§ 17B-1. Definitions.

In this chapter the following words and phrases are defined as follows:

City means the City of Irving.

Fire chief means the Chief of the City of Irving Fire Department and his or her designee.

Fire department means the City of Irving Fire Department.

Evacuation capability means the ability of occupants, residents, and staff as a group either to evacuate a building or to relocate from the point of occupancy to a point of safety.

Landlord means the owner, owner's agent, lessor or sublessor of a dwelling; any person who has control of the dwelling unit.

Manager means a person in control of the property. This term includes landlord.

Owner means a person claiming, or in whom is vested, the ownership, dominion, or title to real property, including but not limited to:

(1)

The owner of fee simple title;

(2)

The holder of a life estate;

(3)

The holder of a leasehold estate for an initial term of five (5) years or more;

(4)

The buyer in a contract for deed;

(5)

A mortgagee, receiver, executor, or trustee in control of real property;

(6)

The landlord, lessor or sublessor of a dwelling or apartment building; and

(7)

The agent of the owner, lease-holder, landlord, lessor, sublessor, buyer, mortgagee, or other person in control of the property.

Person means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate trust, partnership, association, two (2) or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity.

Personal care means assistance in meeting the demands of daily living provided to a resident by a person who is paid for the service and who is not related by blood or marriage to all the persons in the facility to whom this assistance is afforded. The phrase includes but is not limited to one or more of the following: Assuming responsibility for the safety of the resident while the resident is in the facility, being aware of the resident's functioning and whereabouts, making and reminding the resident of appointments, being ready and able to intervene in the event of a resident's crises, furnishing emergency pull cords in bedrooms and other resident living areas, providing staff whose duties include responding to emergency notification by the resident, supervising the resident's nutrition and medication, providing planned activities for the resident, and providing to the resident the kind of medical care that is normally provided in the home by one family member for another.

Property manager means a person who has managing control of real property. In a condominium regime, this includes the council of owners.

Residential board and care facility means a facility designed for or used as a residence for sixteen (16) or more persons who are not all related by blood or marriage to the staff or to the owner of the facility in which the staff provides personal care but not nursing care or acute care to the residents or the majority of whose residents were sixty-two (62) years of age or older or were disabled and were capable of independent living when each of them first began to reside at the facility. The phrase does not include nursing homes or hospitals. The phrase includes but is not limited to boarding homes, board and care homes, halfway houses, retirement homes, rooming houses, an community living facilities.

(Ord. No. 7012, § 1, 4-8-97)