Auburn — Ch. 13 Art. VI Minimum Housing Standards § 13-101

The following words or phrases for the purpose of this article shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
Basement or cellar means the portion of any building located partly or wholly below grade.
Dwelling means any building which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants.
Dwelling unit. means 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.
Extermination means the control and elimination of insects, rodents or other pests by eliminating their harboring place; by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, trapping; or by any other recognized and legal elimination methods approved by the housing commissioner.
Habitable room means 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, foyers or communicating corridors, closets and storage spaces.
Housing commissioner means the duly elected member of the city council of the city who is designated as such by the mayor or such other person designated by the mayor.
Infestation means the presence, within or around a dwelling, of any insects, rodents or other pests.
Multiple dwelling means any dwelling containing more than two (2) dwelling units.
Occupant means any person, over one (1) year of age, living, sleeping, cooking or eating in or having actual possession of a dwelling unit or rooming unit.
Operator means any person who has charge, care or control of a building, or part thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming units are let.
Owner means and includes any person who alone or jointly or severally with others: (1)
Has legal or equitable title to any dwelling or dwelling unit;
(2) Is the owner's agent for the purpose of managing, maintaining or controlling a dwelling or dwelling unit or collecting the rents therefrom;
(3) Manages, maintains or controls a dwelling or dwelling unit or any part thereof.
Person means and includes any individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership.
Plumbing means and includes 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.
Rooming unit means 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.
Rooming house, lodging house, boarding house, hotel or motel means any dwelling, or part of any dwelling containing one (1) or more rooming units, in which space is let by the owner or operator for rooming or rooming and boarding to three (3) or more persons, who are not of the relationship of the owner or operator as follows: husband or wife, son or daughter, mother or father, sister or brother, grandparents, grandchildren, niece or nephew, domestic employees not exceeding two (2) in number.
Supplied means paid for, furnished, or provided by or under the control of the owner or operator.
Meaning of certain words. 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."