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 to the potable
water supply.
E. Does not have facilities for the discharge of all household
liquid 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 reasons
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
for such reason. 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 145° F. shall at all times be supplied.
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 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 or 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.
Any person, firm or corporation violating or failing to comply with
any of the terms, conditions or provisions of this Article shall, upon conviction,
be liable to a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $500 for each violation.