Ordinances-1999-227

DWELLING: Any building, structure or manufactured housing, except temporary housing, wholly or partly, used or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants and includes any appurtenances attached thereto. DWELLING, MULTIPLE: (See "Multiple Dwelling") DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY: (See "Single-Family Dwelling") DWELLING UNIT: Any habitable room or group of adjoining habitable rooms located within a dwelling and forming a single unit with facilities which are used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating of meals. EGRESS: An arrangement of exit routes to provide a means of exit from buildings and/or premises. EXIT: A continuous and unobstructed means of egress to a public way and shall include intervening doors, doorways, corridors, exterior-exit balconies, ramps, stairways, smokeproof enclosures, horizontal exit, exit passageway, exit court, walkways, sidewalks and yards. EXTERMINATION: 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 any other recognized and legal pest elimination methods approved by the inspector. FAMILY: One person or two (2) or more persons related by blood, marriage, adoption or placement by a governmental or social service agency, occupying a dwelling unit as one housekeeping organization. A family may also be two (2), but not more than two (2), persons not related by blood, marriage or adoption. FRATERNITY/SORORITY HOUSE: A building used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternal or sororal nonprofit organization recognized by the University of Iowa. For purposes of this Code, a fraternity/sorority house shall be considered a rooming house. Occupancy classification for State of Iowa Fire Code is "dormitory". HABITABLE ROOM: A room or enclosed floor space, having a minimum of seventy (70) square feet of total floor area within a dwelling unit or rooming unit used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, excluding bathrooms, toilet rooms, pantries, laundries, foyers, communicating corridors, closets, storage spaces, stairways and recreation rooms in basements (see "Recreation Room in Basement"). INFESTATION: The presence, within or around a dwelling, of any insects; rodents or other pests in such quantities as would be considered unsanitary. INSPECTOR: The official or officials of the City appointed to administer the provisions of the Housing Code, together with duly authorized representative(s) and/or agent(s). KITCHEN: A habitable room used or intended to be used for cooking or the preparation of meals. KITCHEN SINK: A basin for washing utensils used for cooking, eating and drinking, located in a kitchen and connected to both hot and cold water lines.