Part 2 — Definitions

For purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply:

"Authorized county official" means for purposes of this article, the director of the Placer County environmental health services and designated representatives and/or the chief building official of Placer County and designated representatives.

"Board" means the board of supervisors of the county of Placer.

"Building" means a structure or part thereof.

"Building code" means the California Building Standards Code, Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Parts 2.5, 3, 4, 5 and 9, as adopted with local amendments into Chapter 15, Article 15.04 of the Placer County Code.

"Chief building official" means the chief building official of Placer County building services, a division of the community development resource agency, or designated representatives.

"Clerk" means the clerk of the board of supervisors, or his or her designated representative.

"Complaint" means notification by any person, lodged with the environmental health division of health and human services, of a violation or a suspected violation of the housing code or this article.

"County" means the county of Placer.

"County executive" means the county executive of the county of Placer, or his or her designated representative.

"Dangerous building" means any building or structure deemed to be dangerous under the provisions of Section 302 of the Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings as adopted by the board of supervisors.

"Day" means working day excluding weekends and holidays.

"Demolish" means to destroy a building and to remove all debris and waste materials from the lot on which the building stood.

"Department" means the county's Department of Health and Human Services.

"Director" means the director of the Placer County Environmental Health Services, a division of Health and Human Services, or his or her designated representatives.

"Displaced" means a tenant is displaced, within the meaning of this article, if the tenant is ordered to move out of a rented dwelling unit or structure by an order to vacate issued by the county.

"Dwelling" means any building or structure or part thereof used and occupied for human habitation or intended to be so used, including those which are rented or leased for any term or duration, type or tenure.

"Dwelling unit" means any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling and forming a single unit with the facilities which are used or intended to be used for living sleeping, cooking, or eating.

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"Electrical code" means the National Electrical Code as mandated by state of California and as locally adopted by the board of supervisors.

"Enforcement" means diligent effort to secure compliance or abatement, including review of plans and permit applications, response to complaints, citation of violations, and other administrative or judicial process. Except as otherwise provided in this article, "enforcement" may, but need not, include inspections of existing buildings on which no complaint or permit application has been filed, and effort to secure compliance as to such existing buildings.

"Environmental health" means the Environmental Health Division of Health and Human Services and the staff assigned thereto.

"Fire code" means the Uniform Fire Code as mandated by state laws and locally adopted by the board of supervisors.

"Hearing panel" means: a three-person panel appointed pursuant to Section 15.56.180(A).

"Housing code" means this article and includes the Uniform Housing Code as issued by the International Conference of Building Officials and the State Housing Law.

"Housing code enforcement fund" means the housing code enforcement fund established by this article.

"Landlord" means an owner, lessor, or sublessor (including any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other entity) who receives or is entitled to receive rent for the use of any dwelling, or the agent, representative, or successor of any of the foregoing.

"Mechanical code" means the Uniform Mechanical Code mandated by state of California and locally adopted by the board of supervisors.

"Nuisance" means a condition that exists in a rental unit or structure that causes the unit or structure to be declared substandard or dangerous as defined in the Uniform Housing Code, Uniform Code for Abatement of Dangerous Building, and/or State Housing Law and that has not been abated in a timely manner.

"Order to vacate" means a written notice served by an authorized county official on the owner and posted on the affected property declaring that, due to failure to repair or maintain, the dwelling or building shall be vacated.

"Occupant" means any person living, sleeping, cooking, or eating in, or having actual possession of a dwelling unit.

"Owner" means the owner of fee title, as shown on the last equalized assessment roll, to a dwelling unit, building or real property upon which the dwelling unit or building is situated. "Owner" may be an individual, trust, corporation, limited liability company or any other entity recognized under state law as authorized to hold title to real property.

"Parties in interest" means all persons, businesses, partnership, and corporations who have a mortgage or other interest of public record in a dwelling or dwelling unit, building, or property, who are in lawful possession thereof.

"Plumbing code" means the Uniform Plumbing Code mandated by state law and adopted locally by the board of supervisors.

"Program" means the housing code enforcement program created under this article.

"Proof of compliance" means documentation, on such form and in such manner as the director or chief building official may provide, that the deficiencies noted in the order or citation issued

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"Public record" means for purposes of this article deeds, mortgages and other instruments of record relating to land titles and recorded by the Placer County recorder or records maintained by the Placer County assessor or treasurer-tax collector.

"Rental dwelling unit" means the dwelling unit rented for any tenure, type or price.

"Responsible fire chief" means the county fire chief, or the chief of the fire protection district, special district, or any other municipal or public corporation or district which is authorized by law to provide fire protection and prevention services at issue.

"State Housing Law" means Division 13, Part 1.5 of the Health and Safety Code (commencing at Section 17920) and Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations, commencing at Division 1, Chapter 1, Subchapter 1.

"Substandard dwelling" shall have the same meaning as substandard building as set forth in the Health and Safety Code, Section 17920.3, or any successor statute and as modified by this article.

"Tenant" means the individual or individuals occupying a rental dwelling unit.

Untenantable rental dwelling unit. A rental dwelling unit shall be deemed untenantable for the purpose of this article, if it or the common area of the dwelling, structure, or premises in which it is located is the subject of a housing code citation or order pursuant to this article and substantially lacks any of the affirmative standard characteristics set forth in Civil Code Section 1941.1.

"Vacation date" means the date by which a tenant is required to vacate a rental dwelling unit, pursuant to an order by an authorized county official.

(Prior code § 25.03; Ord. 5202-B, 2002; Ord. 5790-B § 4, 2015; Ord. 6336-B, 8/19/2025)

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