§ 703.03. Letter B.  


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  • "Basement" means that portion of a building located partly below grade but having less than one-half (0.5) of its clear floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.

    "Bathroom" means a room, which affords privacy to a person and is equipped with a flush-water closet, a lavatory basin, and a bathtub or shower. The following clarifying phrases are pertinent to the term "bathroom":

    (A)

    "A room which affords privacy" shall mean a room which is completely enclosed when the door is closed.

    (B)

    The bathroom is not complete unless the facilities include all of the following items:

    (1)

    A flush water closet;

    (2)

    A lavatory basin;

    (3)

    A bathtub or shower facility;

    (4)

    Adequate heat; and

    (5)

    Heated and unheated water.

    (C)

    The bathroom requirements of subsection (B) above do not preclude the existence of flush water closets and lavatory basins in other locations within a dwelling, but they shall contribute nothing to meeting other minimum requirements.

    "Building" means any structure designed or built for the support, use, enclosure, shelter, or protection of persons, animals, chattels, or property of any kind.

    "Business building" means any structure, whether publicly owned or privately owned that is adapted for occupancy for transaction of business, for rendering of professional service, for amusement, for the display, sale, or storage of goods, wares or merchandise, or for the performance of work or labor, including hotels, apartment buildings, tenement houses, rooming houses, office buildings, public buildings, stores, theaters, markets, restaurants, grain elevators, slaughter houses, warehouses, workshops, factories, condominiums and all outhouses, sheds, barns, and other structures on premises used for business purposes.

(Ord. 858-01 §§ 1 (part), 3 (part).)