Glencoe, Minn., City Code ch. 5 §§ 545.01–545.09 (2026) § 545.02

545.02 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
given them:

       a.      Building Code Standards. Standards required by the Minnesota State Building Code
               including all appendices sub-codes, attachments and related codes as have been
               adopted and promulgated by the state of Minnesota and in force and effect in the City
               of Glencoe.

       b.      Dwelling. A building wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living,
               sleeping, cooking or eating purposes by human occupants; but not including hotels
               and motels.

       c.      Dwelling Unit. A 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 purposes.

       d.      Egress. Shall mean an arrangement of exist facilities to assure a safe means of exist
               from buildings.

       e.      Extermination. The control and elimination of insects, rodents, or other pests by
               elimination of 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 method approved by the Occupancy
               Inspector; and to remove all signs of extermination thereafter.

       f.      Floor area. The net floor area within the enclosing walls of a room in which the
               ceiling height is not less than seven (7) feet, excluding areas occupied by closets and
               built-in equipment, such as cabinets, kitchen units, fixtures and appliances.

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g.   Habitable Room. 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, pantries, foyers or communicating corridors, closets and
     storage spaces.

h.   Infestation. The presence of insects, rodents or other pests within or around a
     dwelling on the premises.

i.   Let. The giving of the use of a dwelling, dwelling unit or rooming unit by an owner
     to a tenant in return for rent.

j.   Multiple dwelling. Any dwelling of more than two (2) dwelling units.

k.   Occupant. Any person living, sleeping, cooking or eating in, or having actual
     possession of, a dwelling unit or rooming unit.

l.   Operator. A person residing or a business principally operating within 25 miles of
     the City who is authorized by the Owner to make decisions for the Owner about rent,
     occupancy, and maintenance of a building or part thereof, in which dwellings,
     dwelling units, or rooming units are let.

m.   Owner. A person, firm or corporation who, alone, jointly or severally with others
     own or has an ownership interest in a dwelling, dwelling unit or rooming unit within
     the City.

n.   Plumbing. Includes the following supplied facilities and equipment; water pipes,
     waste pipes, water closets, sinks, lavatories, bath tubs, showers, vents, sump pumps
     and any other similar supplied fixtures, together with all connections to water and
     sewer lines.

o.   Premises. The dwelling and its land and all buildings thereon and areas thereof.

p.   Refuse. All putrescible and non-putrescible waste solids including, but not limited
     to, garbage and rubbish.

q.   Rent. A stated return or payment for the temporary possession of a dwelling,
     dwelling unit or rooming unit. The return or payment may be money or service or
     property.

r.   Rooming Unit. A 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, along with
     private or shared sanitation facilities.

s.   Safety. Shall mean the condition of being reasonably free from danger and hazards

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               which may cause injury or illness.

       t.      Variance. A difference between that which is required or specified and that which is
               permitted.

       u.      Water Closet. Shall mean a toilet, with a bowl and trap made in one piece, which is
               connected to the city water and sewer system or other approved water supply and
               sewer system.

       v.      Meanings of Certain Words. Whenever the words dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming
               unit, or premises are used in this chapter, they shall be construed as though they
               were followed by the words "or any part thereof".