All of the provisions of this subchapter, and all of the minimum standard requirements of this subchapter, shall be applicable to rooming houses, and to every person who operates a rooming house, or who occupies or lets to another for occupancy any rooming unit or any rooming house, except as provided in the following divisions.
(A) Water closets, hand lavatory, and bath facilities. At least one water closet, lavatory basin, and bathtub or shower, properly connected to an approved water and sewer system and in good working condition, shall be supplied for each four rooms within a rooming house wherever the facilities are shared. All such facilities shall be located within the residence building served and shall be directly accessible from a common hall or passageway and shall not be more than one story removed from any of the persons sharing such facilities. Every lavatory basin and bathtub or shower shall be supplied with hot and cold water at all times. Such required facilities shall not be located in the cellar.
(B) Sanitary conditions. The owner or operator of every rooming house shall be responsible for the sanitary maintenance of all walls, floors, and ceilings, and for the sanitary maintenance of every other part of the building; and he or she shall be further responsible for the sanitary maintenance of the entire premises where the entire structure or building (within which the rooming house is contained) is leased or occupied by the operator.
(C) Sanitary facilities. Every water closet, flush urinal, lavatory basin, and bathtub or shower required by division (A) above shall be located within the rooming house and within a room or rooms which afford privacy and are separate from the habitable rooms, and which are accessible from a common hall and without going outside the rooming house or through any other room therein.
(Prior Code, § 9-2100) (Ord. passed 8-12-1976)