New Haven, Conn., Code of Ordinances tit. V § 100

The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this title:
(a) Authority shall mean the authority appointed pursuant to paragraph 500 of this title.
(b) Basement shall mean a portion of a building located partly underground, but having less than one-half of its clear floto-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground. Where the contour of the ground level immediately adjacent to the building is interrupted by ditching, pits, or trenching, the average adjoining ground level shall be the nearest contour line parallel to the walls of the building without regard to the level created by ditching, pits, or trenching.
(c) Cellar shall mean a portion of a building located partly or wholly underground, and having one-half or more than one-half of its clear floto-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
(d) Director of public health shall mean the legally designated health authority of the city, or their authorized representative.
(e) Dwelling shall mean any building which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants; provided that temporary housing as hereinafter defined in subparagraph (aa) of this paragraph shall not be regarded as a dwelling.
(f) Dwelling unit 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.
(g) Enforcing officer shall mean the Director of the Office of Building Inspection and Enforcement or the Director of the Livable City Initiative, except it shall mean the fire marshal with respect to any nuisance or other condition which constitutes a serious fire hazard, and it shall also mean director of public health with respect to the lead paint ordinance as amended (section 16-7 of the Code of Ordinances). The Director of the Office of Building Inspection and Enforcement or the Director of the Livable City Initiative may deputize one (1) or more members of their office, as well as members of other city departments, who have a particular skill or competence, to act for them; and the term "enforcing officer" as used elsewhere in this title shall be deemed to include such deputies, but no order or other enforcement action shall be issued unless approved and signed or countersigned by the Director of the Office of Building Inspection and Enforcement or the Director of Livable City Initiative or their designee.
(h) Extermination shall mean the control and elimination of insects, 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 enforcing officer.
(i) Garbage shall mean the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
(j) Good repair shall mean to keep structurally and mechanically sound, free from defects, and easily maintainable; the acceptability of which repairs shall be determined by the enforcing officer.
(k) Habitable room shall mean a room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, or eating purposes, excluding bathroom, water closet compartments, laundries, pantries, foyers, or communicating corridors, closets, recreation rooms (but not including "living room"), private workshops or hobby rooms and storage spaces.
(l) Infestation shall mean the presence, within or around a dwelling, or any insects, rodents or other pests.
(m) Lead paint shall mean any pigmented, liquid substance applied to surfaces by brush, roller, or spray in which the total nonvolatile ingredients contain more than six-tenths of one (0.6) percent of lead, by weight, calculated as metallic lead.
(n) Multiple dwelling shall mean any dwelling containing more than two (2) dwelling units.
(o) Nuisance which is a serious threat to life, health or safety shall mean:
(1) Any condition which would constitute a public nuisance at common law; or
(2) Cooking and/or kitchen facilities, bathroom facilities, rubbish and/ or garbage disposal facilities or means of egress, not maintained as required by subparagraphs (a), (b), (d) and/or (f), paragraph 301 of this title; or
(3) The absence of adequate ventilation for habitable rooms, light and ventilation for bathrooms, heating facilities or stairway and hall lighting, as required by subparagraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and/or (f), paragraph 301 of this title; or
(4) Foundations, floors, walls, ceilings, roofs, windows, outside openings, stairs, porches, plumbing fixtures, bathroom floors, or facilities for the drainage and disposal of rainwater not maintained as required by subparagraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and/or (f), paragraph 301 of this title; or
(5) Shared or common areas not kept in a clean and sanitary condition as required by paragraph 304 of this title; or
(6) Infestation by insects, rodents or other pests when it would be the responsibility of the owner to exterminate such insects, rodents, or pests pursuant to paragraph 309 of this title.
(p) Nuisance which constitutes a serious fire hazard shall mean any of the dangerous conditions described in paragraphs (a) through (g) of section 13-302 of Chapter 13 (Fire Prevention Code) of the Code of Ordinances.
(q) Occupant shall mean the person, over one (1) year of age, living, sleeping, cooking, or eating in, or having actual possession of a dwelling unit or rooming unit.
(r) Operator shall mean any person who has charge, care, or control of a building, or part thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming units are let.
(s) Owner shall mean any person who, alone or jointly or severally, with others:
(1) Shall have legal title to any dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or
(2) Shall have charge, care, or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or as executor, executrix, administrator, administratrix, 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 title and to the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, or the same extent as if he were the owner.
(t) Persons shall mean and include any individual; firm, corporation, association, or partnership.
(u) Plumbing shall mean and include all of the following supplied facilities and equipment: gas pipes, gas-burning equipment, water pipes, garbage disposal units, waste pipes, water closets, sinks, installed dishwashers, lavatories, bathtubs, shower baths, installed clothes-washing machines, catch basins, drains, vents, and any other similar supplied fixtures, together with all connections to water, sewer, or gas lines.
(v) Rooming house means any dwelling, or that part of any dwelling, containing one (1) or more rooming units in which space is let by the owner or operator to four o or more persons or as otherwise provided by local, state or federal law. this term includes, but is not limited to, any lodging houses or rooming houses, hotels, motels, group living residential occupancies and dwellings located in the city that house groups including fraternities and sororities that are not located on land owned by educational institutions. this term excludes hospitals, homes for the aged, community residences and health care facilities that are otherwise regulated by state law.
(w) Rooming unit 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.
(x) Rubbish shall mean combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage; and the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coke, and other combustible material, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery and dust.
(y) Supplied shall mean paid for, furnished, or provided by or under the control of the owner- operator.
(z) Tenement house shall mean any house or building, or portion thereof which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or is arranged or designed to be occupied, or is occupied, as the home or residence of three (3) or more families, living independently of each other, and doing or able to do their cooking upon the premises, and having a common right in the halls, stairways or yards.
(aa) Temporary housing shall mean tent, trailer, or similar structure which is used as human shelter for not more than thirty (30) consecutive days or more than ninety (90) days in any calendar year; provided that such tent, trailer, or similar structure complies with the statutes, ordinances and regulations of the State of Connecticut and the City of New Haven. Nothing is herein intended to prohibit the use of a tent, trailer, or similar structure as a dwelling for more than thirty (30) consecutive days or more than ninety (90) days in any calendar year, if such tent, trailer, or similar structure complies with the provisions of this title and the statutes, ordinances, and regulations of the State of Connecticut or the City of New Haven.