APARTMENT shall mean a rental dwelling unit.

CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION shall mean a certificate, issued to an owner of a multi-dwelling unit structure, motel, hotel, lodging house, rental housing unit or similar facility, which signifies that at the time of issuance, the residential dwelling structure met the requirements for human occupancy.

CITY shall mean the City of Clearlake, or its authorized agent.

CODE ENFORCEMENT shall mean a division operated and under the control of the City of Clearlake Community Development Department which is designated by the Community Development Department Director to be responsible for the enforcement of the provisions set forth in this section.

DWELLING UNIT shall mean any building or portion thereof, including a manufactured home or portion thereof, which contains living facilities, including provisions for sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation as required by the Uniform Building Code for not more than one (1) family, including domestic employees of such family.

MOTEL/HOTEL shall mean a building or buildings each containing one (1) or more guest rooms or dwelling units or combination thereof, designed, used and intended wholly, or in part, for the accommodation of transients. This term does not include a jail, hospital, extended-care facility, convalescent home, licensed board and care facility, asylum, sanitarium, orphanage, prison, dormitory that is owned and operated by an educational institution, or other buildings in which human beings are housed and detained under legal restraint.

OCCUPANT shall mean any person who occupies a dwelling unit, whether as a tenant or subtenant.

OWNER shall mean that person or entity, including the duly appointed agent of the owner, holding a vested interest in a given property and appearing as a legal owner of record on the most current deed recorded in the county recorder’s office on the day of the inspection or reinspection.

PERSON shall mean an individual, partnership, limited partnership, corporation, association, or public entity or corporation.

PREMISES shall mean and include all buildings located on continuous parcels of land under common ownership.

REASONABLE TIMES shall mean 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday unless another time is mutually agreed upon.

RENTAL DWELLING UNIT shall mean a dwelling unit in a multi-unit residential building or structure including motels, hotels, rooming and boarding houses and similar living accommodations; which unit is held out for or is rented, leased, subleased, or otherwise permitted to be occupied by other than the owner on a rental basis for one (1) or more days in any given calendar year.

RENTAL HOUSING UNIT shall mean any residential dwelling in a single structure, or in a group of attached or detached structures containing one (1) or more such dwelling units on the same parcel of land under common ownership that (a) contains one (1) or more rooms with a single kitchen designated for living and sleeping purposes as an independent housekeeping unit, and (b) is occupied or intended to be occupied on a rental basis for one (1) or more days in any given calendar year. (Ord. #102-01)