A.Â
Housing exists within the City of Trenton, which because
of faulty design or construction, or failure to maintain in a proper
state of repair, or lack of proper sanitary facilities, or lack of
adequate lighting or ventilation, or inability to properly heat, or
improper management, or any combination of these factors, has become
or is becoming so dilapidated, so neglected, so overcrowded with occupants,
or so unsanitary as to jeopardize or be detrimental to the health,
safety, morals or welfare of the people of the City.
B.Â
Such substandard housing is a principal cause of deterioration
and blight in residential areas within the City of Trenton; and that
conditions existing in such blighted areas impair the efficient and
economical exercise of governmental functions and necessitate an excessive
and disproportionate expenditure of City funds for health, welfare,
public safety, fire protection and other public services.
C.Â
Persons owning residential property or residing within
the City of Trenton have certain responsibilities to maintain, improve
or repair their dwellings so as to assure that such dwellings are
safe, sanitary and decent and to eliminate and prevent the spread
of neighborhood blight and the resultant problems so created for the
City at large.
D.Â
There is hereby adopted for the City of Trenton a
Housing Code to establish minimum standards governing supplied utilities
and facilities and other physical things and conditions essential
to make dwellings safe, sanitary and fit for human habitation; to
establish minimum standards governing the condition and maintenance
of dwellings and dwelling units; to fix certain responsibilities and
duties of owners and occupants of dwellings; and to provide for administration,
enforcement and penalties for violations.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Housing Code of the City of Trenton, New Jersey."
