(a) General. All spaces or rooms shall be provided sufficient light so as not to endanger health and safety.
(b) Habitable Rooms. Every habitable room shall have at least one window of approved size facing directly to the outdoors or to a court. The minimum total window area, measured between stops, for every habitable room shall be eight percent (8%) of the floor area of such room, except in kitchens when artificial light may be provided in accordance with the provisions of the Building Code. Whenever walls or other portions of a structure face a window of any room and such obstructions are located less than three feet from the window and extend to a level above that of the ceiling of the room, such a window shall not be deemed to face directly to the outdoors nor to a court and shall not be included as contributing to the required minimum total window area for the room.
(c) Common Halls and Stairways. Every common hall and stairway in every building other than one-family dwellings, shall be adequately lighted at all times with an illumination of at least a sixty watt light bulb. Such illumination shall be provided throughout the normally traveled stairs and passageways.
(d) Other Spaces. All other spaces shall be provided with natural or artificial light of sufficient intensity and so distributed as to permit the maintenance of sanitary conditions, and the safe use of the space and the appliances, equipment and fixtures.
(Ord. 41-1980. Passed 9-4-80.)