Excelsior, Minn., Code of Ordinances ch. 10, art. XI § 10-392

The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Boardinghouse means a roominghouse where meals are served to the residents.
Family means two or more persons living together and maintaining a common household.
Habitable room means a room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, or eating purposes, excluding bathrooms, toilet rooms, laundries, pantries, foyers, communicating corridors, closets, storage spaces, and stairways.
Multiple dwelling means a building of any size or type of three or more living units, and includes boardinghouses.
Operate means to charge a rental charge for the use of a unit in a multiple dwelling.
Owner means any person who is the fee owner, contract purchaser, lessee of the entire multiple dwelling, or any equitable owner under pending mortgage foreclosure.
Roominghouse means a building described as a single-family dwelling all or a portion of which contains rooms rented to persons not members of the keeper's family, as sleeping and living quarters but without cooking facilities, and with or without individual bathrooms.
Unit means any habitable room or group of adjoining rooms located within a multiple dwelling and forming a single facility which is used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating.
Cross reference-- Definitions generally, § 1-2.