§ 15-101. Definitions.

For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall mean:

Business building shall mean any structure, whether public or private, regardless of the type of material used in its construction, located within the boundaries of the city that is adapted to occupancy for the transaction of business, whether vacant or occupied, for the rendering of professional services, for the display, sale or storage of goods, wares or merchandise or for the performance of work or labor, including hotels, rooming houses, beer parlors, office buildings, public buildings, stores, markets, restaurants, grain elevators, abattoirs, warehouses, workshops and factories, or any other structures not mentioned above.

Opening shall mean and refer to any opening in the foundation, side or walls of any business building, including the roof, chimney, eaves, grills, windows, sidewalk grates and sidewalk elevators, through which a rat may enter.

Premises shall include all business buildings, outhouses, sheds, barns, garages, docks, wharves, piers, grain elevators and abattoirs, whether public or private, and any and all other structures used in connection with the operation of any business building as defined in this section.

Rat harborage shall mean any condition found to exist under or in which rats may find shelter or protection, and shall include any defective construction which would permit the entrance of rats into any business building.

Rat-stoppage shall mean any form of ratproofing designed to prevent the ingress of rats into business buildings. It is essentially the closing or protecting of all openings in exterior or interior walls and foundation or grates in a sidewalk of business buildings with ratproof materials installed in such a manner as to prevent rats from gaining entrance.

(Code 1950, § 47-1; Code 1959, § 18-40)