Chapter 156 – Housing Code

9. “Certificate of structure compliance” means a permanent document showing that the structure for which it is issued was in compliance with the provisions of Sections 156.17 and 156.18 of this chapter at the time of issuance. 10. “Chief” means the administrative head of the Fire Department. 11. “Communal” means used or shared by or intended to be used or shared by the occupants of two or more rooming units or two or more dwelling units. 12. “Condominium” means a dwelling unit in compliance or conformance with the requirements of the Code of Iowa, as amended. 13. “Cooperative” means a dwelling unit in compliance or conformance with the requirements the Code of Iowa, as amended. 14. “Court” means an open, unoccupied space, other than a yard, on the same lot with a dwelling. A court not extending to the street or front or rear yard is an inner court. A court extending to the street or front yard or rear yard is an outer court. 15. “Designated agent” means the person designated by the owners of rental property who are not residents of Johnson County, as well as condominium associations, who has authority to act on the owners’ behalf to accept service of legal processes and notices and to authorize repairs as required. 16. “Dining room” means a habitable room used or intended to be used for the purpose of eating but not for cooking or the preparation of meals. 17. “Director” means the Director of the Department of Housing and Inspection Services. 18. “Duplex” means any habitable structure containing two single dwelling units. The classification shall be determined by the existence of two separate dwelling units, as defined herein, and shall not be based upon the identity of the occupants. 19. “Dwelling” means 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. 20. “Dwelling, multiple” – See “multiple dwelling.” 21. “Dwelling, single-family” – See “single-family dwelling.” 22. “Dwelling unit” means 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. 23. “Egress” means an arrangement of exit routes to provide a means of exit from buildings and/or premises. 24. “Exit” means a continuous and unobstructed means of egress to a public way and shall include intervening doors, doorways, corridors, exterior-exit balconies, ramps, stairways, smoke- proof enclosures, horizontal exit, exit passageway, exit court, walkways, sidewalks, and yards. 25. “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 any other recognized and legal pest elimination methods approved by the inspector. 26. “Family” means one person or two or more persons related by blood, marriage, adoption, or placement by a governmental or social service agency, occupying a dwelling unit as one