8.07.060 Definitions.
As used in this code, unless the context requires otherwise, the following mean:
Approved – Meets the standards set forth by the municipal code, the community development code, the building code, or other standards referenced in those codes, or is approved by the code official.
Bathroom – A room containing plumbing fixtures including a bathtub or shower.
Bedroom – Any room or space used or intended to be used for sleeping purposes.
Building code – The combined specialty codes described at ORS 455.010, as adopted and as may be amended by the City.
Code official – The code enforcement officer, chief building official or other person authorized by the city manager to enforce the provisions of this code.
Courtyard – An open space bounded on three or more sides by walls of a building.
Dwelling – Any structure containing a dwelling unit, including the following dwelling classifications:
A. Accessory Dwelling Unit. An additional dwelling unit within an attached or detached single-family dwelling.
B. Apartment. Any building or portion of a building containing three or more dwelling units that is intended to be occupied for residential living purposes by renting, leasing, letting, or hiring out, including condos.
C. Manufactured Dwelling. Including manufactured homes, mobile homes, and residential trailers.
D. Rowhouse. An attached single-family dwellings unit as defined by the State Building Code.
E. Single-Family Dwelling. A structure containing one dwelling unit, including adult foster care homes.
F. Single-Room Occupancy. A one-room dwelling unit provided for human habitation in which some or all sanitary or cooking facilities are shared with other occupants.
G. Social Care Facilities. Any building or portion of a building that is designed, built, rented, leased, let, hired out or otherwise occupied for group residential living purposes. Such facilities include, but are not limited to, retirement homes, assisted living facilities, residential care facilities, half-way houses, youth shelters, and homeless shelters.
H. Townhouse. An attached single-family dwellings unit as defined by the State Building Code.
I. Two-Family Dwelling. A structure containing two dwelling units, also known as a duplex.
Dwelling unit – A single unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation. Hotels used exclusively for transient occupancy are excluded from this definition of dwelling unit.
Exit – A continuous, unobstructed means of egress from a dwelling to the exterior of the building and to a public way.
Floor area – The area of clear floor space in a room exclusive of fixed or built-in cabinets or appliances.
Habitable – Suitable for human habitation.
Habitable space – The area inside a structure available for living, sleeping, eating or cooking, not including attics, bathrooms, closets, garages, halls, laundry rooms, storage spaces, toilet rooms, or utility rooms.
Hazardous materials – Materials defined by the current fire code adopted by the Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue District as hazardous.
Human habitation – The use of a structure, portion of the structure, or space, in which any person remains for a continuous period of two or more hours per day, or for periods which will accumulate to four or more hours in a day.
Occupant – Any individual living or sleeping in a dwelling, or having possession of a space within a dwelling.
Residential property – Real property and all improvements thereon including edifices, structures, buildings, dwelling units or parts thereof used or intended to be used for residential purposes including single-family, duplex, multifamily structures and mixed-use structures which have one or more dwelling units. Hotels used exclusively for transient occupancy are excluded from this definition of residential property. [ORS 105.425/Tigard]
Structure – A building constructed for any use. [BC 8.07.060, added by Ordinance No. 4448, 8/20/07; amended by Ordinance No. 4794, 12/1/20]