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(a) Cooking. It shall be unlawful for any person to cook or prepare food in any bathroom, toilet room water closet compartment, or any other portion of a residential building in which the cooking or preparation of food is detrimental to the health of the occupant or the proper sanitation of the building. Community kitchens are prohibited in one-family and two-family dwellings and apartment buildings. One in-residence manager's apartment in any hotel may contain a kitchen, provided that this kitchen shall conform to all the requirements of a kitchen in an apartment house, and provided further that the apartment itself shall conform in its entirety to all other requirements for a dwelling unit in an apartment house. See also Section 507 of this Code.
(b) Sleeping. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or permit another person to use any of the following portions of a building for sleeping purposes:
(1) A hallway, water closet or bath or shower compartment, slop sink room, or any room containing a gas appliance used or intended to be used for cooking purposes or containing an improperly vented gas appliance;
(2) Any other room or place which does not comply with the provisions of this Code for a sleeping room, or in which sleeping is dangerous, or prejudicial to life or health by reason of an overcrowded condition; a lack of light, windows, ventilation or drainage; fire hazard, dampness or offensive, obnoxious or poisonous odors in the room or place.
(c) Amusement Rooms. No amusement, entertainment, "rumpus," reception, public dining, or similar room in any residential building shall be used for sleeping purposes unless it meets all of the requirements of this Code for sleeping rooms and the applicable requirements of the Building Code.
(Added by Ord. 399-89, App. 11/6/89; amended by Ord. 161-92, App. 6/4/92; Ord. 256-07, App. 11/6/2007)