This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Housing Code of the City of Port Jervis."
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A.
APPROVED
BASEMENT
BUILDING
CELLAR
DWELLING
DWELLING UNIT
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
EXTERIOR PROPERTY AREAS
EXTERMINATION
GARBAGE
GRADE
HABITABLE ROOM
INFESTATION
KITCHEN
KITCHENETTE
MULTIPLE RESIDENCE
OCCUPANT
OPENABLE AREA
OPERATOR
OWNER
PERSON
PLUMBING
PREMISES
PUBLIC HALL
ROOMING HOUSE
ROOMING UNIT
RUBBISH
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING
SUPPLIED
VENTILATION, MECHANICAL
VENTILATION, NATURAL
WATER CLOSET
Words defined.
Constructed, installed and maintained in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter and other pertinent ordinances or regulations
of the City or applicable therein.
A story partly underground but having at least 1/2 of its
height above the average level of the adjoining ground. A "basement"
shall be counted as a story for the purposes of height measurement
if vertical distance between the ceiling and the average level of
the adjoining ground is more than five feet or if used for business
or dwelling purposes.
Any structure having a roof for the shelter, housing or enclosure
of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.
An enclosed space within the foundation walls of a building
and having more than 1/2 of its height below the average level of
the adjoining ground. In no event shall a "cellar" be considered a
dwelling.
A building designed or used as the living quarters for one
or more families. The terms "dwelling," "one-family dwelling," "two-family
dwelling" and "dwelling group" shall not be deemed to include automobile
court, rooming or tourist home.
One or more rooms with provisions for living, cooking, sanitary,
and sleeping facilities arranged for the use of one family and not
having more than one kitchen or kitchenette. The term "dwelling unit"
shall not be deemed to include a hotel, motel, automobile court, tourist
home, furnished rooming house, dormitory, boarding home, convalescent
home, rest home, nursing home, or other accomodations used for transient
occupancy.
[Amended 4-8-2013 by L.L. No. 3-2013]
The Building Official or the person designated by a majority
of the Common Council to carry out the duties of enforcement and administration
specified in this chapter.
Open space on the premises and vacant open space on adjacent
premises.
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 or by any recognized
and legal pest elimination method approved by the enforcement officer.
The animal, vegetable and mineral waste resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
Natural surface of the ground, or surface of the ground after
completion of any change in contour, including the completed surfaces
of lawns, walks and roads brought to grades as shown on official plans
or designs relating thereto.
A room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used
for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, excluding stairways,
bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, pantries, foyers,
communicating corridors, closets or storage spaces.
The presence, within or around a dwelling, dwelling unit,
rooming house, rooming unit or premise, of insects, rodents, vermin
or other pests.
Space, 60 square feet or more in floor area, with a minimum
width of five feet, used in cooking or preparation of food and deemed
habitable space.
[Amended 4-8-2013 by L.L. No. 3-2013]
Space, less than 60 square feet in floor area, used for cooking
or preparation of food and not deemed habitable space.
[Amended 4-8-2013 by L.L. No. 3-2013]
A building containing three or more dwelling units; a building
containing living, sanitary and sleeping facilities occupied by one
or two families and more than four lodgers residing with either of
one of such families; a building with one or more sleeping rooms,
other than a one- or two-family dwelling, used or occupied by permanent
or transient paying guests or tenants.
Any person, including an owner or operator, over one year
of age, living, sleeping, cooking or eating in or having actual possession
of a dwelling unit or room in a rooming house.
Any part of a window or door which is available for unobstructed
ventilation and which opens directly to the outdoors.
Any person having charge, care, management or control of
any dwelling or part of it in which dwelling units or rooming units
are let.
Any person who, alone, jointly or severally with others,
holds legal or equitable title to any dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming
house or rooming unit.
An individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership.
All of the following supplied facilities and equipment: gas
pipes, gas-burning equipment, water pipes, garbage disposal units,
waste pipes, water closets, sinks, installed dishwashers, lavatories,
bathtubs, shower baths, installed clothes-washing machines, catch
basins, drains, vents and any other similar supplied fixtures, together
with all connections to water, sewer or gas lines.
A plotted lot or part thereof or unplotted lot or parcel
of land or plot of land, either occupied or unoccupied by any dwelling
or nondwelling structure, including the dwelling or structures thereon.
Any hall, corridor or passageway not within the exclusive
control of one family.
Any dwelling or part thereof which contains one or more rooming
units, in which space is let by the occupant or owner to three or
more persons not directly related to him.
Any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit
used or intended to be used for living or sleeping but not for cooking
or eating purposes.
All combustible and noncombustible waste, except garbage.
A dwelling occupied by one family alone.
Paid for, furnished or provided by or under the control of
the owner or operator, his agents and or representatives.
Any ventilation by power-driven devices.
Any ventilation by opening to outer air through windows,
skylights, doors, louvers or stacks, with or without wind-driven devices.
A toilet, with a bowl and trap, which is connected to the
City water and sewer system or to other approved water supply and
sewer system.
B.
Meaning of certain words. Whenever the words "building,"
"dwelling," "dwelling unit," "rooming house" and "premises" are used
in this chapter, they shall be construed as though they were followed
by the words "or any part thereof."
Every building used in whole or in part as a
dwelling unit or as two or more dwelling units, or used in whole or
in part as a rooming house, shall conform to the requirements of this
chapter irrespective of other uses in such building and irrespective
of when such building may have been constructed, altered or repaired.
No person shall occupy as owner-occupant or
let or rent to another for occupancy any dwelling, rooming house,
dwelling unit or rooming unit for the purpose of living, sleeping,
cooking or eating therein which does not comply with the requirements
of this chapter.
