[Amended 12-12-1990]
A. 
In all buildings designed to be occupied or occupied as residences by three or more families, when the owners have agreed to supply heat, from October 1 of each year to the next succeeding May 1, every unit of dwelling space and every habitable room therein shall be maintained at least at 68° F. whenever the outside temperature falls below 55° F. during daytime hours from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. At times other than those specified, interiors of units of dwelling space shall be maintained at least 55° F. whenever the outside temperature falls below 40° F.
B. 
In meeting the aforesaid standards, the owner shall not be responsible for heat loss and the consequent drop in the interior temperature arising out of action by the occupants in leaving windows or doors open to the exterior of the building. The owner shall be obligated to supply required fuel or energy and maintain the heating system in good operating condition so that it can supply heat as required herein notwithstanding any contractual provision seeking to delegate or shift responsibility to the occupant or third person, except that the owner shall not be required to supply fuel or energy for heating purposes to any unit where the occupant thereof agrees in writing to supply heat to his own unit of dwelling space and the said unit is served by its own exclusive heating equipment for which the source of heat can be separately computed and billed.
C. 
Every person who shall have contracted or undertaken, or shall be bound to heat, or to furnish heat for any building, or portion thereof, occupied as a home or place of residence of one or more persons or as a business establishment where one or more persons are employed, shall heat or furnish such heat for every occupied room in such building, or portion thereof, so that a minimum temperature of 68° F. shall be maintained therein between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. in any building or portion thereof occupied as a home or place of residence and during the usual working hours established and maintained in a building or portion thereof occupied as a business establishment, between the dates of October 1 and May 1.
A. 
The owner, agent or other person in charge of any building, tenement or apartment house occupied by three or more families shall provide adequate and proper janitorial service at all times, for the purpose of keeping the premises in a sanitary condition.
[Amended 12-12-1990]
B. 
No owner, tenant, lessee or person in charge of any building, house, store, room or place shall maintain the same or permit the same, or any portion thereof, to be maintained in any state of uncleanliness or filthiness or in an unsanitary condition.
[Amended 12-12-1990]
No tenant or occupant of any flat or apartment in any house occupied by three or more families, and no agent, servant or employee of such tenant or occupant, shall use any window, dumbwaiter, shaft, fire escape or porch of such house for the purpose of discharging dust, by shaking or otherwise, from clothes, rugs or other floor coverings, brooms, mops, rags or other cleaning implements or material.
No house, apartment, rooms or building shall be let, leased or occupied by human beings which is infested with rats, mice or vermin. The owner, lessor, agent or occupant of any such place, upon notice from the Board, shall immediately proceed to rid said place of said rats, mice or vermin by any reasonable and safe means approved by the Board.
[Amended 9-6-1972]
Every owner, tenant or occupant of any dwelling house or place of business shall cause all garbage, refuse, swill, unwanted materials and offal to be removed from the premises at least twice each week, and more often if so ordered by the Board of Health.