No person shall occupy as owner-occupant, or let to another for occupancy, any dwelling or dwelling unit for the purpose of living, sleeping, cooking or eating therein, which does not comply with the following requirements.
(A) There shall be a safe and potable supply of running water into each dwelling unit.
(B) Each dwelling unit shall contain a room which affords privacy to a person within the room, and is equipped with an inside flush water closet and lavatory basin. Every dwelling unit shall also contain a kitchen sink. Every dwelling unit shall contain a bathtub or shower installed in a room affording privacy. Every flush water closet shall be connected to cold water lines and an approved sewer or approved individual sewage system. Every kitchen sink, every lavatory basin, every bathtub and every shower shall be connected to hot and cold water lines, and to an approved sewer or approved individual sewage disposal unit. All plumbing fixtures and fittings shall be in good working condition. Sufficient water shall be piped to all plumbing fixtures for the proper operation of the fixtures.
(C) Every dwelling unit shall be furnished with water heating facilities capable of heating water to such temperature as to permit an adequate quantity of water to be drawn in each fixture at a temperature of not less than 120°F. Water heating facilities shall be properly connected to hot and cold water lines. If gas is used as a fuel, it shall be vented to the atmosphere.
(D) Every dwelling unit shall have a single-flush water closet, a single lavatory basin and a single bathtub or shower.
(E) Every dwelling unit shall be supplied with adequate garbage/rubbish storage facilities and garbage/rubbish disposal, the type and location of which shall be in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Building Commissioner. In the case of dwellings consisting of four or more dwelling units, rubbish storage facilities shall be supplied by the owner, unless the rental agreement provides otherwise. In the case of dwellings consisting of fewer than four units, the rubbish storage facilities shall be supplied by the occupants, unless the rental agreement provides otherwise.
(F) A safe, continuous and unobstructed means of egress shall be provided from the interior of a dwelling to the exterior of a street, a yard, court, or passageway leading to a public open area at grade. Every rental unit shall have access directly to the outside or to a common corridor, and every sleeping room shall have an approved direct means of egress to the outside. All doors in the required means of egress shall be readily openable from the inner side. Exits from multiple dwelling units shall not lead through other such units, or through toilet rooms or bathrooms.
(G) When service from a public or semi-public sewage and water system is not available or feasible, an individual system of water supply and sewage disposal may be considered adequate, provided it is installed in accordance with the requirements of the Board of Health. When an approved sewer is not available and where conditions are such as to prevent safe and sanitary subsurface disposal of waterborne sewage, then at the discretion of the Board of Health, certain variances in the requirements of this section may be permitted.
(H) All courts, yards or other areas on the premises of every dwelling shall be properly graded and drained.
(Ord. G-69-352, passed 3-7-1969; Ord. G-16-10, passed 10-3-2016)