[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Homestead 10-14-1974 as Ch. 58 of the 1974 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Homestead Borough Housing Code," and will be referred to in
this chapter as "this code."
There is hereby adopted by reference thereto
the Housing Code of the Allegheny County Health Department, being
Article VI of its Rules and Regulations entitled, "Housing and Rooming
Houses," as the same is constituted on the effective date of this
chapter.
This code provides regulations for establishing
minimum standards governing utilities and facilities and other physical
things and conditions essential to make dwellings safe, sanitary and
fit for human habitation; establishing minimum standards governing
the condition and maintenance of dwellings, dwelling units, rooming
houses and rooming units; fixing certain responsibilities and duties
of owners, operators and occupants of dwellings, dwelling units, rooming
houses and rooming units; requiring permits for the operation of rooming
houses; authorizing preliminary area surveys of dwellings; authorizing
the inspection of dwellings and the vacation or removal of dwellings
unfit for human habitation; and providing penalties.
Three copies of the Allegheny County Health
Department Housing Code shall be kept on file by the Borough Manager
for inspection by and use of the public and shall be marked with the
words "Borough of Homestead, Official Copy."
The enforcement of the provisions of this chapter
is hereby delegated and given to the Allegheny County Health Department.
