Bridgeport, Conn., Mun. Code §§ 15.12, 15.28 § 15.12.010

The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:
"Apartment building" means and includes any buildings consisting of three or more dwelling units with independent cooking and dining facilities and complete bathroom facilities for each unit whether designated as an apartment, tenement, garden apartment or known by any other name. A building containing five to fifteen (15) individual roomers shall be classified as a rooming house.
"Basement" means a portion of a building located partly underground, but having less than half its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
"Board of health" means the department of health and social services of the city.
"Building constituting a menace to public safety" means: 1.
Any building or other structure of wood frame construction which is so constructed as to endanger more than ordinarily the safety of persons therein in case of fire, or so situated as to endanger more than ordinarily other building or property in the vicinity in case of fire, or so constructed or situated as to render the same peculiarly susceptible to fire from within or without; or
2. Any building or other structure which by reason of rot, or of weakened joints, walls, floors, underpinning, roofs, ceilings, or of insecure foundations, or of any other cause has become so dilapidated or deteriorated as to endanger the safety of persons therein or nearby; or
3. Buildings Deemed to Be Unsafe. As used in this subsection, "unsafe building" means a building that constitutes a fire hazard or is otherwise dangerous to human life or the public welfare. A vacant structure that is not secured against entry shall be deemed unsafe.
"Cellar" means a portion of a building located partly or wholly underground, and having half or more than half of its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
"Director of health" means the legally designated health authority of the city or his authorized representative as determined by the state department of health.
"Dwelling" means any building which is wholly or partly used or arranged or designed to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants.
"Dwelling unit" means one or more rooms arranged for the use of one or more individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit with cooking, living, sanitary and sleeping facilities.
"Enforcement officer" means the housing code enforcement officer who is designated in this chapter or otherwise charged with the responsibilities of administering this code, or his authorized representative.
"Extermination" means the professional control and elimination of insects, rodents or other pests, by eliminating their harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, trapping or by any other recognized and legal pest elimination methods, approved by the director of health.
"Garbage" means all kitchen refuse of residences, hotels, rooming houses, class I and II, restaurants or other places where food is prepared for human consumption, and all offal from fish, meat and vegetable markets, and all vegetable or organic substances unfit for food that are subject to immediate decay.
"Habitable room" means a room of enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, excluding bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, pantries, foyers or communicating corridors, closets and storage spaces.
"Hotel" means and includes any building or group of buildings under the same management in which there are more than fifteen (15) sleeping accommodations for hire, primarily used by transient residents who are lodged with or without meals, whether designated as a hotel, inn, club, motel or known by some other name. So-called apartment hotels shall be classified as hotels because they are potentially subject to transient occupancy like that of hotels.
"Infestation" means the presence, within a dwelling or structure, of any insects, rodents, vermin or other pests which constitute a health hazard.
"Lead-based paint" means any paint containing more than six one-hundredths of one percent lead by weight (calculated as lead metal) in the total nonvolatile content of liquid paint or one-half of one percent lead by dry weight as measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometry, in the dried film of paint already applied or such more stringent standards as may be issued by the Chairperson of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission.
"Members of the immediate family" means husband or wife, son or daughter, mother or father, sister or brother of the owner, lessee or person controlling such building.
"Moderate cooking facilities" means portable electric "plug-in" and/or small gas appliance and a refrigerator or an icebox.
"Multiple dwelling" means any dwelling containing more than two dwelling units.
"Occupant" means any person over one year of age, living, sleeping, cooking or eating in, or having actual possession of, a dwelling unit or rooming unit.
"Operator" means any person who has charge, care or control of a building, or part thereof, in which dwelling units or rooming units are let, whether with or without the knowledge or consent of the owner.
"Owner" means any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others: 1.
Shall have legal or equitable title to any dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof:
2. Shall have charge, care or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or as executor, executrix, administrator, administratrix, trustee, receiver or guardian of the estate of the owner. Any such person thus representing the actual owner shall be bound to comply with the provisions of this chapter, and of rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, to the same extent as if he were the owner; or
3. For the purposes of Sections 15.12.400 through 15.12.470 , "owner" is defined to mean the holder or holders of the record title and all recorded interests therein on the day upon which the notice of condemnation hearing is issued.
"Person" means and includes any individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership.
"Plumbing" means and includes all of the following supplies, facilities and equipment: gas pipes, gas burning equipment, water pipes, garbage disposal units, waste pipes, water closets, sinks, installed clothes washing machines, installed clothes dryers, installed dishwashers, lavatories, bathtubs, shower baths, catch basins, drains, vents and any other similar supplied fixtures, together with all connections to water, sewer or gas lines and water pipes and lines utilized in conjunction with air-conditioning equipment.
"Roomer" means any person who shall occupy a room for hire in any rooming house.
"Rooming house, class I" means a residence inhabited by five to fifteen (15) roomers who are not members of the immediate family of an owner-occupant, providing facilities for living and sleeping. Sanitary facilities shall be available for each ten persons or fraction thereof. As of September 14, 1974, cooking facilities of any kind are not allowed within this classification. Any licensed rooming house in existence as of September 14, 1974, that has moderate cooking facilities within the rooms, shall have the right under Section 15.12.060 to appeal to the board of condemnation, appeals board for this chapter, requesting a hearing on the moderate cooking facility exclusion. The board of condemnation shall have the authority to deny or grant moderate cooking facilities in existing licensed rooming houses following such hearing. Owners of existing licensed rooming houses shall be notified of their right of appeal at the expiration of existing rooming house license. The appeal procedure shall not apply to new applications for rooming house class I licenses. A "rooming house class I" shall comply with all city and state health codes and state fire safety code.
"Rooming house, class II" means a residence inhabited by five to fifteen (15) individual roomers, who are not members of the immediate family of an owner-occupant, providing facilities for living and sleeping. Sanitary facilities shall be available for each ten persons or fraction thereof. Separate and distinct space must be made available from the rooming units in which meals are provided and prepared by the proprietor or his representative solely for residents residing in the building. Prior to the issuance of a rooming house, class II license, a restaurant license (limited) must be obtained from the city director of health. A rooming house, class II must comply with all city and state health codes and the state fire safety code.
"Rooming house operator" means any person or persons conducting or operating any rooming house and any person or persons supervising, managing or controlling the operation and maintenance of such rooming house.
"Rooming unit" means a room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not providing cooking, dining or sanitary facilities.
"Rubbish" means all combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage, and the term shall include, but not be limited to, the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke and other combustible material, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, plastic or other synthetic materials, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery, abandoned automobiles and dust.
"Sanitary facility" means a separate, enclosed room with adequate ventilation and light containing one or more bathtubs or showers and lavatories with hot and cold running water and which also contains one or more water closets with cold running water.
"Story" means that portion of a building between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a building between the upper surface of the topmost floor and the upper surface of the roof above.
"Supplied" means paid for, furnished or provided by, or under the control of the owner or operator.
"Temporary housing" means any structure classified as a shed, shack, houseboat, trailer, body of any vehicle or any other structure of similar category within the city.
Meaning of certain words. Whenever the words "dwelling," "dwelling unit," "rooming house," "rooming unit," "premises," are used in this chapter, they shall be construed as if they were followed by the words "or any part thereof."