Occupant: Any person over one (1) year of age, including an owner or operator, living, sleeping,
cooking or eating in, or having actual possession of a dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming
unit, or sleeping room or hotel unit.
Operator: Any person who has charge, care or control of a building, or part thereof, in which
dwelling units, rooming units, sleeping rooms or hotel units are let.
Owner: The person who is the last owner of record or the fee owner or the contract purchaser
or the agent of the aforementioned person or member resident of a warrant-owned building
as defined by Minnesota Statutes, Section 273.124, subdivision 3.
Plumbing system: The plumbing system of a building includes the water supply distributing pipes; the
fixtures and fixture traps; the soil, waste and vent pipes; the building drain and
building sewer; the storm water drainage, with their devices and appurtenances; and
connections within the building and outside the building within the property line.
Premises: A platted lot or part thereof or unplatted lot or parcel of land or plot of land,
either occupied or unoccupied by any dwelling or nondwelling structure.
Professional: Whenever the words "professional state of maintenance and repair" are used in this
Code, they shall mean that such maintenance and repair shall be made in a reasonably
skillful manner.