Woodridge CHAPTER 9 RESIDENTIAL RENTAL ORDINANCE § 3-9A-1

For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:


ABANDONED VEHICLE: All motor vehicles or other vehicles in a state of disrepair which renders the vehicle incapable of being driven in its condition; or any motor vehicle or other vehicle that has not been moved or used for seven (7) consecutive days or more and is apparently deserted.


COMMON AREAS (EXTERIOR): The private roads and streets and private sidewalks adjacent thereto, landscaping, detention ponds, utility facilities, trash enclosures, playground equipment, swimming pools, tennis courts, basketball courts or any other recreational facilities, trail areas, parking areas, private drives, detached garages, lighting fixtures, signage, mailboxes, street benches, entrance monuments, perimeter fencing and such other improvements or structures from time to time or at any time located or constructed on a common area. Such common areas may serve, in whole or in part, one or more multiple-family dwellings.


COMMON AREAS (INTERIOR): Any portion or part thereof of a multiple-family dwelling having communal areas (laundry, furnace, storage rooms, hallways, stairways, meeting rooms) and all other areas located within a dwelling, outside of a dwelling unit. Interior common areas shall also include stoops, entrance doors, roofs, attics, balconies, lighting fixtures, signage, railings, patios, storage areas, garages, exterior building surfaces, gutters and downspouts and any other areas of a multiple-family dwelling or building to which the owner is directly responsible for the proper maintenance thereof.


DWELLING UNIT: Any rooms 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.


FOOT-CANDLE: The quantity of light reaching a surface. It is equal of the number of lumens divided by the square footage of the surface the lumens are covering, i.e., one lumen covering one square foot equals one foot-candle.


LUMEN: The quantity of light emitted by a light source.


MANAGING AGENT: Any person or firm, acting for another, with authority to rent, manage and/or make expenditures.


MULTIPLE-FAMILY BUILDING: A dwelling that is designed and built as a group of individual dwelling units, in which units may or may not touch by virtue of common or party walls and floors and ceilings, and which contains three (3) or more dwelling units per building. Each building that is separated from another building by virtue of a firewall or fire separation assembly, and has its own address, shall be considered a separate building. When a condominium association, homeowners' association or other legal entity has the charge, care or control of any common area which serves, in whole or in part, one or more multiple-family dwelling units not owned by such condominium association, homeowners' association or other legal entity, then in that event such common area shall be deemed to be a multiple-family dwelling for purposes of this chapter.


MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING: A dwelling unit in a multiple-family building.


OPERATOR: Any person who has charge, care, control or management of a multiple-family dwelling or building, or part thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming units are let.


OWNER: Any person who alone, jointly or severally with others has legal title to any multiple-family dwelling, or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or who has charge, care or control of any multiple-family dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner, or other person; or is an executor, administrator, trustee or guardian of the estate of the owner; is a mortgagee in possession, or is a senior officer or a trustee of the association of unit owners of a condominium or homeowners' association. Any person thus representing the actual owner shall be bound to comply with the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations pursuant thereto, to the same extent as if he were the owner. Owner shall also mean any condominium association, homeowners' association or other legal entity having the charge, care or control of any common area which serves in whole or in part one or more multiple-family dwellings.


PERSON: Any individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation, trust or any other legal entity.


SINGLE-FAMILY RENTAL DWELLING: A single-family home or townhouse that is not owner occupied and is subject to a rental lease.


TENANT: Any occupant of a multiple-family dwelling and/or a single-family rental dwelling as designated by the rental lease. (Ord. 2012-42, 7-26-2012)