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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.)