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Commissioned security officers: Are officers who have successfully passed a state and national
<br />criminal history check and the thirty -hour training class provided by the Private Security Bureau of the
<br />Texas Department of Public Safety.
<br />Court: An open, unoccupied space, bounded on two (2) or more sides by the walls of the building. An
<br />inner court is a court entirely within the exterior walls of a building. All other courts are outer courts.
<br />Crime -free multi -housing: The CFMH program provides partnership between police, local property
<br />owners/managers, housing department and residents to foster a safe, healthy, crime -free community in
<br />rental housing. The program uses a unique three-phase approach that ensures resident -friendly
<br />techniques that will be applied to achieve crime prevention goals. Management training, security
<br />assessment and resident safety/crime watch make up the components. The crime -free program does not
<br />imply there is no crime in a designated area, but rather this is to warn that there can be serious
<br />consequences for any one affiliated with illegal/criminal activity.
<br />Drug related: Includes, but is not limited to, the manufacture, cultivation, importation into the state,
<br />transportation, possession, possession for sale, sale, furnishing, administering, giving away, providing a
<br />place to use, or fortification of a place involving any illegal or controlled drug, narcotic or drug
<br />paraphernalia.
<br />Dwelling: Any building or any portion thereof, which is not an apartment house, a lodging house or a
<br />hotel, as defined in this article, which contains one (1) or two (2) dwelling units or guest rooms, used,
<br />intended or designed to be built, used, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or which are
<br />occupied for living purposes.
<br />Dwelling unit: A suite of two (2) or more habitable rooms which are occupied or which are intended
<br />or designed to be occupied by one (1) family with facilities for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
<br />Existing (apartment) building: A building erected or one for which a legal building permit has been
<br />issued prior to the adoption of this article originally.
<br />Exit. A continuous and unobstructed means of egress to a public way, and shall include intervening
<br />doorways, corridors, ramps, stairways, smoke -proof enclosures, horizontal exits, exterior courts and
<br />yards.
<br />Family. An individual or two (2) or more persons related by blood or marriage, or a group of not more
<br />than five (5) persons (excluding servants), who need not be related by blood or marriage, living together
<br />in a dwelling unit.
<br />Grade (ground level): The average of the finished ground level at the center of all walls of a building.
<br />In case walls are parallel to and within five (5) feet of a sidewalk, the above ground level shall be
<br />measured from the sidewalk.
<br />Habitability: All apartment units, hotel and motel rooms and all buildings made available for
<br />residence must be fit for humans to live, and will meet all other building or health requirements to allow for
<br />sleeping, living, cooking or eating purposes, and will include appropriate connections for all necessary
<br />sanitary and mechanical facilities.
<br />Habitable room: Any room meeting the requirements of this article for sleeping, living, cooking or
<br />eating purposes excluding such enclosed places as closets, pantries, bath or toilet rooms, service rooms,
<br />connecting corridors, laundries, unfinished attics, foyers, storage spaces, cellars, utility rooms and similar
<br />spaces.
<br />Interior lot. A lot other than a corner lot.
<br />Kitchen: A room used or designed to be used for the preparation of food.
<br />Let or let for occupancy: To permit, provide or offer possession or occupancy of a dwelling unit,
<br />rooming unit, building, premises or structure by a person who is or is not the legal owner of record
<br />thereof, pursuant to a written or unwritten lease, agreement or license, or pursuant to recorded or
<br />unrecorded agreement of contract for the sale of land.
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