Vt. Residential Rental Housing Health & Safety Code (adopted under 18 V.S.A. ch. 172 / 20 V.S.A. ch. 172)

4 - Definitions
4.1 “Common Space” means all interior passageways, hallways, foyers, stairways,
basements, and other rooms in a dwelling or rooming house used or intended
for use by the occupants of more than one dwelling unit or rooming unit.
4.2 “Dwelling” means a rented building or structure, excluding tents or similar
structures used for the express purpose of camping, that is wholly or partly used
or intended to be used as a primary residence for living or sleeping by human
inhabitants. This includes rented mobile homes and “housing provided as a
benefit of farm employment” as defined in 9 V.S.A. § 4469a (a)(3).
4.3 “Dwelling Unit” means a room or group of rooms within a dwelling, or any
dwelling forming a single habitable unit used or intended for use for living,
sleeping, cooking, and eating.
4.4 “Food Residual or Food Scrap” means source separated and uncontaminated
material that is derived from processing or discarding of food and that is
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 recyclable, in a manner consistent with 10 V.S.A. § 6605k. Food residual may
include pre-consumer and post-consumer food scraps. "Food residual" does not
mean meat and meat-related products when the food residuals are composted
by a resident on site.
4.5 “Habitable Room” means every room or enclosed floor space, used or intended
to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, or eating purposes excluding bathrooms,
toilet compartments, closets, halls, storage or utility spaces and similar areas.
4.6 “Immediate Family” means a person’s parents, spouse, domestic partner,
children, and siblings.
4.7 “Infestation” means the presence of any pest or bedbug that creates a health
hazard or other risk to the preservation of public health.
4.8 “Local board of health” means the select board or city council, together with the