East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1954-12-02

years and not a member Of the
family or related to a member of
the family by blood or marriage
who is boarded, kept or main
tanned for compensation by such
family.
(n) An "aged" or "infirm" per-
son is an individual who, by rea-
son of his or her age can no longer
perform the usual physical or
mental functions of normal per-
son in full possession of his mental
or physical faculties; or who,
through physical or mental defect
or defects is unable to perform
the necessary act or acts usually
performed by normal person in
full possession of his mental or
physical faculties; or one who by
reason of immaturity or physical
or mental defects or ailments is
unable to perform such act or acts
as may be necessary for the pre-
servation of his life or person in
an emergency"
be and the same is hereby amended
to read as follows:
SECTION 1: DEFINITIONS.
Certain words in this ordinance
are defined for the purposes hereof
as follows:
(a) Words in the present tense
include the future; the singular
number includes the plural and
the plural includes the singular.
(b) A proprietor" is the owner,
vendee, mortgage or receiver,
lessee or joint lessee, or an agent
or any other person, firm or cor
poration directly in control of an
entire building used for habitation,
including appurtenant land and
structures.
(c) A family" is any number
of individuals related to the NOM
inal head of the household as hus-
band or wife, son or daughter,
father or mother, sister or brother
or their spouses and dependent
children living in a single dwelling
unit. A family may consist of one
individual.
(d) A dwelling" is a building
intended or designed to be occupied
by not more than two (2) families
living separately and independently
of each other.
(e) An apartment house" is
building containing three or more
dwelling units or two or more
dwelling units above the first or
ground floor. For the purpose of
applying this definition, dwelling
units on the third floor of any
building originally constituting a
dwelling shall not be counted. The
words tenement house" and
apartment house" are synony-
nous.
(f) A dwelling unit" is a group
of rooms arranged, maintained or
designed to be occupied by single
family and shall consist of COM
plete bathroom with toilet, lava
tory and tub or shower facilities;
a complete kitchen or kitchenette
with approved cooking, refrigera-
tion and sink facilities; and ade-
quate living and sleeping facilities;
all of which are used exclusively
by such family and by any author
lied persons occupying such dwell
ing unit with the family. Where
the required facilities for a dwell
ing unit are not contiguous, the
Board of Zoning Appeals shall
determine whether such facilities
constitute a dwelling unit. The
words dwelling unit, "apart-
ment", and "suite" shall be con-
sidered synonymous.
(g) A tenant" is the lessee or
renter of a portion of a building
used for habitation. Such portion
of a building may include appur-
tenont land and structures.
(h) A "roomer" is a person,
other than a member of the fam
lily of the proprietor or a tenant,
who rents one or more rooms, not
constituting a complete dwelling