§ 82-386. 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:

Business building means any structure, whether public or private, vacant or occupied, 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, 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, roominghouses, boardinghouses, apartment houses, beer houses, beer parlors, office buildings, public buildings, stores, markets, restaurants, grain elevators and abattoirs, warehouses, work shops and factories, junkyards, scrap iron businesses or places, lumberyards, coal yards, automobile tire yards, sheds or buildings used for the storage of tires and any or all similar places where rats may find harborage.

Opening means any opening in the foundation, side or walls of any business building, including roof, chimney, eaves, grills, windows, sidewalk grates and sidewalk elevators, through which a rat may pass.

Premises includes all business buildings, outhouses, sheds, barns, garages, docks, wharves, piers, grain elevators and abattoirs, whether public or private, poultry houses, chicken yards, alleys or other areas where poultry, turkeys, ducks, geese, guinea hens, pigeons or other fowl, horses, mules, cattle, goats, rabbits, calves, squirrels, dogs, cats, swine or other animals, are kept, housed or stabled and all other structures used in connection with the operation of any business building.

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.

Rat stoppage means any inexpensive form of ratproofing designed to prevent the ingress of rats into business buildings and is essentially the closing or protecting of all openings in exterior walls and foundations or the grates in a sidewalk of business buildings with ratproof materials installed in such a manner as to prevent rats from gaining entrance.

(Code 1956, § 54-1)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.