§ 34-61. 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:

Building means any public or private structure that is used or adapted for use for human habitation, for transaction of business, for rendering professional services, for amusement or pleasure, for the production, manufacture, display, storage or treatment of goods, wares or merchandise, or for the performance of work or labor.

Occupant means a person who has the use of or occupies a building or a part or fraction thereof, whether the owner or tenant thereof, and in the case of a vacant building or vacant portion of a building, the owner, agent of the owner or other person having the care, custody, possession or control of the building.

Owner means the person who holds legal title to a building, or the agent of such person, or such other person having the care, custody, possession or control of a building or to whom rent therefor is paid.

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

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

(Code 1961, § 13-29; Code 1985, § 10-41)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.