§ 10-481 — Definitions

Sec. 10-481. - Definitions.

The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) Business building means any structure, whether public or private, regardless of the type of material used in its construction, located within the boundaries of the city that is adapted to occupancy for the transaction of business, whether vacant or occupied, for the rendering of professional services, for the display, sale, or storage of goods, wares, or merchandise, or for the performance of work or labor, including hotels, boarding homes, as defined in section 28-451 of this Code, lodging facilities, as defined in section 28-601 of this Code, rooming houses, beer parlors, office buildings, public buildings, stores, markets, restaurants, grain elevators and abattoirs, warehouses, workshops and factories. (2) Opening means and refers to any opening in the foundation, side, or walls of any business building, including roof, chimney caves, grills, windows, sidewalk grates, and sidewalk elevators, through which a rat may enter. (3) Person includes the owner, occupant, agent, individual, partnership, or corporation, or any other person in custody of any business building as defined herein. (4) Premises includes all business buildings, outhouses, sheds, barns, garages, docks, wharves, piers, grain elevators and abattoirs, whether public or private, and any and all other structures used in connection with the operation of any business building as herein defined. (5) Rat harborage means any condition found to exist under which rats may find shelter or protection, and shall include any defective construction which would permit the entrance of rats into any business building. (6) Rat stoppage means a form of ratproofing to prevent the ingress of rats into or to buildings or other structures from the exterior, or from one building or structure to another. It consists essentially of the closing or protecting of all openings in exterior walls, foundation, roof, sidewalk grates, outer entrances, floors, drains, doors, and all other openings that may be reached by rats from the ground by climbing or by burrowing, with concrete, galvanized flat sheet-iron of 24-gauge or heavier, hardware cloth of not more than one-half-inch mesh in its greatest dimension of 19-gauge wire or heavier, or other type of ratproofing material impervious to rat gnawing, approved by the director of public health. (7) Ratproof building means one constructed in such manner and of such materials as to prevent the ingress of rats.

(Ord. No. 91-1102, § 12, 7-31-91; Ord. No. 93-1570, § 2(d), 12-8-93)