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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 1-305 “Day-care home: Adult” to “Electric substation: Outdoor”.">
  <section prefix="§" num="1-305" heading="“Day-care home: Adult” to “Electric substation: Outdoor”.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Day-care home: Adult.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Day-care home: Adult” means a dwelling in which a resident of the dwelling provides care for up to 8 elderly or functionally impaired adults who do not spend the night at the dwelling.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exclusion.">“Day-care home: Adult” does not include an adult day-care center.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Day-care home: Child.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Day-care home: Child” means a dwelling in which a resident of the dwelling provides care for up to 8 children, including the resident’s own.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exclusions.">“Day-care home: Child” does not include a child day-care center.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Dental clinic.">&lt;em&gt;See &lt;/em&gt;“Health-care clinic&lt;em&gt;”.&lt;/em&gt;</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Detached dwelling.">&lt;em&gt;See&lt;/em&gt; “Dwelling: Detached”.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Development (CBCA).">“Development”, as it applies to the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area, has the meaning stated in § 7-402 {“CBCA Overlay: Definitions”} of this Code.</para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Disturb (CBCA).">“Disturb”, as it applies to the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area, has the meaning stated in § 7-402 {“CBCA Overlay: Definitions”} of this Code.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Dormitory.">“Dormitory” means a structure that:<para num="(1)">is owned or operated by or for an educational institution or a hospital; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">provides group sleeping accommodations in 1 room or in a series of closely associated rooms for students not members of the same family.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Drive-through facility.">“Drive-through facility” means an establishment that provides products or services through an attendant, window, or automated machine to individuals occupying motor vehicles in a designated stacking space.</para>
    <para num="(i)" heading="Driveway.">“Driveway” means a connecting way that runs between a street and an off-street parking or drop-off area and is designed to permit a vehicle to leave the roadway at grade and enter entirely into the off-street area.</para>
    <para num="(j)" heading="Driving range.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Driving range” means an area that is equipped with distance markers, clubs, balls, and tees for practicing the striking of golf balls.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Driving range” includes an accessory snack bar and pro-shop.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(k)" heading="Dry storage marina.">&lt;em&gt;See &lt;/em&gt;“Marina: Dry storage”.</para>
    <para num="(l)" heading="Dwelling.">“Dwelling” means a building or part of a building used for residential occupancy.</para>
    <para num="(m)" heading="Dwelling: Caretaker’s.">“Dwelling: Caretaker’s” means a residence for an individual employed on a site to care for and protect individuals and property on the site or on adjacent sites.</para>
    <para num="(n)" heading="Dwelling: Detached.">“Dwelling: Detached” means a dwelling that contains a single dwelling unit and is not attached to any other dwelling.</para>
    <para num="(o)" heading="Dwelling: Live-Work.">“Dwelling: Live-Work” means a structure that combines a single dwelling unit with a non-residential use that:<para num="(1)">is permitted in the zoning district in which the structure is located and used predominantly by 1 or more of the unit’s residents; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">is an arts-related activity, such as painting, photography, sculpture, music, and film, and conducted predominantly by 1 or more of the unit’s residents.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(p)" heading="Dwelling: Multi-family.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Dwelling: Multi-family” means a dwelling that contains 2 or more dwelling units.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Dwelling: Multi-family” includes common facilities for residents, such as laundry rooms.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(q)" heading="Dwelling: Multi-family (Age-restricted).">&lt;em&gt;See &lt;/em&gt;“Age-restricted multi-family dwelling”.</para>
    <para num="(r)" heading="Dwelling: Rowhouse.">“Dwelling: Rowhouse” means 1 of 3 or more buildings, each of which contains a single dwelling unit used for residential occupancy, with each building having its own private entrance and being joined to the others by a party or shared wall.</para>
    <para num="(s)" heading="Dwelling: Semi-detached.">“Dwelling: Semi-detached” means 1 of 2 buildings, each of which contains a single dwelling unit used for residential occupancy, with each building having its own private entrance and being joined to the other by a party or shared wall and not otherwise attached to any other dwelling.</para>
    <para num="(t)" heading="Dwelling: Single-family.">“Dwelling: Single-family” means a dwelling that contains only 1 dwelling unit.</para>
    <para num="(u)" heading="Dwelling unit.">“Dwelling unit” means 1 or more rooms in a dwelling that:<para num="(1)">are used as living facilities for no more than 1 family; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">contain permanently installed bathroom and kitchen facilities reserved for the occupants of those rooms.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(v)" heading="Easement.">“Easement” means legal permission granted by a property owner to another for the use of the property for specific purposes, such as the construction of accessways, utilities, and roadways.</para>
    <para num="(w)" heading="Eave.">“Eave” means the projecting lower edges of a roof that overhang an exterior wall of a building.</para>
    <para num="(x)" heading="Educational facility: Commercial-vocational.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Educational facility: Commercial-vocational” means:<para num="(i)">a post-secondary school that teaches industrial, clerical, managerial, commercial, or artistic skills; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">a school conducted as a commercial enterprise, such as a driving school.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exclusions.">“Educational facility: Commercial-vocational” does not include a post-secondary educational facility.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(y)" heading="Educational facility: Post-secondary.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Educational facility: Post-secondary” means a post-secondary institution for higher learning, such as a university or college, that grants associate, bachelor, master, or doctoral degrees.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Educational facility: Post-secondary” includes post-secondary theological schools for training ministers, priests, rabbis, or other religious functionaries.</para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Exclusions.">“Educational facility: Post-secondary” does not include a commercial-vocational educational facility.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(z)" heading="Educational facility: Primary and secondary.">“Educational facility: Primary and secondary” means a public, private, or parochial school that offers instruction at any of the elementary through high school levels.</para>
    <para num="(aa)" heading="Electric substation.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="General.">“Electric substation” means a facility that is:<para num="(i)">owned, leased, or otherwise maintained by an electric company regulated by the Maryland Public Service Commission; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">primarily used to convert, switch, or terminate electric voltages at or above 4,000 volts.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Electric substation” includes generation facilities used to support the electric distribution system.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(bb)" heading="Electric substation: Indoor.">“Electric substation: Indoor” means an electric substation the major components of which are housed within a covered building.</para>
    <para num="(cc)" heading="Electric substation: Outdoor.">“Electric substation: Outdoor” means an electric substation that is neither an electric substation: enclosed nor an electric substation: indoor.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 17-015</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
