[1-30-1950, § 1]
Every building or structure kept, used or maintained as, or
advertised as, or held out to the public to be a "boardinghouse" or
"lodginghouse" where sleeping accommodations are furnished for hire
to transient guests, whether with or without meals in which not more
than 10 persons not members of one family are accommodated for compensation
pursuant to some previous arrangement, and not to anyone who may apply
shall, for the purpose of the Chapter, be defined to be a "boardinghouse"
or "lodginghouse."
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1]
No house or building shall be used as a boardinghouse or lodginghouse,
and no house or building not now used for such purpose shall be converted
into, used or leased for a boardinghouse or lodginghouse unless, in
addition to the requirements contained in this Chapter, it conforms
to the regulations of the Building Code.[1]
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1]
Every boarding house or lodging house and every part thereof
shall be kept clean and free from any accumulation of dirt, filth,
garbage or other matter in or on the same, or in the yard, court,
passage, area or alley connected with or belonging to the same. The
owner, lessee, keeper, agent or manager of each or all of any such
house or part thereof shall thoroughly cleanse all the rooms, passages,
stairs, floors, windows, doors, walls, ceiling, privies, cesspools
and drains of the house or part of the house of which he or she is
the owner, keeper, lessee, agent or manager to the satisfaction of
the commissioner of health of the Village as often as he or she shall
be required by or in accordance with any regulation or order of such
commissioner of health.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1]
The cellar walls and ceilings of every boarding house or lodging
house shall be thoroughly whitewashed or painted a light color at
least once every year.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1]
Every boarding house or lodging house and every part thereof
shall be kept in good repair, and it shall be the duty of every person
owning or controlling any such house to equip with and maintain on
all doors, windows and other openings to the external air of such
buildings from April 15 to November 15 of each year suitable and adequate
screens and appliances so attached or arranged as to prevent the ingress
of flies to the interior of such buildings.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1]
The floor and other surface around or beneath any water closet
and any sink in every boarding house or lodging house shall be maintained
in good order and repair. Every part of such building and of every
yard, court, passage, area or alley connected with or belonging thereto
shall be at all times kept in a clean and wholesome condition. No
filth or other matter likely to cause disease or sickness shall be
placed in any part of such house, yard, court, passage, area or alley,
except in such parts thereof as may be specially provided for that
purpose, and no filth or matter likely to cause disease or sickness
shall be kept in or upon any such building, court, passage, area or
alley.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1]
No wallpaper shall be placed upon the walls or ceilings of any
boarding house or lodging house unless all old wallpaper shall first
have been removed therefrom, and such walls and ceilings thoroughly
cleaned.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1]
Every boarding house or lodging house shall have proper and
suitable conveniences or receptacles for receiving garbage and other
refuse matter. No such house or any portion thereof shall be used
as a place of storage for any combustible article, and any article
dangerous or detrimental to health.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1; Ord. 2001-2, 2-5-2001, § 1]
The owner or keeper of any boarding house or lodging house,
and the owner, agent of the owner, and the lessee of any such house
or part thereof shall, whenever any person in such house is sick of
fever or any infectious, pestilential or contagious disease, and such
sickness is known to the owner, keeper, agent or lessee, give immediate
notice thereof to the department of health and human services, and
to the commissioner of health, and thereupon such officer shall cause
the same to be inspected, and may, if further necessary, cause the
same to be immediately cleansed or disinfected at the expense of the
owner, in such manner as the commissioner of health may deem necessary
and effectual; and such officer may also cause the blankets, bedding
and bedclothes used by any such sick person to be thoroughly cleansed
and fumigated, and in extreme cases to be destroyed; but in any event
such room shall not be let to any person for at least 48 hours after
such fumigation or disinfection.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1]
All beds for the accommodation of guests in any boarding house
or lodging house shall be provided with sufficient supply of clean
bedding and with clean sheets, each of which shall be at least 81
inches wide and 99 inches long. All beds shall be provided with clean
sheets as often as the same shall be assigned to different persons,
and clean bedding and pillowcases shall be applied at all times when
occupied.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1]
Each boarding house or lodging house having a public washroom
shall keep therein at all times a sufficient supply of individual
clean towels in a place in sight of, and ease of access to, guests.
Also, at least two clean towels in each room, each day.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1]
All water closets and urinals in or used in connection with
any boarding house or lodging house shall be disinfected as often
as may be necessary to keep them in a sanitary condition, and shall
at all times be kept in such a clean and wholesome condition as not
to be offensive to the persons within the house, or to the public,
or be dangerous or detrimental to health.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1]
There shall be posted in each room of every boarding house or
lodging house, a printed copy of the act of the general assembly relating
to such buildings, to be furnished by the department of public health
of the state.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1; Ord. 2001-2, 2-5-2001, § 1]
Every agent or other person having control or management of,
or who collects or receives the rents of any boarding house or lodging
house, shall disclose the name of the owner thereof, or the name of
the person for whom such agent or other person is acting, upon application
being made therefor by any officer or employee of the department of
health and human services and the commissioner of buildings.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1]
Every boarding house or lodging house operated or maintained
in the Village shall be inspected under and by the authority of the
commissioner of health at least once every year.
Such inspection shall cover all matters pertaining to the sanitary
condition of the rooms, beds and bedding, including the ventilation
of all rooms or occupied space, and also of the rooms or space occupied
by servants or other employees, to ascertain the condition of such
rooms with respect to light, heat, ventilation and general sanitation,
such investigation to be sufficiently accurate and complete as to
convince the commissioner of health or his duly authorized representatives
that the buildings and premises and all parts thereof comply in all
respects to this Code or other ordinances of the Village and the laws
of the state pertaining to such establishments.
It shall be the duty of every person maintaining or operating
a boarding house or lodging house as hereinbefore defined to pay to
the Village Clerk annually a fee of $25 on account of such inspection.
All such fees shall be due on May 1 of each year, and shall
expire on April 30 of the succeeding year, and when issued for a period
of less than one year, the fee to be paid shall be a proportionate
part of the fee fixed by this section; provided, that no fee shall
be less than 1/2 of the annual fee.
Such fee shall be in addition to the license fee required by Section 29-11 of this Code.
[Ord. 1-30-1950, § 1; Ord. 2001-2, 2-5-2001, § 1]
Any person who shall violate, disobey, neglect or refuse to comply with, or resist any of the provisions of this chapter or who refuses to comply with any of the sanitary regulations of the department of health and human services concerning any of the matters or things mentioned in this chapter, shall be punished as provided in Section 13-3 of this Code.
