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:
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 Health Department or a private supply approved by the Health
Officer;
C. Fails to provide a supply of hot water;
D. Does not have plumbing fixtures consisting of a kitchen
sink, bathtub or shower, lavatory and flush toilet connected the potable
water supply; and
E. Does not have facilities for the discharge of all
household liquid wastes into a public wastes into a public sewerage
system approved by the State Health Department or into a private sewerage
system approved by the Health Officer.
No owner, agent, lessor, lessee or other person
in charge or control of any building shall permit such building or
part thereof to be occupied or inhabited if the same is unfit for
human habitation by reason of its harboring disease or 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. Whenever it shall be determined by the Board that any
building or part thereof is unfit for human occupation for one of
such reason or by reason of leaky roofs or walls, missing plaster
on wall and ceiling coverings or plumbing in an unsafe and dilapidated
condition or floors in warped and uneven condition, notice of such
decision shall be affixed conspicuously on the building or any part
thereof and served personally or by mail upon the owner, agent, lessor
or lessee, if the same can be found in the state, requiring all persons
therein to vacate from 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 limit set by said notice
for the premises to be vacated the cause for the giving of such notice
has been eliminated.
When the owner, agent or lessor of a building,
dwelling unit or business establishment shall have agreed to supply
refrigeration facilities, he shall and is hereby required to supply
and maintain said refrigeration facilities at all times and in such
manner as may be necessary for the proper and wholesome preservation
of foodstuffs.
When the owner, agent or lessor of any building,
dwelling unit or business establishment is required to or shall have
agreed to supply hot water, sufficient water heated to at least 145º
F. shall at all times be supplied.
No person shall let or occupy or suffer to 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
is for at least three feet of its height above the surface of the
street or ground adjoining or nearest to the same and unless the same
has external window openings of at least nine square feet clear at
all points in elevation of the sash frame which shall be so constructed
that it or they may be opened for the purpose of ventilation.
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 lack of ventilation or drainage or the presence of any
poisonous, noxious or offensive substance or a lack of suitable facilities.
No owner, agent, tenant 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 all applicable
laws of this state.
The owner, agent or other person in charge and
control of any building or dwelling unit shall provide watertight
and covered receptacles for receiving garbage and other refuse.