§ 42-266. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

City services means the following municipal services provided by the city: certain administrative costs caused by new development, parks and recreation, planning and development, public safety, code enforcement, engineering, street maintenance, and public works.

Dwelling means any structure or portion thereof intended for residential use, including but not limited to a house, duplex, apartment or condominium.

Dwelling unit means any portion of a multiple-family dwelling consisting of its own sleeping quarters and constituting a separate residence for single-family occupancy.

Interim proprietary and general services fee or interim services fee means a user fee calculated on an annual basis and imposed on a structure certified for occupancy by the city building official, but not yet listed on the county tax rolls as an improvement to real property.

Net cost of city services means estimated cost of all annual expenditures from the general fund for city services less non-ad-valorem revenues.

New development or newly developed means the construction of a structure to improve or alter real property, either from its natural state or where there exists or once existed another structure, to facilitate a residential, retail, commercial, office or industrial use.

Nonresidential unit means any lodging unit, which shall mean any room or sleeping quarters in a hotel, motor or other commercial lodging establishment excluding dwellings and dwelling units; any retail store or single-occupancy commercial structure; each individual retail space in a multiple-occupancy retail structure; each individual commercial space in a multiple-occupancy commercial structure; any single-occupancy industrial structure; each individual space in a multiple-occupancy industrial structure; any single-occupancy office building; each individual office space in a multiple-occupancy office building; and any warehouse or any unit in a warehouse facility subdivided into individual units and used primarily as leased storage space.

Owner means that person or legal entity reflected on the public records of the county, including the county tax records, as the owner of real property, upon which a structure has been erected.

Residential unit means any single-family dwelling and each dwelling unit of a townhouse, duplex, condominium or other multiple-family dwelling, including but not limited to nursing homes providing longterm care.

Structure means any temporary or permanent residential, lodging or nonresidential building or unit built for the support, shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind, for which a certificate of occupancy is required, and constructed upon real property located within the incorporated municipal limits of the city.

(Code 1988, § 20-51)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.