vacation purpose as defined in G.S. 160A-442.
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               <span class="ital">Dwelling unit</span> shall mean 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.
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               <span class="ital">Extermination</span> shall mean 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 inspector.
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               <span class="ital">Garbage</span> shall mean the animal waste and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation,
               cooking and consumption of food; or other household items or useless materials that
               are worthless, unimportant or of poor quality and intended to be discarded.
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               <span class="ital">Habitable room</span> shall mean 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, or communicating corridors, closets and storage spaces.
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               <span class="ital">Infestation</span> shall mean 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> shall mean a building inspector of the county or any agent of the inspector who is
               authorized by the inspector.
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               <span class="ital">Manufactured home</span> shall be a residential dwelling unit, designed for transportation after fabrication
               on its own wheels or on flatbeds, or other trailers, and arriving at the site where
               it is to be occupied as a dwelling unit complete and ready for occupancy except for
               minor incidental unpacking and assembly operations including, but not limited to,
               location on jacks or other temporary or permanent foundation, and connection to utilities.
               Travel trailers, campers and recreational vehicles shall not be considered mobile
               homes. For the purposes of this article, the term "mobile home" shall be inclusive
               of the term "manufactured home" as the term manufactured home is defined by the North
               Carolina General Statutes.
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               <span class="ital">Modular home</span> is a residential dwelling unit that is prefabricated offsite and assembled in sections
               onsite on a permanent foundation. Modular homes are built to the standards of the
               North Carolina Building Code. This type of home is not considered a manufactured home.
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               <span class="ital">Multiple dwelling</span> shall mean any dwelling containing more than two dwelling units.
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               <span class="ital">Occupant</span> shall mean any person, 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> shall mean any person who has charge, care or control of a building or part thereof,
               in which dwellings units or rooming units are let.
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               <span class="ital">Owner</span> shall mean any person who alone, or jointly, or severally with others;
               
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                  (1)
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                  Shall have title to any dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual
                  possession thereof; or
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                  (2)
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                  Shall have charge, care or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner or agent
                  of the owner, or as executor, executrix, 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 adapted
                  pursuant thereto, to the same extent as if he were the owner.
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               <span class="ital">Plumbing</span> shall mean and include all of the following supplied facilities and equipment gas
               pipes, gas burning equipment, water pipes, mechanical garbage disposal units (mechanical
               sink grinder), waste pipes, water closets, sinks; installed dishwashers, lavatories,
               bathtubs, shower baths, installed clothes washing machines, catch basin, drains, vents
               and any other similar supplied fixtures, together with all connections to water, sewer
               or gas lines.
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               <span class="ital">Public authority</span> shall mean the County of Wayne or any officer who is in charge of any department
               of branch of the government of Wayne County or the State of North Carolina relating
               to government of Wayne County or the State of North Carolina relating to health, fire
               building regulations, or other activities concerning dwellings in the county.
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               <span class="ital">Recreation vehicle</span> shall mean a vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis, with permanent wheels,
               designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation
               used towed or driven and having a width not in excess of eight feet.
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               <span class="ital">Rooming unit</span> shall mean 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">Rooming house</span> shall mean 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 or daughter, mother or father or sister or brother of
               the owner or operator.
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               <span class="ital">Rubbish</span> shall mean combustible and noncombustible waste materials except garbage and ashes,
               and the term shall include paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather,
               tree branches, yard trimming, tin cans, metals, minerals matter, glass crockery and
               dust.
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               <span class="ital">Stick-built home</span> shall be defined as a home that is "stick-built" is constructed on the building site,
               piece by piece. Manufactured and modular homes are not classified as stick-built because
               they are made mostly in the factory and then transported to the site. A custom home
               and a homemade according to stock building plans may both be stick-built, provided
               that they are constructed on the land where they will remain.
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               <span class="ital">Supplies</span> shall mean 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> shall mean temporary migrant labor housing.
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               <span class="ital">Transportable housing</span> shall mean 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 utilities system.
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               <span class="ital">Unfit for human habitation</span> shall mean 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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               <span class="ital">Meaning of certain words.</span> Whenever the words "dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming house, rooming unit, 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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               (Ord. of 11-1-2016(1), art. B, Â§ 3)
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