No floor area in any dwelling unit or part thereof shall be considered as constituting “habitable floor area” and no owner, operator or agent shall occupy, maintain or lease or offer for rental or lease any dwelling or dwelling unit unless such floor area thereof meets at least the following minimum standards:
(a) Every dwelling unit shall contain at least 150 square feet of habitable floor area for the first occupant thereof and at least 100 additional square feet of habitable floor area for every additional occupant thereof, but in no case shall any dwelling unit contain less than the minimum number of square feet of habitable floor area as required by other provisions of this Code.
(b) In every dwelling unit, every room occupied for sleeping purposes by one occupant shall contain at least seventy square feet of floor space, and every room occupied for sleeping purposes by more than one occupant shall contain at least fifty square feet of floor space for each occupant thereof.
(c) No dwelling or dwelling unit containing two or more sleeping rooms shall have such room arrangements that access to a bathroom or water closet compartment intended for use by occupants of more than one sleeping room can occur only by going through another sleeping room; nor shall room arrangements be such that access to a sleeping room can occur only by going through another sleeping room or bathroom or water closet compartment. All bedrooms and bathrooms shall be provided with doors to provide privacy to the occupant(s) thereof.
(d) At least two-thirds of the floor area of every habitable room shall have a ceiling of at least seven feet six inches; and the floor area of that part of any room where the ceiling height is less than five feet shall not be considered as habitable floor area in computing the total habitable floor area of the room for the purpose of determining the maximum permissible occupancy thereof.
(e) No cellar space shall be used as a habitable room or dwelling unit unless it conforms to all of the following standards in addition to all other requirements to this Code for habitable rooms:
(1) The room shall have been, prior to the effective date of this Code, originally designed and constructed, or legally converted to use as a habitable room;
(2) The floors and walls are impervious to leakage or seepage of water into the habitable space and are insulated against dampness;
(3) The total window area required to be open in each room is equal to the minimum window area as required in Section 1306.17(a); and
(4) The total window area required to be open in each room is equal to the minimum required under Section 1306.17(b), except where there is supplied some other device affording adequate ventilation and approved by the Building Commissioner. (Ord. 68-97. Passed 4-20-
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