[R.O. 2007 §16-66; Ord. No. 3761 §9, 4-6-1970]
Every dwelling unit shall have heating facilities which are
capable of safely and adequately heating all habitable rooms, bathrooms
and water closet compartments within its wall to a temperature of
at least seventy degrees Fahrenheit (70°F) when the outside temperature
is zero degrees Fahrenheit (0°F). The owner may require that the
occupant shall provide the required heating facilities at the occupant's
expense but such agreement or requirement does not relieve the owner
from responsibility for the presence of such heating equipment for
the unit.
[R.O. 2007 §16-67; Ord. No. 3761 §9, 4-6-1970]
A. The following appliances and equipment shall not be considered to be in compliance with the provisions of this Part 4 of Article
II of Chapter
515 of this Code, and the use thereof within this City is hereby prohibited:
1. Gas appliances designed primarily for cooking or water-heating purposes.
2. Portable heating equipment employing flame and the use of liquid
fuels.
[R.O. 2007 §16-68; Ord. No. 3761 §9, 4-6-1970]
Every owner, agent and manager of any apartment house, hotel, rooming house, flat or other building whatsoever who leases, rents or lets one (1) or more dwelling units on terms, either express or implied, to furnish heat to the tenants or occupants thereof shall and is hereby directed to maintain during the months of October, November, December, January, February, March, April and the first fifteen (15) days of May of each year sufficient heat in the rooms so occupied as living quarters to produce a temperature of not less than seventy degrees Fahrenheit (70°F) during the hours between 6:30 A.M. and 10:30 P.M. of each day and shall maintain a temperature of not less than sixty degrees Fahrenheit (60°F) during the other hours of the day, except that when the outside temperature drops below zero degrees Fahrenheit (0°F) and the heating plant is operating at its full capacity, a minimum inside temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit (60°F) shall be maintained at all times. It shall be the duty of every janitor, fireman or other employee who shall assume or engage in employment to operate the furnace or heating plant of any such apartment house, hotel, rooming house, flat or other building aforesaid to maintain such heat as aforesaid and as in this Part 4 of Article
II of Chapter
515 of this Code, defined and set out.
[R.O. 2007 §16-69; Ord. No. 3761 §9.1, 4-6-1970]
Every dwelling unit shall have supplied water-heating facilities
which are properly installed, are maintained in safe and good working
condition, are properly connected with the hot water lines required
under the provisions of this Chapter and are capable of heating water
to such a temperature as to permit an adequate amount of water to
be drawn at every required kitchen sink, lavatory basin, bathtub or
shower at a temperature of not less than one hundred twenty degrees
Fahrenheit (120°F). Such supplied water-heating facilities shall
be capable of meeting the requirements of this Section when the dwelling
or dwelling unit heating facilities required under the provisions
of this Chapter are not in operation.
[R.O. 2007 §16-70; Ord. No. 3761 §9.1, 4-6-1970]
Every owner, agent and manager of any apartment house, hotel,
rooming house, flat or other building whatsoever who leases, rents
or lets one (1) or more dwelling units on terms, either expressed
or implied, to furnish hot water to the tenants or occupants thereof
shall and is hereby directed to provide an adequate amount of water
at all times at every required kitchen sink, lavatory basin, bathtub
or shower at a temperature of not less than one hundred twenty degrees
Fahrenheit (120°F).