Waconia, Minn., Code of Ordinances ch. 541 § 541.02

Words in the singular include the plural and the plural the singular. Words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and the feminine the masculine. Any term not defined below shall have its ordinary accepted meaning within the context it is used. Each of the following terms shall have meaning ascribed to it below:
Bedroom means a room within a dwelling unit that is designed and furnished for sleeping facilities and meets the applicable requirements of the Minnesota State Building Code and the Minnesota Residential Code for "sleeping units" or the equivalent provisions of the Minnesota Building Code or Minnesota Residential Code if such codes, or their successor codes, are amended.
Building code means the Minnesota State Building Code.
Code official means the city's building official, as appointed by the city council, and any designee of such code official.
Rental dwelling means a building or structure wholly or partially leased or intended to be leased to one (1) or more tenants for residential living or sleeping purposes, but excluding rest homes, convalescent homes, nursing homes, hotels and motels.
Rental dwelling unit means a room or group of rooms within a rental dwelling that has bathroom, kitchen and sleeping facilities for one (1) household of related or unrelated tenants.
Electrical code means the Minnesota State Electrical Code.
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, 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 of Minnesota, Carver 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, leased and let mean, in each instance any of these words is used, the giving of the use of a building or structure, or portion thereof, by an owner or manager to a tenant in return for rent.
Manager is a person or entity who has charge, care or control of a rental dwelling.
Mechanical code is the Minnesota State Mechanical Code.
Nuisance means any of the following: A.
Any public nuisance known at common law or in equity jurisprudence;
B. Any unsafe condition that is attractive to minors including, but not limited to, unprotected well openings or excavations, abandoned refrigerators and structurally unsound fences;
C. Overcrowding of a rental dwelling unit with human occupants or personal property;
D. Insufficient ventilation or illumination of a rental dwelling unit;
E. Inadequate or unsanitary sewage or plumbing facilities serving a rental dwelling unit; or
F. 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 within the city.
Plumbing code is the State of Minnesota Plumbing Code.
Premises is, collectively, a rental dwelling and the parcel of land on which it is located.
Refuse is all putrescible and non-putrescible waste solids including garbage and rubbish.
Rent means the consideration provided by a tenant (or on behalf of a tenant) for the temporary possession of a rental dwelling unit, whether paid in money, property or services.
Safe means being reasonably free from dangers and hazards that may cause human injury or illness.
Short-term means fewer than thirty (30) days, excluding month-to-month and holdover tenancies.
Substandard dwelling unit means any rental dwelling unit that is not safe due to inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, physical damage, unsanitary condition, abandonment or any other reason.
Tenant means a human occupant of a rental dwelling unit, whether one (1) or more.
Unsafe means not safe.
Variance means the difference between that which is required or specified and that which is permitted.