All minimum standards and requirements of this subchapter shall be applicable to rooming houses, and to every person who operates a rooming house, who occupies or lets to another for occupancy any rooming unit in any rooming house, and to bed and breakfast establishments, except as provided in the following divisions:
(A) Toilet, hand lavatory and bath facilities. At least one toilet, 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 these 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 a cellar or uninhabitable basement.
(B) Minimum floor areas. Every room occupied for sleeping purposes by one occupant shall have the minimum floor space as required by the state residential building codes.
(C) Sanitary conditions. The 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 rooming house. The operator 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.
(D) Sanitary facilities. Every toilet, flush urinal, lavatory basin and bathtub or shower required by division (A) above shall be located within the rooming house and within a room which afford privacy, shall be separate from the habitable rooms, shall be accessible from a common hall, and shall be accessible without going outside the rooming house or through any other room therein.
(Ord. passed 9-1-2021)