§ 42-183. Definitions.

When used in this division, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly otherwise requires:

Applicant means any person, developer, builder or entity which requires fire protection services within the incorporated city limits as a result of development for the benefit of itself or a prospective future occupant.

Building means any structure, whether temporary or permanent, built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, chattels, or property of any kind. This term shall include tents, trailers, mobile homes, or any vehicles serving in any way the function of a building. This term shall not include temporary construction sheds or trailers erected to assist in construction and maintenance during the term of a building permit.

Building permit means an official document or certificate issued by the authority having jurisdiction authorizing the commencement of construction of any building or parts thereof; the term also includes construction plan approval for new mobile home development and new recreational vehicle spaces.

Certificate of occupancy means an official document or certificate issued by a municipality or the county under the authority of ordinance or law authorizing the occupancy for its intended use of a building, or any portion thereof.

Comprehensive plan means the comprehensive plan of the city adopted and amended pursuant to the Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Regulation Act.

Encumbered is in reference to funds for capital improvements, funds committed for a specified improvement on a specified time schedule.

Impact fee rate means an impact fee imposed for a particular type of construction under the applicable schedule of impact fees incorporated in section 42-185.

Impact fee statement means the document issued to an applicant prior to the issuance of a building permit containing the calculation of the impact fees imposed on construction in section 42-185.

Nonresidential structure means any building which fully encloses space for the occupancy by persons or their activities other than residential dwellings, including, but not limited to, professional buildings, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, warehouses, public assembly buildings or institutional buildings except for churches, public schools and governmental buildings.

Public facilities means the buildings, structures, equipment and facilities as may be necessary to meet the need for city fire protection, which are created by or a result of new development, including those costs incidental to the above.

Residential dwelling unit means a building, or portion thereof, designed for residential occupancy, consisting of one or more rooms which are arranged, designed or used as living quarters for one or more persons.

Residential structure means each single family residential dwelling unit and each residential dwelling unit of a condominium, duplex, triplex, mobile home, modular housing, manufactured home, apartment or multiple dwelling structure designated as a separate housing unit for one or more persons, whether temporarily or permanently utilized or designed or intended to be utilized for human habitation.

Square footage means the gross area measured in feet from the exterior faces of exterior walls or other exterior boundaries of the building or structure.

(Code 1988, § 11.5-115; Ord. No. 98-86, § 1, 12-10-98)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.