§ 10-41. Definitions.

The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this article, shall have the following respective meanings for the purposes of this article, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

Close and secure or closing and securing means compliance with the provisions of this chapter regarding minimum standards for uninhabited or vacant buildings.

Dwelling means any residential or commercial building or structure, or part thereof, having been used or currently being used and occupied, or intended to be used or occupied for human habitation, however slight or transitory, and includes any other structures, outbuilding appurtenances belonging thereto or usually attached to or enjoyed as part of human habitation of the primary premises.

Habitation means the act of inhabiting by a human for any length of time, unrelated to the owners or parties in interest acting to preserve, maintain, repair or inspect the property.

Owner means record fee title owners having a legal or equitable interest in, owning, leasing, occupying, controlling, or possessing in any manner any lot or parcel of real property as reflected in the public records of Horry County.

Parties in interest means record fee title owners, beneficiaries of any trust holding title to any real estate, trustees, conservators, guardians, executors, administrators, individual(s), partnership(s), firm(s) or corporation(s) having a legal or equitable interest in, owning, leasing, occupying, controlling, or possessing in any manner any lot or parcel of real property as reflected in the public records of Horry County, specifically including rights acquired by note, mortgage, lien or other publicly recorded document that provides for the right of entry to preserve an asset.

Public officer means the building official, fire marshal, code officials or other officers who are authorized by ordinances adopted hereunder to exercise the powers prescribed by such ordinances and by this article, or any housing authority or any officer who is in charge of any department or branch of the government of the municipality or state relating to health, fire or building regulations or to other activities concerning dwellings in the municipality.

(Ord. No. 2013-8, 1-22-13)