Definitions.
Seattle Mun. Code § 6.222.010
in effect6.222.010 - Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter:
A. "Customer" means any prospective tenant contracting with a rental agency for the performance of such agency's services.
B. "Department" means the Department of Finance and Administrative Services of the City.
C. "Director" means the Director of Finance and Administrative Services of the City or any authorized representative of the Director.
D. "Housing accommodation" or "accommodations" includes any dwelling or dwelling unit, rooming unit, rooming house, lot or parcel of land which is used, intended to be used, or arranged or designed to be used as, or improved with, a residential structure for one or more human beings.
E. "Landlord" means the owner of a housing accommodation or other persons authorized or empowered to rent such housing accommodation to others.
F. "Rental agency" means any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, company, society, association, or other group or organization whether organized for profit or nonprofit, who for compensation from the prospective tenant, collects, offers, and/or distributes information as to housing accommodations, without substantially participating as an intermediary in negotiation of rents, terms, conditions, or other provisions of individual leases or rental agreements or entering into rental agreements on behalf of or representing the prospective tenant.
(Ord. 123361, § 221, 2010; Ord. 120794, § 176, 2002; Ord. 120181, § 103, 2000; Ord. 118397, § 90, 1996; Ord. 117169, § 102, 1994; Ord. 109763, § 2, 1981; Ord. 108934, § 11.020, 1980.)
Source: City of Seattle, Seattle Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/wa/seattle/codes/municipal_code?nodeId=TIT6BURE_SUBTITLE_IVNELICO_CH6.222REHOAG_6.222.010DEFetched: 11/1/2026