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: \. 'lJ ~ ground adjoining the building en all sides. 2-42 HABITABLE RCD:r1 means a room occupied by one or more persons for living, eating, or sleeping, and includes kitchens, serving apartments or individual. households, but does not include bathrooms, water closet compartments, laund- ries, serving and storage pantries, corridors, cellars and spaces that are not used frequently or during extended periods. 2-43 HEIGHT as applied to a building, means the vertical distance from grade to the highest finished roof surface in the case of flat roofs, or to a point at the average height of roof's having a pitch of more than one foot in 4~ ft. 2-44 HEIGHT of a building in stories does not include basements and cellars, except in school buildings of ordinary, non-combustible or frame construc- tion; the baseIll3nt or cellar shall be deemed a story when used for purposes of other than storage and heating. 2-45 HEIGHT as applied to a story, means the vertical distance from top to top of two successive tiers of floor beams or finished wood surfaces. 2-46 HEFEAFTER means after the time that this code becomes effective. 2-47 HERETOFOR means before the tiIoo that this code becomes effective. 2-48 HOLLOW MASONRY UNIT, means a masonry unit whose net cross sectional area in any plane parallel to the bearing surface is less than 15% of its gross cross sectional area measured in the same place. 2-49LIVE LOAD means all loads except dead loads. 2-50 LOT means a portion or parcel of land considered as a Wrl-t devoted tOD.a certain use or occupied b~r a building or a group of buildings that are united by common interest for use and the customary accessories and open spaces belonging to the same. 2-51 IWN. The main of any system of horizontal, vertical or continuous p1.p1.ng is that part of such system which receives the wastes, vent or back vents, from fixture outlets or traps, direct or through branch pipes. 2-52 NARQUEES means a permanent roofed structure attached to and supported only by the building and projecting over public property. 2-53 MUNICIPALITY as used in this code shall mean an incorporated 1rillage or a township. 2-54 NATURAL WATERWAY as mentioned in this code shall mean any natural passageway in the surface of the earth so situated and having such a topographical nature that surface water flows through it from other areas before eea.ching a final ponding area. The term shall also meaa to include any and all d~ainage structures that have been constructed or placed for the purpose of conducting water from one place to another. 2-55 OCCUPIED as applied to a building shall be construed as though followed by the words "or intended", arranged or designed to be occupied. -10-