Albert Lea, Minn., Code of Ordinances ch. 26, art. II § 26.023

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:
Agent means a person appointed by the rental housing license holder, who resides within a sixty-mile (60-mile) radius of the city measured from the city hall, to whom the city may service notices pertaining to the administration of the provisions of this Code pertaining to such rental housing.
Dormitory means buildings or spaces in buildings where group sleeping accommodations are provided, or a series of closely associated rooms without individual cooking facilities and with common toilet and bathroom facilities.
Dwelling unit means a single unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one (1) or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, sanitation and meeting the definition of rental housing.
Enforcement officer means the police department, fire department and development services department, city engineer, superintendents or any other city employee designated by the city manager to enforce the provisions of this Code.
Lease means an agreement to rent. (For use as a verb, see Rent .)
Long-term hotel means any hotel, as defined in Minn. Stats. § 157.15, in which a dwelling unit is held out or available to the public for sleeping or residential purposes for periods of one (1) week or more.
Mail service by mail means by depositing the item with the United States Postal Service addressed to the intended recipient at his last known address with first class postage prepaid thereon.
Maintenance means an individual who is hired or is applying to be hired by an owner and who has or would have the means, within the scope of the individual's duties, to enter a tenant's dwelling unit. Duties include, but are not limited to, performing specified repairs or maintenance to common areas as well as the inside of tenants' units of the premises.
Manager means an individual who is hired or is applying to be hired by an owner and who has or would have the means, within the scope of the individual's duties, to enter a tenant's dwelling unit. The manager may also act as the property agent.
Occupant means any person living, sleeping, cooking or eating in or having actual possession of a dwelling unit or rooming unit for more than ten (10) days in a consecutive thirty (30) day period.
Rent means any consideration paid for the exclusive use of the dwelling unit, including, but not limited to, money, services or a combination thereof, paid or delivered at fixed intervals periodically as agreed upon.
Rental housing means any building structure or enclosure, including any dwelling, dwelling unit, mobile home, apartment, long-term hotel, rooming house, Airbnb, vacation rentals, boutique hotels, bed and breakfasts, single room occupancy, or other in-home based rental living occupancies wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes by human occupants, rented or offered for rent by any person to any other person or persons for residential purposes by such other person or persons. The term "rental housing" does not include rest homes, convalescent homes, nursing homes, hotels, motels, dormitories or facilities currently licensed by the state.
Roominghouse means any building or structure with rooms used or furnished for living and sleeping purposes, but not cooking purposes, along with private or shared sanitation facilities, by or to the public as regular roomers for periods of one (1) week or more.
Unrelated means individuals who are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption. For the purposes of this chapter, the term "related by blood" means whole or half relation between a common ancestor or descendant, husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, stepchildren, legally adopted children, grandmother, grandfather, state-assigned foster children, first cousin, or any combination of the above persons.