For the purpose of this chapter, the terms used herein are defined as
follows:
ENFORCING OFFICIAL
The Health Officer or other official authorized by the Board of Health
to enforce this chapter.
PERSON
An individual, firm, corporation, association, society or partnership
and their agents or employees.
It shall be unlawful for the owner or owners who have agreed to supply
heat to any building designed to be occupied or occupied as a residence by
more than two families to fail to supply heat from the first day of October
in each year to the first day of May of the succeeding year in such manner
that the temperature of said building where one or more persons reside shall
always be kept at 68° F. or above between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00
p.m.
It shall be unlawful for any person to rent, lease or otherwise permit
the occupancy of any building as a residence or for any person to reside in
any building as its owner, which building:
A. Is not adequately and properly ventilated.
B. Fails to provide potable water at sufficient pressure
and quantity for each family unit from a public supply approved by the State
Department of Health or a private supply approved by the enforcing official.
C. Does not have plumbing fixtures, consisting of a kitchen
sink, bathtub or shower, lavatory and flush toilet, connected to the potable
water supply.
D. Does not have facilities for the discharge of all household
liquid wastes into a public sewerage system approved by the State Department
of Health or into a private sewerage system approved by the enforcing official.
The Board of Health may institute an action at law to recover costs incurred by it in the removal or abatement of any nuisance as declared by §
221-2 of this chapter from any person who shall have caused or allowed such nuisance to exist or from any owner, tenant or occupant of premises who, after notice and notification as herein provided, shall fail to remove and abate the same within the time specified in such notice.
The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced by the Board of Health
or its enforcing official.
Any person who violates or neglects to comply with any provision of
this chapter established herein or notice issued pursuant thereto shall, upon
conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than $2 nor more than
$500 for each violation.