“Approved” means approved by the code official.
“Basement” means that portion of a building which is partly or completely below grade.
“Bathroom” means a room containing plumbing fixtures including a bathtub or shower.
“Bedroom” means any room or space used or intended to be used for sleeping purposes.
“Code official” means the official who is charged with the administration and enforcement of this code, or any duly authorized representative.
“Condemn” means to adjudge unfit for occupancy.
“Dwelling unit” means a single unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
“Exterior property” means the open space on the premises and on adjoining property under the control of owners or operators of such premises.
“Extermination” means the control and elimination of insects, rats or other pests: by eliminating their harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that serve as their food; by poison spraying, fumigating, trapping or by any other approved pest elimination methods.
“Garbage” means the animal or vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
“Guard” means a building component or a system of building components located at or near the open sides of elevated walking surfaces that minimizes the possibility of a fall from the walking surface to a lower level.
“HAND department” means housing and neighborhood development department.
“Habitable space” means space in a structure for living, sleeping, eating or cooking. Bathrooms, toilet rooms, closets, halls, storage or utility spaces, and similar areas are not considered habitable spaces.
“Housing code” means the International Property Maintenance Code, First Edition, 2000, and all amendments thereto as adopted in Chapter 16.04 of the Bloomington Municipal Code.
“Imminent danger” means a condition which could cause serious or life-threatening injury or death at any time.
“Infestation” means the presence, within or contiguous to, a structure or premises of insects, rats, vermin or other pests.
“Inoperable vehicle” means a vehicle that cannot be driven upon the public streets for reasons including but not limited to being unlicensed, abandoned, in a state of disrepair, or incapable of being moved under its own power.
“Labeled” means devices, equipment, appliances, or materials to which has been affixed a label, seal, symbol or other identifying mark of a nationally recognized testing laboratory, inspection agency or other organization concerned with product evaluation that maintains periodic inspection of the production of the above-labeled items and by whose label the manufacturer attests to compliance with applicable nationally recognized standards.
“Let for occupancy or let” means to permit, provide or offer possession or occupancy of a dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming unit, building, premise or structure by a person who is or is not the legal owner of record thereof, pursuant to a written or unwritten lease, agreement or license, or pursuant to a recorded or unrecorded agreement of contract for the sale of land.
“Multi-family dwelling” means three or more residential rental units in one building.
“Occupancy” means the purpose for which a building or portion thereof is utilized or occupied.
“Occupant” means any individual living or sleeping in a building, or having possession of a space within a building.
“Openable area” means that part of a window, skylight or door which is available for unobstructed ventilation and which opens directly to the outdoors.
“Operator” means any person who has charge, care or control of a structure or premises which is let or offered for occupancy.
“Owner” means any person, agent, operator, firm or corporation: having a legal or equitable interest in the property; recorded in the official records of the state, county or municipality as holding title to the property; or otherwise having control of the property, including the guardian of the estate of any such person, and the executor or administrator of the estate of such person if ordered to take possession of real property by a court. For the purposes of this code a person with a lease hold interest shall not be considered an owner.
“Person” means an individual, corporation, partnership or any other group acting as a unit.
“Premises” means a lot, plot or parcel of land including any structures thereon.
“Residential rental unit” means any dwelling unit, rooming house, or rooming unit occupied by a person or persons other than the owner and/or their legal dependant(s).
“Rooming house” means a building arranged or occupied for lodging, with or without meals, and not occupied as a one- or two-family dwelling.
“Rooming unit” means any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit occupied or intended to be occupied for sleeping or living, but not for cooking purposes.
“Rubbish” means combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage; the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke and other combustible materials, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery and dust and other similar materials.
“Structure” means that which is built or constructed or a portion thereof.
“Tenant” means a person, corporation, partnership or group, whether or not the legal owner of record, occupying or entitled to occupy a building or portion thereof as a unit.
“Tenancy agreement” includes all agreements, written, oral or implied, and valid rules and regulations embodying the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a rental unit and premises.
“Toilet room” means a room containing a water closet or urinal but not a bathtub or shower.
“Transient occupancy” means occupancy which is less than two weeks in duration in the same or similar units owned by the same owner.
“Ventilation” means the natural or mechanical process of supplying conditioned or unconditioned air to, or removing such air from, any space.
“Workmanlike” means executed in a skilled manner; e.g., generally plumb, level, square, in line, undamaged and without marring adjacent work.
“Yard” means an open space on the same lot with a structure. (Ord. 03-08 § 1 (part), 2003).