A. 
It shall be the duty of every person who shall have contracted or undertaken, or shall be otherwise bound or legally obligated to heat or to furnish heat for any building, part of any building, apartment, or space occupied as a home or place of residence by two or more families to so heat or to so furnish heat to every occupied portion of such building, part thereof, apartment, room or space, so that a minimum temperature of 68° F. is maintained therein at all times when the outside temperature is 60° F. or below.
B. 
For the purpose of this section, wherever any building or the part thereof so concerned, is heated by means of a furnace, a boiler or other apparatus under the control of the owner, lessor or their agent, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, the said owner or lessor shall be deemed to have contracted, undertaken or bound himself or herself to furnish heat in accordance with the provisions of this section.
C. 
With respect to the obligation or duty to furnish heat to or in a building, apartment or portion thereof occupied as a house or place of residence, the term "at all times" as used in this section shall mean the time between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.
D. 
The term "contract" as used in this section includes a written, verbal or implied contract.
In all buildings occupied for residential purposes by two or more families and when the owner thereof shall have agreed to supply hot water, reasonably sufficient hot water, at least at 145° F., shall at all times be supplied.
In all buildings occupied as residences by two or more families and when the owner thereof shall have agreed to supply refrigeration facilities, he shall be, and is hereby, required to supply and maintain such refrigeration facilities at all times and in such manner as may be necessary for the proper and wholesome preservation of foodstuffs, except where the failure to do so is caused by act of God or circumstances beyond the control of the owner.
A. 
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 be for 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 properly dampproof floor below the level of the floor and unless the same has 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 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.
A. 
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 with 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 proper and suitable conveniences or receptacles for receiving garbage and other refuse matter. No apartment or other building, nor any part thereof, shall be used as a place of storage for any article detrimental to health.
All places of business shall be equipped with proper and adequate toilet facilities, such as toilet, wash basin, with adequate hot and cold water supply.
All buildings erected or constructed in the Borough of Montvale and all buildings converted or to be converted in whole or in part shall conform to the following requirements:
A. 
The basement or cellar of any building shall be so constructed as to be reasonably dry, adequately ventilated, and the foundation walls and floor shall be rodent-proof.
B. 
In every dwelling unit containing two or more rooms, there shall be running water and at least one sink connected to the public sewer or to an approved sewage disposal system; there shall also be therein at least one wash basin, one water closet, 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.
C. 
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 free floor area and at least 100 cubic feet of air space for each water closet, and each urinal must be directly ventilated to outer air by means of window or ventilating duct.
When more than two persons occupy any dwelling unit, food shall not be prepared or cooked in any room used for sleeping purposes.
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.
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.
If a room in a residence building is overcrowded, the Health Officer shall order the number of persons sleeping or living in the room to be so reduced that there shall be not less than 480 cubic feet of air to each person over the age of 12 years and 300 cubic feet of air to each child under 12 years of age occupying such room.