Linwood Township, Minn., Code of Ordinances ch. 8, art. V § 8-205

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:
Building code means the Minnesota State Building Code.
Code official means the town building official, as appointed by the town board, and any designee of such code official.
Electrical code means the Minnesota State Electrical Code.
Extermination means the control and elimination of insects, rodents, or other pests by eliminating their harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, or trapping; or by any other recognized and legal pest elimination method approved by the code official.
Fire code means the Minnesota State Fire Code.
Fire official means the town fire department's fire chief, fire warden or designee of such fire official.
Health officer means any elected or appointed health officer of the state, the county or the town.
Infestation means the presence of insects, rodents or other pests in numbers large enough to be harmful, threatening or obnoxious to human life.
Lease, leased and let mean, in each instance any of these words is used, the giving of the use of a building or structure, or portion thereof, by an owner or manager to a tenant in return for rent.
Manager means a person or entity who has charge, care or control of a rental dwelling.
Mechanical code means the Minnesota State Mechanical Code.
Nuisance means any of the following: (1)
Any public nuisance as defined in section 10-20 ;
(2) Any unsafe condition that is attractive to minors, including, but not limited to, unprotected well openings or excavations, abandoned refrigerators and structurally unsound fences;
(3) Overcrowding of a rental dwelling unit with human occupants or personal property;
(4) Insufficient ventilation or illumination of a rental dwelling unit;
(5) Inadequate or unsanitary sewage or plumbing facilities serving a rental dwelling unit; or
(6) Any unsafe condition, as determined by the code official or health officer.
Owner means a person or entity that owns or has any ownership interest in a rental dwelling within the town.
Plumbing code means the State of Minnesota Plumbing Code.
Premises means, collectively, a rental dwelling and the parcel of land on which it is located.
Refuse means all putrescible and non-putrescible waste solids including garbage and rubbish.
Rent means the consideration provided by a tenant (or on behalf of a tenant) for the temporary possession of a rental dwelling unit, whether paid in money, property or services.
Rental dwelling means a building or structure wholly or partially leased or intended to be leased to one or more tenants for residential living or sleeping purposes, but excluding rest homes, convalescent homes, nursing homes, hotels and motels.
Rental dwelling unit means a room or group of rooms within a rental dwelling that has bathroom, kitchen and sleeping facilities for one household of related or unrelated tenants.
Safe means being reasonably free from dangers and hazards that may cause human injury or illness.
Substandard dwelling unit means any rental dwelling unit that is not safe due to inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, physical damage, unsanitary condition, abandonment or any other reason.
Tenant means a human occupant of a rental dwelling unit, whether one or more.
Unsafe means not safe.
Variance means the difference between that which is required or specified and that which is permitted.