The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:
“Clerk-treasurer” means the person elected to serve as the town clerk and the town fiscal officer, pursuant to I.C. 36-5-6, or any deputy or employee appointed by the clerk-treasurer with the approval of the town council, pursuant to I.C. 36-5-6-7 and Section 2.16.030 of the Speedway Municipal Code.
“Code” means any provision in the Speedway Municipal Code, as well as the Consolidated City and County Code, and the Health and Hospital Corporation Code, to the extent that such codes apply within the corporate boundaries of the town.
“Code enforcement officer” means an officer specifically designated by the town of Speedway to enforce the Speedway Municipal Code and the Consolidated City and County Code, to the extent that the Consolidated City and County Code applies within the corporate boundaries of the town.
“Consolidated City and County Code” means the revised code of the Consolidated City and County, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.
“Health and Hospital Corporation Code” means the revised code of the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, established pursuant to Indiana Code Section 16-22-8-6.
“Landlord” means an owner of rental housing units.
“Landlord license” means a license that is issued to a landlord, valid for one year, by the town manager of the town of Speedway upon evidence of completion of the landlord training program and payment of a landlord license fee.
“Landlord license application” means the application for a landlord license.
“Landlord license application fee” means a nonrefundable fee of twenty dollars due at the time an application is filed to obtain a landlord license.
“Landlord license fee” means a fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars required to obtain a landlord license or have a landlord license reinstated. Owners of five or less rental units shall be charged a fee of twenty-five dollars.
“Landlord training program” means the training program sponsored by the Marion County’s prosecutor’s office, or as otherwise designated by the town council.
“Manager” means a person employed by or on behalf of the owner to operate, maintains and conducts the business of the landlord.
“Nuisance” means a condition, conduct, or activity on real property that is: (1) injurious to health; (2) indecent; (3) offensive to the senses; or (4) an obstruction to the free use of property; so as essentially to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.
“Owner” means the legal title holder or holders of the realty, except: (1) if legal title is held by an Indiana land trust, “owner” means the beneficial owner or owners of the trust; and (2) if there is a purchaser or purchasers under a real estate installment sales contract, “owner” means the purchaser or purchasers; and (3) the manager if authorized to act on behalf of the owner for purposes of this chapter. The singular shall include the plural throughout.
“Person” means and includes an individual, corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization, company, or limited liability company.
“Property management action plan” means a plan agreed to by the town manager and the landlord to bring the rental unit into compliance with the applicable codes listed herein.
“Registered agent” means an agent of the owner or landlord who lives within Marion County, Indiana or has been designated as the registered agent.
“Rental unit” or “rental housing unit” means any apartment, house, duplex, condominium, or room in a rooming house that is not owner-occupied which is let or intended to be let to a person for compensation.
“Rental unit application” means the application which the landlord completes in order to obtain a rental unit permit for each rental unit owned by the landlord.
“Rental unit permit” means an annual permit issued by the town manager to a landlord following the filing of a permit application form and the appropriate inspections required by this chapter.
“Rental unit permit fee” means a fifteen-dollar annual fee paid by the landlord in conjunction with the rental unit application for each rental unit owned by the landlord.
“Rooming house” means any building used for living and sleeping in which a person or persons are housed with no individual kitchen facilities provided.
“State” means the state of Indiana.
“Tenant” means any person, other than the owner, entitled to occupy a rental unit under a lease agreement to the exclusion of others.
“Town manager” means the person employed by the town council to be the administrative head of the town pursuant to I.C. 36-5-5 and Section 2.08.110 of the Speedway Municipal Code or an agent of the town manager designated pursuant to Section 2.08.110 of the Speedway Municipal Code. (Ord. 1057 §1(part), 2006).