(A) (1) Every dwelling unit shall have heating facilities which are capable of safely and adequately heating all habitable rooms, bathrooms and water closet compartments within its wall to a temperature of a least 70°F when the outside temperature is 0°F.
(2) 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 liquid fuels does not meet the requirements of this section and is prohibited.
(3) The owner may require that the occupant shall provide the required heating facilities at the occupant’s expense, but an agreement or requirement does not relieve the owner from responsibility for the presence of the heating equipment for the unit.
(B) Every owner, agent and manager of any apartment house, hotel, rooming house, flat or other building whatsoever who leases, rents or lets one or more dwelling units on terms, either express or implied, to furnish heat to the tenants or occupants thereof, shall, and is hereby directed to, maintain during the months of October, November, December, January, February, March, April and the first 15 days of May of each year sufficient heat in the rooms so occupied as living quarters to produce a temperature of not less than 70°F during the hours between 6:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. of each day, and shall maintain a temperature of not less than 60°F during the other hours of the day, except that when the outside temperature drops below 0°F and the heating plant is operating at its full capacity, a minimum inside temperature of 60°F shall be maintained at all times, and it shall be the duty of every janitor, firefighter or other employee who shall assume or engage in employment to operate the furnace or heating plant of any such apartment house, hotel, rooming house, flat or other building aforesaid to maintain the heat as aforesaid and as in this subchapter defined and set out.
(Ord. 885, passed 1-2-1974; Am. Ord. 1102, passed 7-15-1986) Penalty, see § 151.99