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5 <br />(25) "Public Officer" means the officer or officers employed by <br />the County and designated by the County Manager as the <br />officer authorized to exercise the powers prescribed by <br />this ordinance. Any such officer shall be an appropriately <br />certified code enforcement official as defined and provided <br />in G.S. 153A- 351.1. <br />(26) "Premises" means any improved or unimproved lot or parcel <br />of land and its buildings and structures. <br />(27) "Rental Unit" means any dwelling unit rented or leased. <br />(28) "Residential" means all dwellings, structures, containing <br />dwelling and rooming units, accessory structures, and <br />yards. <br />(29) "Roomer" means a person who is provided with living or <br />sleeping quarters with a rooming dwelling. <br />(30) "Rooming house" shall mean.any dwelling, or that part of <br />any dwelling containing one or more rooming units, in which <br />space is let by the owner or operator to three or more <br />persons who are not related by blood, adoption, or marriage <br />to the owner or operator. <br />(31) "Rooming unit" means any room or group of rooms including <br />or not including a private bath forming a single habitable <br />unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, <br />but not for cooking and eating. <br />(32) "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 />(33) "Structure" means anything constructed or erected. <br />(34) Temporary Housing shall mean any tent, trailer or other <br />structure used for human shelter which is designed to be <br />transportable and which is not attached to the ground, to <br />another structure, or to any utilities system on the same <br />premises for more than thirty consecutive days. <br />(35) "Unsafe" means a condition which is reasonably likely to do <br />harm to humans or property if not corrected or stopped. <br />(36) "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 />(37) "Vermin" means rodents, birds and insects which may be <br />