§ 8.56.090. Definitions.

A.

"Director" means the director community and senior services for the county of Los Angeles.

B.

"Dwelling unit" means a group of two or more rooms, one of which is a kitchen, designed for occupancy by one family for living and sleeping purposes.

C.

"Efficiency dwelling unit" means a room located within an apartment house or apartment hotel, used or intended to be used for residential purposes, which has a kitchen and living and sleeping quarters combined therein.

D.

"Guest room" means any habitable room except a kitchen, designed or used for occupancy by one or more persons and not in a dwelling unit.

E.

"Landlord" means rental property 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 residential rental unit.

F.

"Rent" means the consideration, including any bonus, benefits or gratuity, demanded or received by a landlord for or in connection with the use or occupancy of a rental unit, or the assignment of a lease for such a unit, including but not limited to moneys demanded or paid for parking, furnishings, housing services of any kind, subletting, cleaning fees, or security deposits.

G.

"Rental units" means all dwelling units, efficiency dwelling units, guest rooms and suites in the unincorporated areas of the county of Los Angeles, together with the land and buildings appurtenant thereto, and all housing services, privileges, furnishings and facilities supplied in connection with the use or occupancy thereof, including garage and parking facilities. This term shall also include mobile homes, whether rent is paid for the mobile home and the land upon which the mobile home is located, or rent is paid for the land alone. The term shall not include:

1.

Housing accommodations in hotels, motels, inns, tourist homes and boarding and rooming houses, provided that at such time as an accommodation has been occupied by one or more of the same tenants for 60 days or more, such accommodation shall become a rental unit subject to the provisions of this chapter.

2.

Housing accommodations in nonprofit cooperatives owned and controlled by a majority of the residents;

3.

Housing accommodations in any hospital, convent, monastery, extended medical-care facility, asylum, nonprofit home for the aged, or housing accommodations owned, operated or managed by an institution of higher education, a high school, or an elementary school for occupancy by its students;

4.

Housing accommodations which a government unit, agency or authority owns, operates or manages, or which are specifically exempted from county rent regulation by state or federal law or administrative regulation;

5.

Housing accommodations located in a structure for which a certificate of occupancy was first issued after July, 1979;

6.

Single-family dwellings.

H.

"Tenant" means a tenant, subtenant, lessee, sublessee, or any other person entitled to use or occupancy of a rental unit.

I.

"Suite" means a group of habitable rooms designated as a unit and occupied by only one family, but not including a kitchen or other facilities for the preparation of food, with entrances and exits which are common to all rooms comprising the suite.

(Ord. 95-0051 § 8, 1995: Ord. 84-0232 § 4 (part), 1984: Ord. 83-0090 § 1 (part), 1983.)