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Chapter 919: Definitions
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<br />Mean Ground Level: The elevation established for the purpose of regulating the number of
<br />stories and the height of buildings. Grade shall be the mean level of the finished surface of the
<br />ground adjacent to the exterior walls of the buildings.
<br />Metes and Bounds: A method of property description by means of their direction and distance
<br />from an easily identifiable point.
<br />Mobile Home. See Manufactured Home.
<br />Modular Home: A non-mobile housing unit that is basically fabricated at a central factory and
<br />transported to a building site where final installations are made, permanently affixing the module
<br />to the site.
<br />Motor Home: "Motor home" means a motor vehicle designed to provide temporary living
<br />quarters. A motor home has a living unit built into, integral to, or permanently or temporarily
<br />attached to the chassis of a motor vehicle. This includes a sleeping unit added to the bed of a
<br />pick-up truck. “Motor home” is also defined in Statute 168.002, Subdivision 17.
<br />National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES): The program for issuing,
<br />modifying, revoking, reissuing, terminating, monitoring, and enforcing permits under the Clean
<br />Water Act (Sections 301, 318, 402, and 405) and United States Code of Federal Regulations Title
<br />33, Sections 1317, 1328, 1342, and 1345.
<br />New Construction: For the purposes of determining insurance rates, structures for which the
<br />start of construction commenced on or after the effective date of an initial Flood Insurance Rate
<br />map or after December 31, 1974, whichever is later, and includes any subsequent improvements
<br />to such structures. For floodplain management purposes, “new construction” means structures for
<br />which the start of construction commenced on or after the effective date of a floodplain
<br />management regulation adopted by a community and includes any subsequent improvements to
<br />such structures.
<br />Non-Conforming Building or Structure: A structure or building, the size, dimensions, or
<br />location of which was lawful prior to [effective date of this ordinance] or on the effective date of
<br />any amendment to this ordinance, but that fails by reason of such adoption or amendment to
<br />conform to the requirements of this ordinance.
<br />Non-Conforming Use: Any use lawfully being made of any land, building, or structure not
<br />otherwise abandoned, existing on [effective date of this ordinance] or on the effective date of any
<br />amendment of this Ordinance, that does not comply with the use regulations of this Ordinance or
<br />the amendment.
<br />Nursing Home: A facility that provides nursing services and custodial care on a 24-hour basis for
<br />two or more unrelated individuals outside of their homes, who for reasons of illness, physical
<br />infirmity or advanced age, require such services, but not including hospitals, clinics or similar
<br />institutions.
<br />Obstruction: (in relation to flood plains): Any dam, wall, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile,
<br />abutment, projection, excavation, channel modification, culvert, building, wire, fence, stockpile,
<br />refuse, fill, structure, or matter in, along, across, or projecting into any channel, watercourse, or
<br />regulatory flood plain which may impede, retard, or change the direction of the flow of water,
<br />either in itself or by catching or collecting debris carried by such water.
<br />Office: A building that provides work space for professional, financial, administrative, clerical,
<br />and similar services. Also known as an “office building.”
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