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The following words and phrases, whenever used in this chapter, shall have the meanings specified in this section, unless from the content, a different meaning is clearly intended.

Apartment: A suite of rooms within a building arranged, designed or used for residential purposes for one family, and containing independent sanitary and cooking facilities. Each apartment shall be considered a dwelling unit.

Building sewer: That part of the horizontal piping of a drainage system which extends from the end of the building drain and which receives the discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a public sewer.

Commercial and industrial development: All buildings and lots in the City other than single-family residences, multifamily residences, apartments, and mobile home developments, as defined in this chapter.

Dwelling unit: "Dwelling unit" means a room or group of rooms within a building containing cooking facilities and occupied by one family. An apartment shall be considered a dwelling unit, but hotel and motel rooms are not considered as dwelling units under the provisions of this chapter.

Family: A family is either:

a. An individual or two or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit; or

b. A group of unrelated persons living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit.

Hotel: A building or group of buildings containing rooming units and/or guestrooms, such rooming units being for residential purposes or transient purposes.

Mobile home development: Any lot, tract or parcel of land used or offered for use in whole or in part, with or without charge, for the parking of occupied mobile homes.

Motel: A building or group of buildings containing rooming units and/or guestrooms each of which maintains a separate outside entrance, such building or group of buildings being designed, intended or used primarily for the accommodation of travelers.

Multifamily residence: A building designed and/or used for residential purposes and containing more than one apartment or dwelling unit.

Person: The term "person" shall include an individual, firm, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, estate, trust, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular number.

Recreational vehicle park: Any lot, tract or parcel of land used or offered for use in whole or in part with or without charge, for the parking of occupied recreational vehicles, tents or similar devices used for temporary living quarters for recreation, camping or travel purposes.

Sewage: A combination of water-carried wastes from business buildings and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, and storm waters as may be present. (Ord. No. G-2164, § 1; Ord. No. G-2537, § 1)

Cross reference—Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.