A. "Code enforcement" or "code enforcement activity" means an activity or activities initiated by the City to require an owner to bring the property into compliance with applicable laws including, but not limited to, actions by the Building Official or Fire Marshal after a fire ordering relocation.

B. "Household" or "tenant household" for purposes of this chapter means one or more individuals entitled to the occupancy of a rental unit or room who share living expenses.

C. "Natural disaster" means any natural event which results in damage to property, such as, but not limited to, an earthquake, flood, or forest fire.

D. "Owner" means a person, persons, corporation, partnership or any other entity possessing ownership of a property individually, jointly, in common or in any other manner or their agent or assignee.

E. "Relocate" or "relocation" means the required vacating of a residential unit or room by a tenant household and the moving temporarily into another unit or room as a result of repairs required to bring the building or a portion thereof which contains a residential unit or room occupied by the tenant household into code compliance whether such repairs are undertaken because of code enforcement or through voluntary code compliance as defined below.

F. "Residential unit" or "unit" means a building or portion of a building designed for, or occupied exclusively by, one or more persons living as a household.

G. "Room" means a room in a hotel or boarding house or a rented room in a private dwelling occupied by a tenant household for at least thirty (30) consecutive days.

H. "Voluntary code compliance" means actions voluntarily initiated by an owner to achieve compliance with applicable laws including, but not limited to, fumigation, as well as to seismically retrofit a building on the inventory of potentially hazardous soft story buildings established under Chapter 19.39 so as to remove it from such inventory under Section 19.39.080.B if such retrofit is required by the City. (Ord. 7456-NS § 1, 2016: Ord. 7212-NS § 1 (part), 2011)