No owner or tenant shall rent to roomers or operate a rooming house, foster home or hotel unless the premises and rooms so used shall comply with the following requirements.
(a) The premises must be equipped with one complete bathroom with toilet, lavatory and bathtub or shower facilities for each six persons or fraction thereof living in the premises, including all roomers, employees and members of families of the owner or tenant.
(b) No room located in a cellar shall be used for roomers or for rooming houses, foster homes or hotel purposes.
(c) The means of egress to the outside of the premises from any room shall meet with the approval of the Building Inspector and shall at all times be kept clear of obstructions. Any door which must be used in connection with such means of egress shall be provided with a lock which can be opened from the inside without the use of a key.
(d) No hot plates or other facilities for cooking are permitted in any rooms rented to a roomer except with the specific approval of the Board of Zoning Appeals.
(e) The building shall be operated and maintained in complete compliance with all provisions of the Housing Code of the city.
(f) No means of ingress to a bathroom shall be through a room rented to a roomer. No means of egress to a room rented to a roomer shall be through any room rented to any other roomer.
(Ord. 5513, passed 11-6-1963; Ord. 5801, passed 2-21-1967)