[Ord. No. 2021-2329, 6/8/2021]
As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall
have the meanings hereby as described thereto:
Any person designated by the owner who has charge, care or
control of a residential rental property.
Acceptable to the Code Official.
The provisions of this chapter and any regulations adopted
pursuant thereto.
The official who is charged with the administration and enforcement
of this Code, or any duly authorized representative.
Any building that contains one or two dwelling units, intended,
or designed to be built, used, rented, leased, let or hired out to
be occupied, or that are occupied for living and/or sleeping purposes.
A building or structure containing five or more rooming or
sleeping units, where the public may, for a consideration, obtain
sleeping accommodations, which may have apartments in connection with
rooms for rent and which:
Any dwelling, including apartment dwellings or parts thereof,
containing three or more dwelling units.
Any person (including an owner or operator) living and sleeping
in a dwelling unit or rooming unit.
Any person having charge, care, management or control of
any dwelling or a part of it, in which dwelling units, sleeping units
or rooming units are let. See also "agent."
Any person who, alone or severally with others, holds legal
or equitable title to any dwelling, rooming house, dwelling unit or
rooming unit.
A dwelling, dwelling unit, sleeping unit or rooming unit
in which the owner of record occupies the dwelling, dwelling or rooming
unit as his primary residence and resides therein for a minimum of
181 days per annum.
An individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership.
A lot, plot or parcel of land including the buildings and
structures thereon.
A permit issued by the Code Enforcement Department upon the
request of an applicant to transfer improved real estate within the
Borough of Phoenixville on which there exists one or more habitable,
formerly or potentially habitable structures, conditioned on meeting
the administrative inspection requirements of this chapter. Also known
as a certificate use and occupancy.
An annual license issued to the owner of a dwelling unit
after having met the chapter's inspection requirements and satisfying
the associated remittance.
A dwelling, rooming or sleeping unit in which the owner of
record does not occupy said unit as his primary residence and reside
therein for a minimum of 181 days per annum.
A building arranged or used for lodging for compensation,
without meals, and not occupied as a one- or two-family dwelling.
Installed, furnished or provided by the owner or operator
at his expense.
A person, corporation, partnership or group, whether or not
the legal owner of record, occupying a building or portion thereof
as a unit.
Any dwelling containing two dwelling units.
Shall refer to any one of the following:
DWELLING UNITA single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
ROOMING UNITAny room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping but not for cooking or eating purposes.
SLEEPING UNITA room or space in which people sleep, which can also include permanent provisions for living, eating, and either sanitation or kitchen facilities but not both. Such rooms and spaces that are also part of a dwelling unit are not sleeping units.
An open space on the same lot with a structure.
