§ 15-65. Definitions.

For the purpose of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:

Business buildings: Any structure, whether public or private, regardless of the type of material used in its construction, located within the boundaries of the city that is adapted to the 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, beer parlors, office buildings, public buildings, stores, markets, restaurants, grain elevators and abattoirs, warehouses, workshops and factories.

Opening: 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: All business buildings, outhouses, sheds, barns, garages, docks, wharves, piers, grain elevators and abattoirs, whether public or private, and any and all other structures used in connection with the operation of any business building.

Rat harborage: 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: An inexpensive form of rat-proofing designed to prevent the ingress of rats into business buildings. It is essentially the closing or protecting of all openings in exterior walls and foundations or the grates in a sidewalk of business buildings with rat-proof materials installed in such a manner as to prevent rats from gaining entrance.

(Ord. No. 2419, 8-6-07)