Section 9-201 - Definitions(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.(b)(1) "Dormitory" means a building or space in a building that: (i) is under joint occupancy and single management; and(ii) provides group sleeping accommodations:1. with or without meals, but without individual cooking facilities;2. for more than 16 individuals who are not members of the same family group; and3. in one room or in a series of closely associated rooms.(2) "Dormitory" includes a school dormitory, fraternity house, and military barracks.(c) "Dwelling unit" means a single unit that: (1) provides complete, independent living facilities for one or more individuals; and(2) contains permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation.(d)(1) "Hotel" means a building or group of buildings that: (i) is under the same management;(ii) contains more than 16 sleeping accommodations for hire; and(iii) is used primarily by transients who are lodged with or without meals.(2) "Hotel" includes an inn, motel, club, and apartment hotel.(e)(1) "Lodging or rooming house" means a building: (i) in which separate sleeping rooms are rented; and(ii) that provides sleeping accommodations:1. for 16 or fewer individuals;2. on either a transient or permanent basis; and3. with or without meals, but without individual cooking facilities.(2) "Lodging or rooming house" includes an inn, club, and bed and breakfast establishment.(f)(1) "Multifamily residential dwelling" means a building or part of a building that: (i) contains more than two dwelling units; and(ii) is not classified as a one or two family dwelling.(2) "Multifamily residential dwelling" does not include a town house.(g)(1) "Public water system" means a system that:(i) provides the public with piped water for human consumption; and(ii) has at least 15 service connections or regularly serves at least 25 individuals.(2) "Public water system" includes: (i) a collection, treatment, storage, or distribution facility that is under the control of the operator of the system and is used primarily in connection with the system; and(ii) a collection or pretreatment storage facility that is not under the control of the operator of the system and is used primarily in connection with the system.(h) "Sprinkler system" means a device that: (1) opens automatically by operation of a heat responsive releasing mechanism;(2) discharges water in a specific pattern over a designated area to extinguish or control fire; and(3) uses the same service water supply pipe to the dwelling unit that the public water system uses.(i) "Town house" means a single family dwelling unit that is constructed in a horizontal series of attached units with property lines separating the units.Amended by 2015 Md. Laws, Ch. 151,Sec. 1, eff. 5/12/2015.