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20 t 596 Plrunhhig system includes the water supply and distribution pipes, plumbing fixtures,, supports and appurtenances, soil, waste and vent pipes: sanitary drains and building sewers to an approved point of disposal. Premises shall mean a lot, plot or parcel of land, including the buildings or structures thereon. Public areas/space shall mean that space within or about any structure which is open to use or access by the general public. Public authority shall mean any public authority for housing or any officer who is in charge of any department, or branch of the government of Lee County or the State of North Carolina relating to health, fire, building regulations, or other activities concerning dwellings or buildings in the county. Residential building shall mean any building or structure, or portion thereof, which is used, or designed or intended to be used for human habitation including living, sleeping, cooking and eating or any combination thereof. Removal shall mean the demolition and removal of the entire structure, leaving the property free and clean of debris, and without holes or pockets which may retain water. Rooming house shall mean any dwelling, or that part of any dwelling containing one or more rooming units, in which space is let by the owner or operator to three (3) or more persons who are not members of the family of the ms ner or operator. Rooming unit shall mean any room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking or eating purposes. Rubbish shall mean combustible and noncombustible waste materials, except garbage. The term shall include, but not be limited to combustible material, wood- paper, rigs, cartons- boxes, tires= mattresses, tree branches- %ard trimmings, metals, glass, crockery, furniture or appliances stored in the open which arc not intended for outdoor use, and including immobilized vehicles or parts thereof. Store shill mean that portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor or roof next above. Stritcnne shall mean that which is built or constricted- an edifice or building of any kind- or any piece of work artificialh built up or composed of pans joined together in some definite mmuter The tern stricture shall he construed as if followed by the words "or part thereof." Substandard shall mean anv condition existing in any housing or structure which does not meet the standards of fitness of this code. Temporan, homsing shall mean any tent- trailer or other structure which is designed to be transportable, and which is not attached to the ground, to another structure- or to any utility system on the same premises for more than thirty (30) consecutive days. Tenant moans a person, co-partnership, firm or corporation occupying or using a building, premises or anv pan or parts thereof owned by another. Unfit for hummn habitation means any of those certain conditions that exist as set forth under Division I\'. Ventilation shall mean the adequate supply and removal of air to and from it space through windows, skvlicAhts_ doors. louvers. Brills. ducts or oilier similar devices. C:mxdocAsrAadminisrnativcfiles\orclinancct.mhorciinancc-leeco-upduted9/l lilt 3