§ 17-23. Minimum standards for basic equipment and facilities.

No person shall let to another for occupancy, any dwelling or dwelling unit, for the purpose of living, sleeping, cooking, or eating therein which does not comply with the following requirements:

(1)

Every dwelling unit, except rooming houses and rooming units, shall contain not less than a kitchen sink, lavatory, tub or shower, and water closet, all in good working condition. Sink, lavatory, tub or shower shall be supplied with adequate hot and cold water.

(2)

Every dwelling unit and every rooming house, except rooming units, shall contain a room which affords privacy to a person within said room and which is equipped with a flush water closet and a lavatory basin in good working condition and properly connected to an approved water system and sewer system or an approved septic tank installation including an approved absorption bed. No privy shall be constructed or continued in operation after August 16, 1963.

(3)

Every dwelling unit and every rooming house, except rooming units, shall contain a room which affords privacy to a person within said room and which is equipped with a bathtub or shower in good working condition and properly connected to an approved water system and sewer system or an approved septic tank installation including an approved absorption bed.

(4)

Every kitchen sink, lavatory basin, and bathtub or shower required under the provisions of this section shall be properly connected with both hot and cold water lines.

(5)

Every dwelling shall have water heating facilities which are properly installed, maintained in safe and good working condition, and properly connected with the hot water lines required under the provisions of subsection (4) of this section and which are capable of heating water to such a temperature as to permit an adequate amount of water to be drawn at every required kitchen sink, lavatory basin, bathtub or shower.

(6)

Every occupied dwelling unit except rooming houses and rooming units, shall be provided with an installed nonportable cooking facility which shall not be capable of being carried easily by one (1) person, and shall have at least two (2) top burners. Vacant dwelling units shall be provided with utility connections for such facility.

(7)

Every dwelling unit shall have adequate garbage disposal facilities or garbage storage containers.

(8)

Every dwelling and dwelling unit shall have and maintain the means of egress which conform to the Building Code requirements in effect when the building was constructed. The Minimum Housing Enforcement Officer or subordinate enforcement officers shall immediately report any presumed violation pertaining to means of egress to the Building Official.

(9)

Every dwelling and dwelling unit which is let or intended to be let for occupancy shall have adequate space heating facilities which are properly installed and maintained in safe and good working condition. The Minimum Housing Enforcement Officer or subordinate enforcement officers shall immediately report to the Building Official any presumed violation pertaining to space heating facilities as contained in this section. Adequate heating facilities are hereby defined as follows:

(a)

Permanent heating equipment is defined as heating equipment properly connected to a flue or vent or, if electric, properly installed and permanently connected to an adequately wired and sized branch circuit.

(b)

Oil heaters, gas heaters, and wood-stoves must be connected to a properly installed vent.

(c)

Electric heaters will be of a type readily fixed into position and must be properly installed and permanently connected to an adequately wired and sized branch-circuit.

(d)

Any portable heating devices approved by a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL), or a properly installed fireplace may be used as an accessory heating unit.

(e)

Accessory heating units will be deemed to be supplementary to the permanent-heating equipment.

(f)

The use of unsafe heaters or cooking stoves and the use of cooking stoves, including ovens, for heating purposes is hereby prohibited.

(Ord. No. 63-30, § 2.01, 7-16-63; Ord. No. 67-14, §§ 1—3, 3-7-67; Ord. No. 67-66, §§ 1—3, 9-6-67; Ord. No. 68-78, § 1, 12-17-68; Ord. No. 71-24, § 1, 3-4-71; Ord. No. 71-52, § 4, 6-15-71; Ord. No. 74-44, § 2, 6-18-74; Ord. No. 18-18, § 1, 2-6-18)