(a) In proportioning the number of occupants of any room, the following minimum square feet of floor area per occupant shall be allowed: for school rooms for children, fifteen and for adults, twenty; for hospital rooms for children, fifty and for adults, seventy-five; for workshops, factories and offices for dayworkers, twenty-five and for night workers, forty.
(Ord. 44-49. Passed 7-18-49.)
(b) No single-family dwelling or suite of a two-family dwelling shall be constructed, remodeled or altered so as to contain, in the case of dwellings with basements, less than 1,100 square feet of finished livable floor space for the dwelling or suite.
(Ord. 233-94. Passed 10-3-94.)
(c) In computing the floor areas in both types of dwellings, with or without basements, the following shall be excluded: areas under outside walls, but not including inside partitions; areas in attached garages, breezeways, basements and utility rooms; and any floor area not heated by the main heating unit of the building. In both types of dwellings, the word "finished" means that the walls and ceilings shall be lathed and plastered or of dry wall construction, that they be provided with electric wiring and electric outlets and that the space be provided with heating facilities connected to the main heating unit.
(d) The utility room, in the case of dwellings without basements, is that room designated for the installation of the laundry equipment, the central heating unit equipment and the hot water heating equipment. When such equipment is not installed in the same room, the room where the laundry equipment is installed shall be designated as the utility room.
(Ord. 9-54. Passed 1-18-54.)
(e) No living apartment or dwelling shall be so overcrowded that there is less than seventy-five feet inside dimensions, outside of closets and bathrooms, for each individual occupying the apartment or dwelling. (Ord. 44-49. Passed 7-18-48.)