13-196-390 Residential buildings – Kitchen sink.

   Every family unit shall contain within its walls a kitchen sink.

(Prior code § 78-37)

13-196-400 Residential buildings – Heating facilities.

   Every family unit shall have heating facilities which are capable of safely and adequately heating all habitable rooms, bathrooms and water closet compartments within its walls to a temperature of at least 65 degrees Fahrenheit, when the outside temperature is ten degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Gas appliances designed primarily for cooking or water heating purposes shall not be considered as heating facilities within the meaning of this section. Portable heating equipment employing flame and the use of gasoline as a fuel does not meet the requirements of this section and is prohibited. The owner may require that the occupant shall provide the required heating facilities at the occupant's expense but such agreement or requirement does not relieve the owner from responsibility for the presence of such heating equipment in the family unit.

(Prior code § 78-38)

13-196-410 Residential buildings – Heat to be furnished.

   Every family unit or rooming unit to which heat is furnished from a heating plant used in common for the purpose of heating the various rooms of the dwelling shall be supplied with heat from September 15th of each year to June 1st of the succeeding year so that the occupants of a family unit or rooming unit may secure, without such undue restriction of ventilation as to interfere with proper sanitary conditions, a minimum temperature of 68 degrees at 8:30 a.m. and thereafter until 10:30 p.m. and 66 degrees at 10:30 p.m. and thereafter until 8:30 a.m. averaged throughout the family unit or rooming unit.

(Prior code § 78-39; Amend Coun. J. 2-25-88, p. 10733; Amend Coun. J. 3-9-05, p. 43526)

13-196-420 Residential buildings – Cold and hot water lines.

   Every kitchen sink, lavatory and bathtub or shower required shall be connected with hot and cold water lines. The hot water lines shall be connected with water heating facilities which are capable of heating water to such a temperature as to permit water to be drawn at every required outlet at a temperature of not less than 120 degrees Fahrenheit even when the heating facilities required by this Code are not in operation.

(Prior code § 78-40)

13-196-430 Residential buildings – Hot water to be furnished.

   Every family unit or rooming unit to which hot water is furnished from water heating facilities used in common shall be supplied with hot water throughout the year so that the occupants may draw water at every hot water outlet between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. of a minimum temperature of 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

(Prior code § 78-41)