Village of Ridgewood, NJ Article II Single-Family, Two-Family and Multifamily Dwellings

[Amended 12-11-1984 by Ord. No. 1956; 3-26-1985 by Ord. No. 1978]

§ 175-2 Heating requirements.

A. It shall be the duty of every person who shall have contracted 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 or residence of one or more persons or as a business establishment where one or more persons are employed to so heat or to so furnish heat to every occupied portion of such building so that a minimum temperature of 68° F. is maintained therein at all times, provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to buildings or parts thereof used and occupied for trades, business or occupations where high or low temperatures area essential and unavoidable.

B. At no time, however, shall the minimum temperature be permitted to fall below 65° F. in any building, apartment, part of any building or apartment or other space wherein or wherefor there shall be any obligation to furnish heat. It shall be the duty of every person who shall have such obligation to so furnish such heat to so maintain the same in accordance with this and all the other sections of this article pertaining to heating.

[Amended 12-11-1984 by Ord. No. 1956]

§ 175-3 Responsibility to furnish heat.

For the purpose of the provisions of this article pertaining to heating, wherever any building or part thereof so concerned is heated by means of a furnace, boiler or other apparatus under the control of the owner, agent or lessor, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary with the tenant or occupant, such owner, agent or lessor shall be deemed to have contracted, undertaken or bound himself or herself to furnish heat in accordance with the provisions of this article pertaining to heating.

§ 175-4 Temperature and hours.

A. With respect to the obligation or duty to furnish heat to or in a building, apartment or portion thereof occupied as a home or place of residence, the term "at all times," as used in the provisions of this article pertaining to heating, shall mean that from October 1 to May 1 between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m., the person obliged to furnish heat shall maintain a minimum of 68° F. and from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. a minimum of 65° F. in every habitable room.

B. With respect to the obligation or duty to furnish heat to a building or portion thereof used and occupied as a business establishment, the term "at all times," as used in the provisions of this article pertaining to heating, shall mean the usual working hours established and maintained in the building or portion thereof so involved.

§ 175-5 Contract for heat.

The term "contracted," as used in the provisions of this article pertaining to heating, shall be taken to mean and include an obligation arising by a written, verbal or implied contract; and the presence of heating outlets, radiators, risers or returns in any hall or apartment or subdivision of a house shall be prima facie evidence of an implied contract.

§ 175-6 Hot water standards.

In all buildings occupied for residential purposes by two or more families and when the owner thereof shall have agreed to supply hot water, sufficient hot water of a temperature of at least 140° F. shall at all times be supplied.

§ 175-7 Refrigeration facilities.

In all buildings occupied as residence by two or more families and when the owner or lessor 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.[1]

[1] Editor's Note: Former Section 17-8, Construction requirements for vaults and cellars, etc., occupied separately as dwelling, which immediately followed this section, was deleted 10-13-1992 by Ord. No. 2375.

§ 175-8 Sanitary regulations.

A. 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 or by reason of lack of suitable sanitary facilities.

B. 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 are sufficiently lighted and ventilated and have available suitable sanitary facilities and are in all respects in that condition of cleanliness and wholesomeness required by this Code and by all applicable laws of this state.

C. 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 occupation 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 its inhabitants.

D. The owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of every building or structure, within the right or ability of either to remedy or prevent the same, shall not cause or allow any matter of thing to be done in or about any such building or structure dangerous or prejudicial to health.

§ 175-9 Separation of mercantile and living quarters.

No part of any building occupied in whole or in part for store or mercantile purposes shall be used for living or sleeping accommodations unless the same are separated by solid walls or partitions from the part occupied for store or mercantile purposes.