Ordinance Establising Minumum Standards for Habitable Buildings and Premises

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unless existing conditions or practices at his rooming house are corrected, may request and shall be granted a hearing on the matter before the Board of Public Works and Safety, under the procedure provided by this ordinance; provided that if no petition for such hear- ing is filed within 72 hours following the day on which such permit was suspended, such permit shall be deemed to have been automatically revoked. Section 22. At least one flush water closet, lavatory basin, and bathtub or shower, properly connected to a water and sewer system approved by the building commissioner and in good working condition, shall be supplied for each eight persons or fraction thereof residing within a rooming house, including members of the operator's family wherever they share the use of the said facil- ities; provided that in a rooming house where rooms are let only to males, flush urinals may be substituted for not more than one -half the required numb.�r of water closets. All such facilities shall be so located within the ci <.ieiling as to be reasonably accessible from a comrmm Tali or pas sagcway to al'. persons sharing such facilities. Every lavatory basin and bathtub or shower shall be supplied with hot water at all times. No such facilities shall be located in a base- ment except by written approval of the building commissioner. S^.ction 23. The operator of every rooming house who supplies linens shall change supplied bed linen and towels therein at least once each week, and prior to the letting of any room to any occupant. The operator shall be responsible for the maintenance of all supplied bedding in a clean and sanitary manner. Section 24. Every room occupied for sleeping pur- poses by one person shall contain at least 70 square feet of floor space, and every room occupied for sleeping purposes by more than one person shall contain at least 40 square feet of floor space for each - 18 -