Room off kitchen counts as bedroom?

[Paul Winka]

I'd like to get both opinions and some supporting regulations regarding this matter of bedroom count in a property. Of course someone can sleep in a room off the kitchen (or in the kitchen itself!), but that's not what I am getting at. It's more of if it's generally common and accepted, and if there is a regulation against it, to cite that.

Could a room off a kitchen count as a bedroom? 
Could the entrance room of a house be a bedroom and still have it count in the total # of bedrooms? 
Could a living room be "labeled" a bedroom to up the bedroom count, i.e. 4 bed / 2 bath / no living room as opposed to 3/2 with living room? 

@Bill Gulley had mentioned in another post that having a bedroom off the kitchen would violate the "no passing from one room to get to another rule". It makes for a weird, dysfunctional floor plan, I totally agree. 

Thanks for your input.

[Evan Polaski]

@Paul Winka, in city of Cincinnati, I forget if closet is needed, but I will assume it is.  More importantly, egress window with certain operable area requirements and a sill height of no more than 44" from finished floor.

In my specific village, add to the above minimum of 150 sq ft.

Finally, as others mentioned, legally having a bedroom and functionally having a bedroom can be vastly different. For instance, a lot of old houses in Cincinnati have "the basement toilet". Sometimes Zillow or even the MLS will bring in public records data, and will show houses as have 1.5 baths or 2.5, etc. But, the half bath it is counting is a random toilet in an unfinished basement, which would piss off potential buyers. Our first house had this, and we even put in the listing 1 bath, but the data from public sources said 1.5. We got a lot of feedback saying buyer wants 1/2 bath on main floor, not basement, even though we tried to be as open as possible.