Hopkins, Minn., Code of Ordinances ch. 20, art. III § 20-121

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:
Apartment building means any building or portion thereof that contains three or more dwelling units, sleeping rooms, or a combination thereof but not including condominiums, cooperatives or town homes.
Building official means the building official for the city or their duly authorized representatives.
Condominium means a single dwelling unit in a multi-dwelling unit building that is separately owned and may be combined with an undivided interest in the common areas and facilities of the property. Each individual owner may sell or encumber their own unit.
Cooperative, Housing Cooperative or co-op means a residential housing option that is a corporation whereby owners do not own their units outright, but are shareholders and have equity in the corporation.
Denial means the refusal to grant a license to a new or renewing applicant by the city.
Drug-related illegal activity means the illegal possession, manufacture, sale, distribution, purchase, use, or possession with intent to manufacture, sell, or distribute a controlled substance as defined in the Controlled Substance Act, 21 USC 802, or possession of drug paraphernalia as defined in M.S.A. § 152.092.
Dwelling, single-family means a building or portion thereof containing one dwelling unit. A single-family dwelling unit includes a free standing single-family residence, a single dwelling in a cooperative, an individual condominium or townhouse, a single dwelling unit in a nonresidential structure or a dwelling unit offered for rent in a duplex in which the owner occupies the other dwelling unit.
Dwelling, two-family means a building or portion thereof containing two dwelling units.
Dwelling unit means a single unit providing complete, independent, living facilities for one or more persons in one common household, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
Efficiency dwelling unit means a dwelling unit containing only one habitable room plus bathroom facilities.
Family (see definition of relative).
Fire chief means the fire chief for the city or their duly authorized representatives.
Lease means an oral or written agreement between a dwelling unit owner and a tenant for temporary use of a rental dwelling unit, usually in exchange for payment of rent.
License means the formal approval of an activity specified on the certificate of license issued by the city.
Nuisance means any substance, matter, emission, or thing which creates a dangerous or unhealthy condition or which threatens the public peace, health, safety, or sanitary condition of the city or which is offensive or has a blighting influence on the community and which is found upon, in, being discharged or flowing from any street, alley, highway, railroad right-of-way, vehicle, railroad car, water, excavation, building, erection, lot, grounds, or other property located within the city, see chapter 28 .
Relative means individuals with legal, financial or shared caregiving responsibilities for each other's welfare including: spouse, domestic partners, parent (including in-laws), child (including biological, step-child, foster child, adopted child or adult child or in-laws) sibling, grandchild (including biological, step-child, foster child, adopted child or adult child), grandparent, any adult with legal guardianship status, custody or those serving loco parentis and other persons operating in a caretaker roles relative to the owner of the property.
Rent means the consideration paid by a tenant to the owner of a rental dwelling unit for temporary and exclusive use of the rental dwelling unit by the tenant. The consideration is not limited to cash.
Rental dwelling unit means a dwelling unit or sleeping room occupied and leased by a tenant.
Revoke means to take back a license issued by the city.
Sleeping room means any room used or intended to be used by a tenant for sleeping purposes with or without meals and not licensed by the state or county department of health and department of human services.
Suspend means to make a license temporarily inoperative.
Tenant means any adult person granted temporary use of a rental dwelling unit or sleeping room pursuant to a lease with the owner of the rental dwelling unit.
Townhouse means a single-family dwelling constructed in a group of dwellings attached to each other and where each dwelling unit extends from the foundation to the roof and is separated from other dwelling units by property lines.