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 Gulfport
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 4. HEALTH AND SANITATION
 Article IV. RAT CONTROL

§ 4-81. Definitions.  

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  • The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

    Business building shall mean any structure, whether public or private, that is adapted for occupancy for transaction of business, for rendering of professional service, for amusement, for the display, sale or storage of goods, wares, or merchandise, or for the performance of work or labor, including hotels, rooming houses, office buildings, public buildings, stores, theaters, markets, restaurants, grain elevators, abattoirs, warehouses, workshops, factories, and all outhouses, sheds, barns, and other structures on premises used for business purposes.

    Occupant shall mean the individual, partnership, or corporation that has the use of or occupies any business building or a part or fraction thereof whether the actual owner or tenant. In the case of vacant business buildings or any vacant portion of a business building, the owner, agent or other person having custody of the building shall have the responsibilities of an occupant of a building.

    Owner shall mean the actual owner of the business building, whether individual, partnership, or corporation, or the agent of the building, or other person having custody of the building or to whom rent is paid. In the case of business buildings leased with a clause in the lease specifying that the lessee is responsible for maintenance and repairs, the lessee will be considered in such cases as the owner for the purposes of this article.

    Rat harborage shall mean any condition which provides shelter or protection for rats, thus favoring their multiplication and continued existence in, under, or outside of a structure of any kind.

    Rat stoppage or ratproofing applies to a relatively inexpensive form of ratproofing to prevent the ingress of rats into business buildings from the exterior or from one (1) business building to another. It consists of the closing of all openings in the exterior walls, ground or first floors, basements, roofs and foundations, that may be reached by rats from the ground, by climbing or by burrowing, with material impervious to rat gnawing.

(Code 1963, § 14-40)

State law reference

"Rodenticide" defined, Miss. Code Ann. 1972, § 69-23-3(d).