(A) Scope. The provisions of this section shall govern the minimum conditions and standards for the light and ventilation of a rental building. All light and ventilation conditions shall comply with the requirements herein prescribed insofar as they are applicable.
(B) Responsibility. All rental buildings shall provide such light and ventilation in compliance with these requirements. A person shall not let to another for occupancy or use any premises which do not comply with the following requirements of this section.
(C) All rooms within rental units shall be provided with natural or artificial light sufficient in intensity and distribution to permit the safe use of the room.
(D) Every common hall and stairway in rental buildings, other than one and two family dwellings shall be lighted at all times with at least a 60-watt standard incandescent light bulb for each 200 feet of floor area or equivalent illumination, provided that the spacing between lights shall not be greater than 30 feet. Alternate means of lighting may be used so as to comply with these minimal lighting standards.
(E) For ventilation purposes, every habitable room or connecting habitable room, collectively referred to as “habitable area” shall have at least one operable window which can be easily opened and facing directly outdoors or to a court. Every bathroom and toilet room shall comply with the ventilation requirements for habitable rooms as required in § 158.42(E) except that a window shall not be required in such rooms equipped with a mechanical ventilation system. Air exhausted by a mechanical ventilation system shall discharge to the outdoors and shall not be recirculated.
(Ord. 14-2011, passed 4-11-11)