Letter P.
Columbus City Codes § 4101.16
in effect4101.16 - Letter P.
"Partition" means a minor interior wall used to subdivide a floor area.
"Partition, bearing" means a partition which supports a load in addition to its own weight.
"Partition, nonbearing" means a partition which supports only its own weight.
"Passageway" means an enclosed hallway or corridor connecting a required exit to a street, or other open space communicating with a street when such required exit does not lead directly to a street.
"Permanent open space" means a street, alley, permanent surface and air easement, waterway, public park, or railroad right-of-way, other than a siding for the loading, unloading, or storage of cars or motive power equipment.
"Person" means a natural person, beneficiaries, executors, administrators or assigns, and also includes an organization, firm, partnership, corporation, contractor, or subcontractor, its or their successors or assigns, or the agent of any of the aforesaid.
"Platform" means a raised section of floor not enclosed by walls above the platform floor level. This definition shall not include a stage as defined in the Ohio Building Code.
"Plumbing" means the business, trade, or work having to do with the installation, removal, alteration, or repair of plumbing and drainage systems or parts thereof.
"Plumbing appliance" means any one of a special class of plumbing fixture which is intended to perform a special function. Its operation and/or control may be dependent upon one or more energized components, such as motors, controls, heating elements, or pressure or temperature-sensing elements. Such fixtures may operate automatically through one or more of the following actions: a time cycle, a temperature range, a pressure range, a measured volume or weight, or the fixture may be manually adjusted or controlled by the user or operator.
"Plumbing appurtenance" means a manufactured device, or a prefabricated assembly, or an on-the-job assembly of component parts, and which is an adjunct to the basic piping system and plumbing fixtures. An appurtenance demands no additional water supply, nor does it add any discharge load to a fixture or the drainage system. It is presumed that it performs some useful function in the operation, maintenance, servicing, economy, or safety of the plumbing system.
"Plumbing fixture" means a receptacle or device which is either permanently or temporarily connected to the water distribution system, and demands a supply of water therefrom, or it discharges used water, liquid-borne waste materials, or sewage either directly or indirectly to the drainage system, or which requires both a water supply connection and a discharge to the drainage system. Plumbing appliances as a special class of fixture are further defined.
"Plumbing system" means and includes all potable water supplies and distribution pipes, all plumbing fixtures and traps, all drainage and vent pipes and all building drains, including their respective joints and connections, devices and appurtenances within the property lines of the premises and shall include potable water treatment or using equipment.
"Point of service" means that portion of the domestic or fire water service pipe and appurtenances from the meter to the water distribution system of the building(s) served. It does not include the service line, as defined in City Code Chapter 1105.
"Porch" means a roofed structure with one or more open sides, erected against and projecting from, an exterior wall of a building.
"Premises" means lands and everything of a permanent nature attached thereto as a part of realty.
"Property line" means the line of demarcation between properties either public or private.
"Public nuisance" means any structure which is permitted to be or remain in any of the following conditions:
(1) In a dilapidated, decayed, unsafe or unsanitary condition detrimental to the public health, safety, and welfare, or well being of the surrounding area; or
(2) A fire hazard; or
(3) Any vacant building that is not secured and maintained in compliance with Chapter 4513; or
(4) Land, real estate, houses, buildings, residences, apartments, or premises of any kind which are used in violation of any division of Section 2925.13, Ohio Revised Code.
"Public nuisance" also means any structure or real property which is not in compliance with any building, housing, zoning, fire, safety, air pollution, health or sanitation ordinance of the Columbus City Code or Columbus City Health Code, or any real property upon which its real property taxes have remained unpaid in excess of one year from date of assessment.
(Ord. 1692-98 § 4; Ord. 0719-04 § 6; Ord. No. 2019-2021, § 1, 7-26-2021; Ord. No. 1956-2024, § 1, 7-29-2024)
Source: City of Columbus, City Codes and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/oh/columbus/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TIT41BUCO_CH4101DE_4101.16LEPFetched: 10/27/2026