Every owner, lessor or agent of a building or buildings occupied as residences and where such persons have agreed to supply heat shall provide heat so that the temperature of the residence shall always be kept at 68° F. or above, between October 1 and the following May 15, inclusive, except as otherwise agreed to.
A. 
No person shall rent, let, lease or allow to be occupied for domestic purposes any building which shall not have a plentiful supply of potable running water in each apartment.
B. 
In all buildings occupied for residential purposes and when the owner thereof shall have agreed to supply hot water, sufficient hot water, at least 145° F., shall at all times be supplied, unless otherwise agreed.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 164, Water.
Every building used in any way for occupation by human beings, whether for business or dwelling purposes, shall be provided with a sufficient number of water closets and urinal accommodations. It shall be lawful for this Board, by notice to the owner, to direct the installation of such additional toilets when the interests of the public health require such accommodations. There shall be at least one water closet for each separate family.
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No person shall let or occupy or suffer to be occupied separately as a dwelling any vault, cellar or underground room whatsoever, unless every part thereof shall be at least seven feet in height, measured from the floor to the ceiling thereof and unless the same shall have at least three feet of its height above the surface of the street or ground adjoining or nearest to the same and unless there is an air space of not less than four inches over a property dampproof floor below the level of the floor and unless the same have external window openings of at least nine square feet each on at least two sides and clear at all points in elevation of the sash frames, which shall be so constructed that they may be opened for the purpose of ventilation. This section shall not be construed to affect or apply to any existing uses, unless such uses are otherwise detrimental to the health of the occupants of said premises.
B. 
No person having the right or power to prevent the same shall knowingly cause or permit any person to sleep or remain in any cellar or in any place dangerous or prejudicial to health by reason of a want of ventilation or drainage or by reason of the presence of any poisonous, noxious or offensive substance.
No owner, tenant, agent or lessee of any building or any part thereof shall lease, let or hire out the same or any portion thereof to be occupied by any person or allow the same to be occupied by any person or allow the same to be occupied as a dwelling or lodging place unless such building, or parts thereof so occupied have sufficient daylight and ventilation and are in all respects in that condition of cleanliness and wholesomeness required by this chapter and by all applicable laws of this state.
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No owner nor other person in charge or control of any tenement or any other building shall permit any building or part thereof to be occupied or inhabited if the same is unfit for human habitation by reason of its being infected within vermin or by reason of its being in a condition dangerous to health or otherwise likely to cause disease among the inhabitants.
B. 
Whenever it shall be decided by the Board that any building or part thereof is unfit for human habitation by reason of its harboring disease or by reason of its being otherwise likely to cause disease among the occupants and notice of such decision shall have been affixed conspicuously on the building or any part thereof and served upon the owner, occupant, agent or lessee, requiring all persons therein to vacate from such building or part thereof, for such reason as stated in the notice aforesaid, such building or part thereof shall within 10 days thereafter be vacated or, in case of a special emergency, within such shorter time as in said notice may be specified. Every such notice shall be void if, within the time limited by said notice or before the premises are so vacated, the cause for the giving of such notice shall be so cured, so that the condition theretofore existing and upon which said notice is based shall no longer exist.
The occupant of any dwelling or apartment or the person in charge and control of any other building in the Borough shall provide covered, watertight containers for receiving garbage and suitable receptacles for other refuse matter. No dwelling apartment or other building nor any part thereof shall be used as a place of storage for any article detrimental to health.
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All places of mercantile and factory-type businesses shall be equipped with proper and adequate toilet facilities, such as a toilet and washbasin, with adequate water supply. Where more than five employees of different sexes are employed, separate bathroom facilities shall be installed for each sex.
B. 
All buildings hereafter erected or constructed in the Borough of Riverdale and all buildings hereafter converted or to be converted, in whole or in part, shall conform to the following requirements:
(1) 
The basement or cellar of any buildings shall be so constructed as to be reasonably dry and adequately ventilated and the foundation walls and floor shall be rodentproof.
(2) 
In every dwelling unit containing two or more rooms, there shall be running water and at least one sink connected to an approved sewage disposal system; there shall also be therein at least one washbasin, one water closet and one bathtub or shower stall, all of which shall have a sufficient supply of hot and cold water and be of a type approved by the Board.
(3) 
Water closets, urinals, bathtubs and shower baths must be located in rooms separated from habitable rooms by floor-to-ceiling partitions and doors. Any rooms containing a water closet or urinal must have at least 10 square feet of floor area and at least 100 cubic feet of air space for each water closet and each urinal and must be directly ventilated to outer air by means of window or ventilation duct. Sufficient ventilating facilities shall be provided in such rooms to ensure at least four complete changes of air per hour.
(4) 
Every toilet room shall be lighted either by natural or artificial light so that all portions of the room shall be completely lighted at all times during occupancy.
C. 
Where more than two persons occupy any dwelling unit, food shall not be prepared or cooked in any room used for sleeping purposes.
D. 
No room shall be used for sleeping quarters unless there is provided therein 480 cubic feet of space for each person over the age of 12 years and 300 cubic feet of space for each child under 12 years of age occupying such room.
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Every building and its appurtenant premises shall at all times be kept clear and free from accumulation of dirt, filth, garbage or other detrimental matter affecting health.
F. 
The owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of every building or structure, with the right or ability of either to remedy or prevent the same, shall not cause any matter or thing to be done in or about any such building or structure dangerous or prejudicial to health.