Article IV. Minimum Standards for Basic
Equipment and Facilities.
Sec. 15.1-18. Minimum kitchen and bathroom equipment.
No owner shall occupy or 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:
(a) Every dwelling unit shall contain a kitchen sink in good
working condition and properly connected to a water and
sewerage system approved by the enforcing officer.
(b) Every dwelling unit (except as otherwise permitted under
subsection (c) of this section) shall contain a room, separate from
habitable rooms, affording privacy and equipped with a flush
water closet, a lavatory basin and bathtub or shower, all properly
connected to a water and sewerage system approved by the
enforcing officer.
(c) Every dwelling shall have supplied water-heating facilities
which are properly installed, are maintained in safe and good
working condition, and are capable of heating water to a
minimum temperature of one hundred twenty degrees
Fahrenheit. When hot water is provided by a landlord, the
minimum temperature of the water so furnished shall be one
hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit. (10-5-64; 6-19-67; 11-20-67;
3-3-69.)
Sec. 15.1-19. Minimum heating facilities.
Every dwelling shall have heating facilities which are properly
installed, and maintained in safe and good condition and are
capable of safely and adequately heating all habitable rooms,
bathrooms and water closet compartments in every dwelling unit
located therein to a temperature of at
least seventy degrees Fahrenheit at a distance of five feet
above floor level, at the center of the room, under ordinary
minimum winter conditions. All fuel burning heating facilities
shall be permanent installations attached to an approved
flue. No portable room heating units using liquid fuel shall be
permitted in any dwelling unit. (10-5-64; 6-19-67.)
Sec. 15.1-20. Electric service.
No owner shall occupy or let to another for occupancy any
dwelling unit for the purpose of living, sleeping, cooking or
eating therein which does not comply with the following requirements:
Each dwelling and each rooming unit shall be supplied with
electricity within such unit as follows:
1. Every habitable room shall contain at least two separate
floor or wall-type electric convenience outlets or one such
convenience outlet and one supplied ceiling-type electric light
fixture;
2. Every water closet compartment, bathroom, laundry
room, furnace room and public hall shall contain at least one
supplied ceiling or wall type electric light fixture; and
3. Every outlet and fixture shall be properly installed and
maintained in good and safe working condition. (10-5-64;
6-19-67; 11-20-67.)
