Every owner, lessor or agent of a building or
buildings occupied as residences and where such persons have agreed
to supply heat shall provide heat so that the temperature of the residence
shall always be kept at 68° F. or above, between October 1 and
the following May 15, inclusive, except as otherwise agreed to.
A.
No person shall rent, let, lease or allow to be occupied
for domestic purposes any building which shall not have a plentiful
supply of potable running water in each apartment.
B.
In all buildings occupied for residential purposes
and when the owner thereof shall have agreed to supply hot water,
sufficient hot water, at least 145° F., shall at all times be
supplied, unless otherwise agreed.
Every building used in any way for occupation
by human beings, whether for business or dwelling purposes, shall
be provided with a sufficient number of water closets and urinal accommodations.
It shall be lawful for this Board, by notice to the owner, to direct
the installation of such additional toilets when the interests of
the public health require such accommodations. There shall be at least
one water closet for each separate family.
A.
No person shall let or occupy or suffer to be occupied
separately as a dwelling any vault, cellar or underground room whatsoever,
unless every part thereof shall be at least seven feet in height,
measured from the floor to the ceiling thereof and unless the same
shall have at least three feet of its height above the surface of
the street or ground adjoining or nearest to the same and unless there
is an air space of not less than four inches over a property dampproof
floor below the level of the floor and unless the same have external
window openings of at least nine square feet each on at least two
sides and clear at all points in elevation of the sash frames, which
shall be so constructed that they may be opened for the purpose of
ventilation. This section shall not be construed to affect or apply
to any existing uses, unless such uses are otherwise detrimental to
the health of the occupants of said premises.
B.
No person having the right or power to prevent the
same shall knowingly cause or permit any person to sleep or remain
in any cellar or in any place dangerous or prejudicial to health by
reason of a want of ventilation or drainage or by reason of the presence
of any poisonous, noxious or offensive substance.
No owner, tenant, agent or lessee of any building
or any part thereof shall lease, let or hire out the same or any portion
thereof to be occupied by any person or allow the same to be occupied
by any person or allow the same to be occupied as a dwelling or lodging
place unless such building, or parts thereof so occupied have sufficient
daylight and ventilation and are in all respects in that condition
of cleanliness and wholesomeness required by this chapter and by all
applicable laws of this state.
A.
No owner nor other person in charge or control of
any tenement or any other building shall permit any building or part
thereof to be occupied or inhabited if the same is unfit for human
habitation by reason of its being infected within vermin or by reason
of its being in a condition dangerous to health or otherwise likely
to cause disease among the inhabitants.
B.
Whenever it shall be decided by the Board that any
building or part thereof is unfit for human habitation by reason of
its harboring disease or by reason of its being otherwise likely to
cause disease among the occupants and notice of such decision shall
have been affixed conspicuously on the building or any part thereof
and served upon the owner, occupant, agent or lessee, requiring all
persons therein to vacate from such building or part thereof, for
such reason as stated in the notice aforesaid, such building or part
thereof shall within 10 days thereafter be vacated or, in case of
a special emergency, within such shorter time as in said notice may
be specified. Every such notice shall be void if, within the time
limited by said notice or before the premises are so vacated, the
cause for the giving of such notice shall be so cured, so that the
condition theretofore existing and upon which said notice is based
shall no longer exist.
The occupant of any dwelling or apartment or
the person in charge and control of any other building in the Borough
shall provide covered, watertight containers for receiving garbage
and suitable receptacles for other refuse matter. No dwelling apartment
or other building nor any part thereof shall be used as a place of
storage for any article detrimental to health.
A.
All places of mercantile and factory-type businesses
shall be equipped with proper and adequate toilet facilities, such
as a toilet and washbasin, with adequate water supply. Where more
than five employees of different sexes are employed, separate bathroom
facilities shall be installed for each sex.
B.
All buildings hereafter erected or constructed in
the Borough of Riverdale and all buildings hereafter converted or
to be converted, in whole or in part, shall conform to the following
requirements:
(1)
The basement or cellar of any buildings shall be so
constructed as to be reasonably dry and adequately ventilated and
the foundation walls and floor shall be rodentproof.
(2)
In every dwelling unit containing two or more rooms,
there shall be running water and at least one sink connected to an
approved sewage disposal system; there shall also be therein at least
one washbasin, one water closet and one bathtub or shower stall, all
of which shall have a sufficient supply of hot and cold water and
be of a type approved by the Board.
(3)
Water closets, urinals, bathtubs and shower baths
must be located in rooms separated from habitable rooms by floor-to-ceiling
partitions and doors. Any rooms containing a water closet or urinal
must have at least 10 square feet of floor area and at least 100 cubic
feet of air space for each water closet and each urinal and must be
directly ventilated to outer air by means of window or ventilation
duct. Sufficient ventilating facilities shall be provided in such
rooms to ensure at least four complete changes of air per hour.
(4)
Every toilet room shall be lighted either by natural
or artificial light so that all portions of the room shall be completely
lighted at all times during occupancy.
C.
Where more than two persons occupy any dwelling unit,
food shall not be prepared or cooked in any room used for sleeping
purposes.
D.
No room shall be used for sleeping quarters unless
there is provided therein 480 cubic feet of space for each person
over the age of 12 years and 300 cubic feet of space for each child
under 12 years of age occupying such room.
E.
Every building and its appurtenant premises shall
at all times be kept clear and free from accumulation of dirt, filth,
garbage or other detrimental matter affecting health.
F.
The owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of every building
or structure, with the right or ability of either to remedy or prevent
the same, shall not cause any matter or thing to be done in or about
any such building or structure dangerous or prejudicial to health.
