All of the provisions of this chapter, and all of the minimum standards and requirements of this chapter, shall be applicable to rooming houses and to every person who operates a rooming house or who occupies or lets to another for occupancy and any rooming unit in any rooming house, except as provided in the following divisions.
(A) Toilet, hand sink, and bath facilities. At least one toilet, sink basin, and bathtub or shower, properly connected to a potable water supply and sewer system or other sewage disposal system and in good working condition, shall be supplied for each four rooms within a rooming house wherever these facilities are shared. All such facilities shall be located within the residence building served and shall be directly accessible from a common hall or passageway and shall be not more than one story removed from any of the persons sharing the facilities. Every sink basin and bathtub or shower shall be supplied with hot and cold water at all times. The required facilities shall not be located in a cellar.
(B) Minimum floor area for sleeping purposes. Every room occupied for sleeping purposes by one occupant shall contain at least 70 square feet of floor area, and every room occupied for sleeping purposes by more than one occupant shall contain at least 50 square feet of floor area for every occupant 12 years of age and over and at least 35 square feet of floor area for each occupant under 12 years of age.
(C) Sanitary conditions. The operator of every rooming house shall be responsible for the sanitary maintenance of all walls, floors, and ceilings and for the sanitary maintenance of every other part of the rooming house. He or she shall be further responsible for the sanitary maintenance of the entire premises where the entire structure or building within which the rooming house is contained is leased or occupied by the operator.
(D) Sanitary facilities. Every toilet, flush urinal, sink basin, and bathtub or shower required by division (A) above shall be located within the rooming house and within a room or rooms which afford privacy, are separate from the habitable rooms, are accessible from a common hall and are accessible without going outside the rooming house or through any other room therein.
(E) Exits. Every rooming unit shall have safe, unobstructed means of egress leading to safe and open space at ground level, as required in accordance with the State Building Codes.
(Prior Code, § 1610)