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DRAFT • 7/24/95 SECTION 1007 - HOUSING MAINTENANCE ORDINANCE 1007.00 - PURPOSE AND SCOPE 1. Purpose - The purpose of this ordinance is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare by regulating the occupancy and maintenance of all residential rental buildings and structures within the City of Elk River. 2. Scope - The provisions of this code shall apply to all buildings or portions thereof used, or designed, or intended to be used, for rental residential purposes. This ordinance does not apply to owner occupied single family homes. Where any building or portion thereof is used or intended to be used as a combination apartment house-hotel, the provisions of this ordinance shall apply to the separate portions as if they were separate buildings Every rooming house or lodging house shall comply with all the • requirements of this Code for dwellings. A. Additions, Alterations, or Rex~airs - For additions, alterations, or repairs, see the Building Code. B. Relocation - Buildings or structures moved into or within this jurisdiction shall comply with the requirements in the City Code of Ordinances and the Building Code for new buildings and structures. C. Continuation of Use - Dwellings in existence at the time of the adoption of this ordinance may have their existing use or occupancy continued, if such use or occupancy was legal at the time of the adoption of this ordinance, providing such continued use is not dangerous to life, health, property, or public welfare. 1. Definitions - For the purpose of this ordinance, certain terms, phrases, words and their derivatives shall be construed as specified in either this Section or as specified in the Building Code and elsewhere in the City Code of Ordinances. Whenever the words "dwelling", "dwelling unit", "premises", or "structure" are • used in this ordinance, they shall be construed as though they were followed by the words "or any part thereof." Words in the 1.