Maple Plain, Minn., Code of Ordinances ch. 4, art. 13 § 4-509

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:
Apartment building means any building or portion thereof that contains three or more dwelling units, sleeping rooms, or a combination thereof, but not including condominiums or townhomes.
Building code means the Minnesota State Building Code.
Code official means the City Administrator or the Administrator's duly authorized representative.
Condominium means a single dwelling unit in a multi-dwelling unit building that is separately owned and may be combined with an undivided interest in the common areas and facilities of the premises. Each individual owner may sell or encumber their own dwelling unit.
Denial means the refusal to grant a license to a new or renewing applicant by the City.
Dwelling unit or rental dwelling unit means a single unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation. Each room or group of rooms with an entrance door to the exterior of the building or an entrance door to a common corridor or hallway is a separate dwelling unit.
Efficiency dwelling unit means a dwelling unit containing only one habitable room, plus bathroom facilities.
Extermination means 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, or trapping; or by any other recognized and legal pest elimination method approved by the Code Official.
Fire code means the Minnesota State Fire Code.
Health Officer means any elected or appointed health officer of the state, the county or the City.
Infestation means the presence of insects, rodents or other pests in numbers large enough to be harmful, threatening or obnoxious to human life.
Lease means an oral or written agreement between a rental dwelling unit owner and a tenant for temporary use of a rental dwelling unit, usually in exchange for payment of rent.
License means the formal approval of an activity specified on the certificate of license issued by the City.
License application means the form provided by the City, which must be completed by the owner, by which an owner requests a license.
Licensee means an owner of a rental dwelling unit who has been issued a license by the City for the rental dwelling unit.
Manager means a person or entity who has charge, care or control of a rental dwelling.
Nuisance means any of the following: (1)
Any act that constitutes a public nuisance under state statute or City Code;
(2) Any unsafe condition that is attractive to minors, including, but not limited to, unprotected well openings or excavations, abandoned refrigerators and structurally unsound fences;
(3) Overcrowding of a rental dwelling unit with human occupants or personal property;
(4) Insufficient ventilation or illumination of a rental dwelling unit;
(5) Inadequate or unsanitary sewage or plumbing facilities serving a rental dwelling unit; or
(6) Any unsafe condition, as determined by the Code Official or Health Officer.
Owner means a person or entity that owns or has any ownership interest in a rental dwelling.
Premises means the real estate upon which any rental dwelling unit subject to this article is located.
Refuse means all putrescible and non-putrescible waste solids, including garbage and rubbish.
Rent means the consideration paid by a tenant to the owner of a rental dwelling unit for temporary and exclusive use of the rental dwelling unit by the tenant. The consideration is not limited to cash.
Rental dwelling means any building containing one or more dwelling units.
Rental license means a license issued by the City pursuant to this article.
Revoke means to take back a license issued by the City.
Single-family dwelling means a building or portion thereof containing one dwelling unit. For purposes of this article, a single-family dwelling unit includes a freestanding single-family residence, a single dwelling in a cooperative, an individual condominium or townhouse, a single dwelling unit in a nonresidential structure or a dwelling unit offered for rent in a duplex in which the owner occupies the other dwelling unit.
Sleeping room means any room used or intended to be used by a tenant for sleeping purposes with or without meals and not licensed by the Minnesota Department of Health.
Suspend means to make a license temporarily inoperative.
Tenant means any adult person granted temporary use of a rental dwelling unit pursuant to a lease with the owner of the rental dwelling unit.
Townhouse means a single-family dwelling constructed in a group of dwellings attached to each other and where each dwelling unit extends from the foundation to the roof and is separated from other dwelling units by property lines.
Two-family dwelling means a building or portion thereof containing two dwelling units.