§ 12-136. Definitions.

(a)

As used in this Division:

(1)

Business building shall mean any structure, whether public or private, regardless of the type of material used in its construction, located within the jurisdiction of the County, that is adapted to occupancy for transaction of business, whether vacant or occupied, 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, rooming houses, apartment houses, beer parlors, office buildings, public buildings, theaters, stores, markets, restaurants, warehouses, grain elevators, abattoirs, work shops, factories, and all public or private structures where domestic or other animals are kept.

(2)

Opening shall mean any opening in the foundation sides or walls, ground, or first floor, basement, and roofs, including chimneys, eaves, grills, windows, ventilators, sidewalk grates, and elevators, and around any pipe, wire, or other installation connecting with a building, through which a rodent may enter.

(3)

Premises shall mean all business buildings, sheds, barns, animal pens or shelters, garages, docks, wharves, piers, grain elevators, and abattoirs, whether public or private, used in connection with the operation of any business building.

(4)

Rodent harborage shall mean any condition which provides shelter or protection for rodents, thus favoring their multiplication and continued existence in, under or outside of a structure of any kind.

(5)

Rodent-stoppage or rodent-proofing shall mean a relatively inexpensive form of rodent-proofing to prevent the ingress of rodents into business buildings from the exterior or from one building or business establishment to another. It consists essentially of the closing or protection of all openings in the exterior walls, ground, or first floors, basements, roofs, and foundations with material impervious to rodent gnawing in such a manner as to prevent rodents from gaining entrance.

(Ord. and Res. 1963, Sec. 9-10; CB-127-1987)