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   Jeff_Clarke_ | Feb 02, 2001 09:29pm | #1

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   John - Based on 1995 CABO you are correct and your instructor is wrong:

   (CABO 1995) - Family is an individual, two or more persons related by blood, marriage or law, or a group of not more than any five persons living together in a dwelling unit.
   i Servants having common housekeeping facilities with a family consisting of an individual, or two or more persons related by blood, marriage or law, are a part of the family for this code.
   (emphasis mine).

   Bud (as a friend) and Billy Bob (unknown) do not fit the definition of a family for the purposes of including the 'help' as servants under the italicized language above and thus one family. The exception to this (more information needed) might be if, in certain states, legal relationships existed between Bud and another person (is he the common law husband of Aunt Jane?) and Billy Bob ('married' to Bud in Vermont?) and another person - stretches the imagination and in this case, the definition, too far.

   Two families here IMO.

   Jeff

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   John_Kaur | Feb 02, 2001 09:43pm | #2

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   I have a question regarding the CABO definition of family. As a student in a building codes class I was faced with the following question,

   Mom, Dad, Aunt Jane, Bud (a friend), Billy Bob, Fred (the gardener) and Freda (the cook) live together. How many families?

   My answer was two, but the instructor says only one.

   Any help on interpreting this?

   Thanks.