A.
The operator of a motel, lodging house or boardinghouse
shall provide heat for the inhabited rooms from the first day of September
to the first day of June so that the temperature may be kept at 68° F.
between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. At no time, however, shall the minimum temperature
be permitted to fall below 50° 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 the obligation to furnish such heat to maintain the same in accordance
with this and all the other sections of this code.
B.
Each such establishment shall have for every six occupants
or lodgers at least one bathtub or shower and at least one toilet and washbasin
all readily available on the same floor.
C.
Every occupant shall be furnished with clean towels,
washcloths, soap and drinking glasses, each for individual use. Adequate provision
shall be made for furnishing bed linens, all of which shall be kept clean
and sanitary at all times.
D.
All rooms shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition.
All inhabited rooms shall be adequately lighted and properly ventilated with
one or more windows opening to the outside air. All outside doors and windows
shall be screened to exclude flies and mosquitoes from May 1 to November 1.
E.
All sleeping quarters shall be above grade and shall
have ceilings at least 7 1/2 feet high and at least 60 square feet of
floor space for each bed.
F.
All heating shall be furnished by a central heating system.
The use of any portable gas, electric or other such heater is prohibited,
as is the use of any light other than electrical.
G.
The keeping or use on the premises of any cleansing agents
containing hydrocyanic acid or other dangerous poisons is prohibited.
H.
Every lodging house, boardinghouse and motel shall be
open to inspection by the Health Officer or his representative in the manner
provided by law.
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.
A.
It shall be the duty of every person who shall contract,
undertake or agree or shall have contracted, undertaken or agreed, orally
or in writing, to heat or to furnish heat for any building within said Borough
occupied as a residence by two or more families to furnish sufficient heat
to any occupied part of such building to maintain at all times, between the
hours of 6:00 a.m. and 11:50 p.m., a minimum temperature of 70° F. and,
between 11:50 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., a minimum of 65° F. The supply of heat,
hereinabove required, shall be furnished for or to all buildings or parts
thereof used for business or living purposes from the first day of October
in each year to the first day of May of the succeeding year and on all other
days of the year when the outside temperature falls below 50º F., provided
that the requirements of this section shall not apply to buildings or parts
thereof used for any trade or business in which high or low temperatures are
essential. The term "contracted" as used in this section shall be construed
to mean and include any written or implied contract, lease or letting, and
the presence of any heating outlets, radiators, risers or returns in any hall,
room or other part of a building shall be prima facie evidence of an implied
contract. The presence of any central heating plant, furnace or boiler under
the control of the owner, lessee or person in charge of said building shall
also be prima facie evidence of an implied contract.
B.
In every residential or business building which has a central heating system, said system shall be kept in good repair and shall not have any leaks in the heater, furnace, boiler, smoke pipes, flues, pipe fittings, valves or other appurtenance of the heating system and shall be kept in such condition so that all habitable rooms can safely and adequately be heated at temperature levels described in Subsection A hereof.
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.
