Park Ridge — Art. 22 Property Maintenance Code § 22-2-1

The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this Article:
Accessory building: A building, structure or part of a building which is secondary or subordinate in capacity or use from the main or principal building or structure on the same premises.
Approved: Approved by the Housing Inspector or state authority having such administrative authority.
Building: Any structure designed, built for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind and which is permanently affixed to the land.
Dormitory: A building or a group of rooms in a building used for institutional living and sleeping purposes by persons not members of the same family group.
Dwelling: A building or portion thereof used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, eating and sanitation purposes, including single-family, two-family and multiple-family dwellings, but not including mobile homes or other trailers or lodging rooms in hotels, motels or lodging houses.
Dwelling, multiple family: A dwelling containing three or more dwelling units.
Dwelling, single-family: A dwelling which forms no more than one single habitable unit with facilities which are used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, eating and sanitation.
Dwelling, two-family: A dwelling containing two dwelling units only.
Dwelling unity: A portion of a dwelling in which a room or group of rooms forms a single habitable unit with facilities which are used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, eating, and sanitation.
Egress: An arrangement of exit facilities to assure a safe means of exit from buildings.
Extermination: The control and elimination of insects, rodents, 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 Housing Inspector or state authority having such administrative authority.
Guest: An individual who shares a dwelling or a dwelling unit in a non-permanent status for not more than 30 days, without payment of rent.
Habitable room: Any room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, excluding bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, pantries, foyers, corridors, closets, storage spaces, stairways, utility rooms or similar spaces.
Heated water: Water heated to a temperature of not less than 120° F at the outlet.
Heating device: All furnaces, unit heaters, domestic incinerators, cooking and heating stoves, and ranges, and other similar devices.
Household: A parent or parents and children of such parent or parents or a group of not more than five persons who are not related as parents and children but who maintain a common household in a dwelling or dwelling unit. This definition does not include convents, sororities, fraternities or similar uses and does not include occasional guests or domestic employees.
Housing inspector: The administrative official of the City designated as such by the Director of Community Preservation and Development.
Infestation: The presence, within or around a building of any insects, rodents or other pests.
Litter: Any discarded, used or consumed substance or waste. Litter includes, but is not limited to any garbage, trash, refuse, debris, rubbish, grass clippings or other lawn or garden waste, newspaper, magazine, glass, metal, plastic or paper containers, wood, motor vehicle parts, furniture, oil, carcass of dead animal, animal or human excreta, any nauseous or offensive material or liquid of any kind, any object which creates a public health or safety hazard, public nuisance or a fire hazard or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature which has been discarded, abandoned or otherwise disposed of improperly.
Meaning of certain words: Whenever the words "dwelling," "dwelling unit," "rooming units," "building," "premises," "structure" are used in the Article they shall be construed as though they were followed by the words "or any part thereof." Words used in the singular include the plural, and the plural the singular, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the feminine the masculine.
Occupant: Any individual, over one year of age, living, sleeping, working, cooking, or eating in or having possession of a building or portion thereof; except that in dwellings and dwelling units a guest shall not be considered an occupant.
Operator: Any person who has charge, care, control, or management of a building, or part thereof.
Owner: Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others: 1.
Shall have legal or beneficial title to any premise, building, structure, dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, or
2. Shall have charge, care, control of any premise, building, structure, dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or an executor, administrator, 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 Article and of Rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, to the same extent as if the person was the owner.
Permissible occupancy: The maximum number of individuals permitted to reside in a dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming unit, or dormitory.
Person: Shall mean and include any individual, firm, corporation association, partnership, cooperative or governmental agency.
Plumbing: Shall mean and include all 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 other similar supplied fixtures, and the installation thereof, together with all connections to water, sewer, or gas lines.
Premises: A platted lot or part thereof or unplatted lot or parcel of land or plot of land, either occupied or unoccupied by any building or structure.
Privacy: The existence of conditions which will permit an individual or individuals to carry out an activity commenced without interruption or interference, either by sight or sound by unwanted individuals.
Property connected: Connected in accordance with all applicable codes and ordinances of this City of Park Ridge as from time to time enforced; provided, however, that the application of this definition shall not require the alteration or replacement of any connection in good working order and not constituting a hazard of life or health.
Rooming house: Any dwelling, other than a hotel or motel, or that part of any dwelling, containing one or more rooming units, and/or one or more dormitory rooms and in which persons either individually or as families are housed with or without meals being provided.
Rooming unit: 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 purposes.
Space heater: A self-contained, heating appliance of either the convection type or the radiant type and intended primarily to heat only a limited space.
Supplied: Paid for, furnished by, provided by, or under the control of the owner, operator, or agent.
Temporary housing: Any tent, trailer, mobile home, or any other structure used for human shelter which is designed to be transportable and which is not attached in the ground, to another structure, or to any utility system on the same premises for more than 30 consecutive days.
Toxic substance: Any chemical product applied on the surface of or incorporated into any structural or decorative material which constitutes a potential hazard to human health at acute or chronic exposure levels.
Vermin proofing: A form of construction which will prevent the ingress and egress of insects, rodents, birds and other pests to or from a given space or building, or from gaining access to food, water, or harborage. It consists of the closing and keeping closed of every opening in foundations, basements, cellars, exterior and interior walls, ground or first floors, roofs sidewalk gratings, sidewalk openings, and other places that may be reached and entered by insects, rodents, birds and other pests by climbing, burrowing or other methods, by the use of materials impervious to rat gnawing and other methods approved by the Housing Inspector.
Undefined words: Words not specifically defined in this Article shall have the common definitions set forth in a standard dictionary.