East Rochester, N.Y., Code of Ordinances ch. 157 (eCode360 ed. 2026) § 157-2

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated: ACCEPTED Approved by the Fire Marshal of the Town/Village of East Rochester or his designated representative. APARTMENT HOUSE A structure arranged, intended or designed to be occupied by three or more families living independently of each other with separate housekeeping facilities for each family. APPROVAL Accepted by the Fire Marshal of the Town/Village of East Rochester or his designated representative. ATTIC Space between the top of the uppermost floor construction and the underside of the roof. HABITABLE SPACE Space occupied by one or more persons for living, sleeping, eating or cooking. Restaurants for employees and occupants, kitchens serving them and kitchenettes shall not be deemed to be habitable space. HEAT DETECTOR A protection device that can sense an abnormally high air temperature or an abnormal rate of heat rise and, on sensing such a condition, can automatically initiate a signal indicating the condition. LODGING HOUSE OR ROOMING HOUSE Includes any building or portion thereof not an apartment house or hotel used by families or single individuals as a place of shelter or lodging, but not including a building where less than three persons are received or lodged. MAINTAIN To keep in operating condition at all times. MULTIFAMILY DWELLING A building occupied or intended to be occupied as a residence or home by three or more families or persons living independently of each other, except, however, an apartment house as herein defined. The term "multifamily dwelling" shall include, but is not limited to, flats, hotels, motels, lodging houses, rooming houses, boardinghouses, boarding schools, school dormitories, furnished room houses, clubhouses or fraternal houses, homes for the indigent and single-family dwellings with one or more transient or permanent boarders, roomers or lodgers. NONHABITABLE SPACE Space used as kitchenettes, pantries, bath-, toilet, laundry, rest, dressing, locker, storage, utility, heater and boiler rooms, closets and other spaces for service and maintenance of the building and those spaces used for access and vertical travel between stories. OWNER Applied to a building or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of the whole or of a part of such building or land. SLEEPING AREAS The area or areas of the family living unit in which the bedrooms or sleeping rooms are located. Bedrooms or sleeping rooms separated by other use areas, such as but not limited to kitchens or living rooms (except bathrooms), shall be considered as separate sleeping areas for the purposes of this chapter. STORAGE AREA Includes all areas of buildings, structures or areas thereof utilized primarily for the storage or sheltering of goods, merchandise, products, vehicles or animals.