Ordinance - #89-10 - 05/23/1989 - Laserfiche WebLink

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1) APPROVED: Approved as to construction, installation, and maintenance in accordance with applicable statutes of the State and the provisions of the City ordinances. 2) BASEMENT: That portion of a building between floor and ceiling, which is partly below grade but so located that the vertical distance from grade to floor below is less than the vertical distance from grade to ceiling. 3) BATH: Bath shall mean a bathtub or shower stall. 4) BEDROOM: A habitable room within a dwelling unit which is used or intended to be used primarily for the purpose of sleeping, but shall not include any kitchen or dining area. 5) CLEAN: The absence of rubbish, garbage, vermin, and other unsightly, offensive, or extraneous matter. 6) DWELLING UNIT: Is one or more rooms, including complete kitchen and bathroom facilities, used as living quarters exclusively by one family. 7) EASILY CLEANABLE: Readily accessible and of such material and finish and so fabricated and placed that residue which may accumulate can be completely removed by normal cleaning methods. 8) EGRESS WINDOW: All sleeping rooms shall be provided with emergency egress windows complying with the U.B.C. 9) EMERGENCY EGRESS WINDOW: Sleeping rooms in basements shall be provided with egress windows confirming to Section R-211. Sleeping rooms in rental dwellings shall also comply. 10) EXIT: A continuous and unobstructed means of egress to a public or private way and shall include intervening doors, doorways, corridors, ramps, stairways, smoke proof enclosures, horizontal exits, exit passageways, exit courts and yards. 11) FUNCTIONING: In such physical condition as to safely perform the service or services for which an item is designed or intended. 12) GARBAGE: Includes all putrescible animal, vegetable, or other matter that attends the preparation, consumption, display, dealing in or storage of meat, fish, fowl, birds, fruit or vegetables, including the cans, containers or wrappers wasted along with such materials. 13) HABITABLE ROOM: 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, furnace rooms, unfinished basements, pantries, utility rooms, foyers, communicating corridors, stairways, closets, storage spaces, and attics. 14) INFESTATION: The presence within or around a dwelling of any insect, rodent, or other pests. 15) KITCHEN: A habitable room intended to be used for the cooking of food or the preparation of meals. 16) MAINTENANCE: To keep in a good state of repair; to preserve from deterioration.