The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:

    "Basement" means a portion of the building located partly underground, but having less than two-thirds of its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of adjoining ground.

    "Cellar" means a portion of a building located partly or wholly underground and having two-thirds of its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of adjoining ground.

    "Chief code enforcement officer" means the chief code enforcement officer of the city and his authorized representatives.

    "Dwelling" means any building which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants; provided, that temporary housing as defined in this section shall not be regarded as a dwelling.

    "Dwelling unit" means any of the following:

    1.    Any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling forming a single habitable unit when those units possess facilities which are used, or intended to be used, for living, sleeping, cooking and eating;

    2.    Any mobile home.

    "Enforcement authority" means the chief code enforcement officer of the city.

    "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 other recognized and legal pest elimination methods approved by the building inspector.

    "Garbage" means the animal and vegetable waste resulting from handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.

    "Habitable room" means a room of enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes excluding bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, pantries, foyers or communicating corridor closets and storage spaces.

    "Infestation" means the presence within or around a dwelling of any insect, rodent or other pest.

    "Mobile home" means any vehicle which is constructed to permit its being used as a conveyance, either self-propelled or non-self-propelled, upon the public streets and highways and which is designed and constructed to permit its occupancy as a dwelling or sleeping place for one or more persons and which has no foundation other than wheels, jacks, skirting or other temporary support.

    "Multiple dwelling" means any dwelling containing more than two dwelling units.

    "Occupant" means any person over one year of age living, sleeping, cooking or eating in or having actual possession of a dwelling unit or rooming unit.

    "Operator" means any person who has charge, care or control of a building, or part thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming units are let.

    "Owner" means any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others shall have:

    1.    Legal title to any dwelling or dwelling unit with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; provided, that whenever the dwelling or dwelling unit is subject to conditional sale contract, lease with option to purchase or any other form of written contract under the terms of which any person is entitled to a conveyance of legal title upon payment of a specified sum, the term "owner" means the person who shall have such contractual right rather than the person holding legal title; or

    2.    Charge, care or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit as executor, executrix, trustee, receiver or guardian of the owner as defined in subsection (1) above. Any such person thus representing the actual owner shall be bound to comply with the sections of this chapter to the same extent as if he were the owner. Any person acting as agent of the owner shall not be construed to be an owner within the terms of this chapter, but shall be bound to notify the owner by means of registered letter addressed to the owner at his last known address of any order or notice issued by the building inspector relating to the property of the owner.

    "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation, associate, or partnership.

    "Plumbing" means the following supplied facilities and equipment: gas pipe, gas burning equipment, water pipes, garbage disposal units, waste pipes, water closets, sinks, installed dishwashers, lavatories, bathtubs, installed clothes-washing machines, catch basins, vents and any other similar supplied fixtures together with all connections to water, sewer or gas lines.

    "Rooming house" means any dwelling or that part of any dwelling containing one or more rooming units in which space is let by the owner or operator to five or more persons who are not husband and wife, son or daughter, mother or father or sister or brother of the owner or operator.

    "Rooming unit" means any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking or eating purposes.

    "Rubbish" means combustible and noncombustible waste materials except garbage, and the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke and other combustible material, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, leaves, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery and dust.

    "Substantial property interest" means any right in real property that may be affected in a substantial way by actions authorized by Indiana Code, 36-7-9-1, et seq., including a fee interest, a life estate, a future interest, a present possessory interest or an equitable interest of a contract purchaser.

    "Supplied" means paid for, furnished or provided by or under the owner or operator.

    "Temporary housing" means any tent, mobile home or other structure used for human shelter which is designed to be transportable and which is not attached to the ground, to another structure or to any utilities system on such premises for more than thirty days.

    "Unsafe building" means a building or structure or any part of a building or structure, that is:

    1.    In an impaired structural condition that makes it unsafe to a person or property;

    2.    A fire hazard;

    3.    A hazard to the public health;

    4.    A public nuisance;

    5.    Dangerous to a person or property because of a violation of a statute or ordinance concerning building conditions or maintenance. (Indiana Code, 36-7-9-4(a)) "Unsafe premise" means an unsafe building and the tract of real property on which the unsafe building is located. (Prior code § 11-1)