Every dwelling and every factory building and every part thereof and the yard, court, passage and area or alley connected with the same shall be kept clean and free from any accumulation of dirt, filth, garbage or other matter. The owner, agent, lessee or occupant of any dwelling or factory building or part thereof shall thoroughly cleanse all the rooms, passages, stairs, floors, windows, doors, walls, ceilings and drains thereof as often as shall be required by the Board of Health or its officers and shall, when notified so to do, well and sufficiently whitewash or paint the walls and ceilings thereof.
Whenever it shall be decided by the Department of Health that any building or part thereof is unfit for human habitation by reason of its being infected with disease or vermin or by reason of its being in a condition dangerous to health or life or to be likely to cause sickness among the occupants, and notice of such decision shall have been affixed conspicuously on the building or any part thereof so decided to be unfit for human habitation, and personally served upon the owner, agent or lessee if the same can be found within the state, requiring all persons therein to vacate such building or part thereof for the reasons to be stated therein as aforesaid, such building or part thereof shall, within 10 days thereafter, be vacated or in case of special emergency, within such shorter time as in said notice may be specified.
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 47, Housing Code; and Ch. 123, Unfit Dwellings.
The owner, lessor or agent of any building or part thereof used in any degree for occupation for human beings, whether for business or dwelling purposes, shall keep the roofs, gutters and every part of the same and the side walls of such buildings so that the same shall not leak and shall cause all rainwater to be drained and conveyed from such roofs, gutters or side walls in such manner as to prevent the dripping of water upon the ground or upon any portion of the structure or in the yard adjacent thereto.
A. 
A building or portion of the building occupied as a dwelling shall be lighted and ventilated by means of at least one window in each room, said window opening into the outer air.
B. 
No person shall use any room for sleeping in any dwelling house, apartment house, hotel or other building which is overcrowded and where the cubic capacity for each adult occupying such building or room is less than 400 cubic feet, and for each child under 12 years of age, 250 cubic feet. Upon written order from the Board of Health, the number of occupants for such building or rooms so overcrowded shall be reduced in accordance with this section.[1]
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 14, Boardinghouses and Lodging Houses.
C. 
Every building used in any away for occupation for human beings, whether for business or dwelling purposes, shall be provided with water closets and urinal accommodations so that the same may be adequate and reasonably convenient for the use of the occupants of said building.
D. 
No person shall paper the walls or ceilings of any room in any dwelling house, tenement, hotel, apartment building or any building used for dwelling purposes without first having scraped or thoroughly removed all the old paper from the walls or other parts of said building.
It shall be the duty of the owner or contractor engaged in the construction or erection of any new building or other construction work to provide a sufficient number of water closets or privy vaults for the use of the persons employed on said work. Such water closets or privy vaults shall be placed at the commencement of the work and shall be continued until the completion of the same. Every such water closet or privy vault shall be kept and maintained at all times in a clean and sanitary condition.
Every owner or other person having charge of any building or portion of a building occupied as a tenement house, apartment house or dwelling house shall provide a means of plentiful supply of pure water for the use of the occupants thereof.
It shall be the duty of the owner of every structure used for dwelling or business purposes to keep the cellar free from accumulation of water. In case such accumulations occur, said owner shall immediately have such water pumped out and have the cause repaired or conditions altered so that further accumulations will be prevented.