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O'r <br />5 <br />(32) "Residential" means all dwellings, structures, containing <br />dwelling and rooming units, accessory structures and yards. <br />(33) "Roomer" means a person who is provided with living or <br />sleeping quarters with a rooming dwelling. <br />(34) "Rooming dwelling" means a dwelling containing rooming <br />units. <br />(35) "Rooming unit" means a room or group of rooms located <br />within a rooming dwelling used or intended to be used for <br />living and sleeping, but not for cooking purposes. Such <br />rooming unit shall meet or exceed the required floor <br />appears as stated in 7.2(b). <br />(36). "Sanitary" means free of grease, excrement, dirt, food <br />residue, garbage, rust or similar matter which can harbor <br />bacteria unsafe to humans or animals, or which produces <br />strong odors or which provides food for, or is an available <br />source of food for animals or insects. <br />(37) "Structure" means anything constructed or erected. <br />(38) "Unsafe" means a condition which is reasonably likely to do <br />harm to humans or property if not corrected or stopped. <br />(39) "Unfit for Human Habitation" means that conditions exist in <br />a dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming house or rooming unit <br />which violate or do not comply with one or more the minimum <br />standards established by this ordinance. <br />(40) "Vermin" means rodents, birds and insects which may be <br />destructive of real or personal property or injurious to <br />health. <br />(41) "Window area" means the area of the glazing of a window <br />through which light passes, including the area taken up by <br />the window pane dividers. <br />(42) "Yard" means all parts of a piece of property between <br />dwelling foundation and the property lines, as well as that <br />portion between of public property or right of way lying <br />between that piece of property and the street curb or <br />Pavement. <br />ARTICLE III - MINIMUM STANDARDS <br />3.1 COMPLIANCE REQUIRED. <br />All dwellings shall meet the standards set forth in this Housing <br />Code. No person shall lease any dwelling or dwelling unit which <br />does not comply with all of the minimum housing standards <br />