CVR 13-140-031 § 4

4.1 “Common Space” means all interior passageways, hallways, foyers, stairways,
basements, and other rooms in a dwelling or rooming house used or intended
for use by the occupants of more than one dwelling unit or rooming unit.
4.2 “Dwelling” means a rented building or structure, excluding tents or similar
structures used for the express purpose of camping, that is wholly or partly used
or intended to be used as a primary residence for living or sleeping by human
inhabitants. This includes rented mobile homes and “housing provided as a
benefit of farm employment” as defined in 9 V.S.A. § 4469a (a)(3).
4.3 “Dwelling Unit” means a room or group of rooms within a dwelling, or any
dwelling forming a single habitable unit used or intended for use for living,
sleeping, cooking, and eating.
4.4 “Food Residual or Food Scrap” means source separated and uncontaminated
material that is derived from processing or discarding of food and that is
recyclable, in a manner consistent with 10 V.S.A. § 6605k. Food residual may
include pre-consumer and post-consumer food scraps. "Food residual" does not
mean meat and meat-related products when the food residuals are composted
by a resident on site.
4.5 “Habitable Room” means every room or enclosed floor space, used or intended
to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, or eating purposes excluding bathrooms,
toilet compartments, closets, halls, storage or utility spaces and similar areas.
4.6 “Immediate Family” means a person’s parents, spouse, domestic partner,
children, and siblings.
4.7 “Infestation” means the presence of any pest or bedbug that creates a health
hazard or other risk to the preservation of public health.
4.8 “Local board of health” means the select board or city council, together with the
health officer as provided by 18 V.S.A. §§ 601 and 604.
4.9 “Local Health Officer” means the properly designated and appointed health
officer or health officer as authorized and appointed in accordance with 18 V.S.A.
§ 601.
4.10 “Mobile Home” means a structure or type of manufactured home as defined in
10 V.S.A. § 6201 (1) that is designed for long-term and continuous residential
occupancy.
4.11 “Mobile Home Lot” means any parcel of land not located in a mobile home park
(as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6201{(2)}) that is leased to a mobile homeowner and
established by the owner of the parcel of land as being the area in which the
leaseholder establishes a property right by way of a lease. This code is not meant
to apply to the rental of a lot in a mobile home park under the jurisdiction of 10
V.S.A. Ch. 153.
4.12 “Occupant” means a tenant and every person or guest entitled to be living and
sleeping in a dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming house, or rooming unit or on the
premises of a rented mobile home lot.
4.13 “Owner” means any person who alone, jointly, or severally with others:
4.13.1 Has legal or equitable title to any premises, dwelling, dwelling unit,
rooming house, rooming unit, or mobile home lot; or
4.13.2 Has charge, care, management or control of any premises, dwelling unit,
rooming house, rooming unit, or mobile home lot; or
4.13.3 Is the landlord or lessor of any premises, dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming
house, rooming unit, or mobile home lot; or
4.13.4 Is the authorized agent of the property owner of any premises, dwelling,
dwelling unit, rooming house, rooming unit, or mobile home lot.

4.14 “Person” means every individual, corporation, partnership, government,
governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, association,
firm, group or any other legal or commercial entity.
4.15 “Pest” means any unwanted animal, including any insect, that is a potential
vector for human disease and presents a public health threat.
4.16 “Premises” means the buildings, grounds and facilities associated with a
dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming house or rooming unit and the grounds, areas
and facilities associated with a rented mobile home lot that are held out for the
use of occupants generally or whose use is promised to the occupant.
4.17 “Recyclables” means the following source separated materials: aluminum and
steel cans; aluminum foil and aluminum pie plates; glass bottles and jars from
foods and beverages; polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles or jugs;
high density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic bottles and jugs; corrugated cardboard;
white and colored paper; newspaper; magazines; catalogues; paper mail and
envelopes; boxboard; and paper bags.
4.18 “Rental Housing” means all dwellings, dwelling units, rooming houses, rooming
units, or mobile home lots let by the owner to one or more persons to be used as
a regular residence.
4.19 “Rooming House” means any dwelling or part thereof containing one or more
rooming units and/or one or more dormitory rooms in which space is let by the
owner or operator to one or more persons who are not immediate family
members of the owner.
4.20 “Rooming Unit” means the room or group of rooms let to an individual or
household for use as living and sleeping, but not for cooking or eating purposes,
whether or not, common cooking facilities are made available.
4.21 “Rodent-proof” means construction, installation, and maintenance which under
foreseeable conditions will prevent the movement of rodents to or from a
dwelling or rooming house, or gaining access to food, water, or any place where
rodents can live, nest or seek shelter. It consists of the closing and keeping
closed of every opening in foundations, basements, cellars, exterior and interior
walls, ground or first floors, roofs, sidewalk gratings, sidewalk openings, and
other places that may be reached and entered by rodents by climbing, burrowing
or other methods.
4.22 “Trash” means combustible and noncombustible waste materials that are not
composted or recycled. This includes any products not included in the definitions
of “Food Residual or Food Scrap” or “Recyclables.”
4.23 “Ventilation” means the adequate supply and removal of air to and from a space
through windows, skylights, doors, grilles, ducts, or mechanical devices.

4.24 “Violation” means any condition in or on the premises of a rented dwelling,
rooming unit, rooming house or rented mobile home lot which fails to meet any
requirement of this code.
4.25 “Watertight” means so constructed that the structure is substantially
impermeable to water.
4.26 “Weathertight” means so constructed that the structure resists weather and
excludes rain and snow and prevents the infiltration of air.