Every rooming house, motel or hotel shall be equipped with at least one flush water closet, one lavatory basin and one bathtub or shower, properly connected to a water and sewer system approved by the authorized inspector and in good working condition. These facilities shall be supplied for each six persons or fraction thereof residing within a rooming house, motel or hotel, including members of the operator's family if they share the use of the facility. In any rooming house, motel or hotel, every room occupied for sleeping purposes, except those occupied by the operator's family members, shall contain one lavatory basin properly connected to a water and sewer system approved by the authorized inspector and in good working condition. In a rooming house, motel or hotel in which both sexes are accommodated, a minimum of two flush water closets and lavatory basins located in separate rooms which are conspicuously marked shall be required. In a rooming house, motel or hotel in which rooms are let only to males, flush urinals may be substituted for not more than one-half of the required number of water closets. All such facilities shall be so located within the rooming house, motel or hotel as to be accessible from a common hall to all persons sharing such facilities, afford privacy and separated from the habitable rooms. Every lavatory basin and bathtub or shower shall be supplied with hot water at all times. No such facilities shall be located in a basement except by written approval of the authorized inspector.
(Ord. 1895. Passed 1-25-78.)