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DEFINITIONS:

As used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases are defined as follows:

a.    City shall mean the city of Lynwood.

b.    Code shall mean the Lynwood Municipal Code, and all codes, regulations, and laws adopted and incorporated therein.

c.    Director shall refer to the city’s director of development, compliance and enforcement services department, interchangeably also known as the community development department, or his or her designee.

d.    Owner shall mean any person who owns one or more residential rental properties.

e.    Person means and includes any individual, partnership of any kind, corporation, limited liability company, association, joint venture or other organization or entity, however formed, as well as trustees, heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, or any combination of such persons. The terms person, owner, operator, and landlord may herein be used interchangeably.

f.    Residential rental property shall mean those properties with five (5) or more residential rental dwelling units, including, but not limited to, apartment buildings, townhouse dwellings, condominiums, boarding houses, lodging houses, rooming houses, guest rooms, single room occupancy units, small ownership units, hotel and motel units, and dormitories in the city of Lynwood, that are rented or leased, or are offered for rent or lease, to tenants for residential purposes on a nontransient basis (when one or more tenants reside on the property or rent or lease the property for thirty (30) consecutive days or longer). (Ord. #1702, §1)