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DEFINITIONS
<br />OPERATOR. Any person who has charge, care or control of a
<br />structure or premises which is let or offered for occupancy.
<br />OWNER. Any person, agent, operator, firm or corporation
<br />having a legal or equitable interest in the property; or recorded
<br />in the official records of the state, county or municipality as
<br />holding title to the property; or otherwise having control of the
<br />property, including the guardian of the estate of any such per-
<br />son, and the executor or administrator of the estate of such per-
<br />son if ordered to take possession of real property by a court.
<br />PERSON. An individual, corporation, partnership or any
<br />Other group acting as a unit.
<br />PREMISES. A lot, plot or parcel of land, easement or public
<br />way, including any structures thereon.
<br />PUBLIC WAY. Any street, alley or similar parcel of land
<br />essentially unobstructed from the ground to the sky, which is
<br />deeded, dedicated or otherwise permanently appropriated to
<br />the public for public use.
<br />ROOMING HOUSE. A building arranged or occupied for
<br />lodging, with or without meals, for compensation and not
<br />occupied as a one- or two- family dwelling.
<br />ROOMING UNIT. Any room or group of rooms forming a
<br />single habitable unit occupied or intended to be occupied for
<br />sleeping or living, but not for cooking purposes.
<br />RUBBISH. Combustible and noncombustible waste materi-
<br />als, except garbage; the term shall include the residue from the
<br />burning of wood, coal, coke and other combustible materials,
<br />paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather,
<br />tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter,
<br />glass, crockery and dust and other similar materials.
<br />[Bj SLEEPING UNIT. A room or space in which people
<br />sleep, which can also include permanent provisions for livin
<br />eating and either sanitation or kitchen facilities, but not bothg, .
<br />Such rooms and spaces that are also part of a dwelling unit are
<br />not sleeping units.
<br />STRICT LIABILITY OFFENSE. An offense in which the
<br />prosecution in a legal proceeding is not required to prove crimi-
<br />nal intent as a part of its case. It is enough to prove that the
<br />defendant either did an act which was prohibited, orfailed to do
<br />an act which the defendant was legally required to do.
<br />STRUCTURE. That which is built or constructed or a portion
<br />thereof.
<br />TENANT. A person, corporation, partnership or group,
<br />whether or not the legal owner of record, occupying a building
<br />or portion thereof as a unit.
<br />TOILET ROOM. A room containing a water closet or urinal
<br />but not a bathtub or shower.
<br />VENTILATION. The natural or mechanical process of sup-
<br />plying conditioned or unconditioned air to, or removing such
<br />air from, any space.
<br />WORKMANLIKE. Executed in a skilled manner; e.g., gen-
<br />erally plumb, level, square, in line, undamaged and without
<br />marring adjacent work.
<br />YARD. An open space on the same lot with a structure
<br />2006 INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE®
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