lar properly cemented so as to be water tight; the halls of each floor shall open directly to the external air, with suitable windows, and shall have no room or other obstruction at the end unless sufficient light and ventilation is otherwise provided for said hall in a manner approved by the Commissioner of Buildings. Section 6. No owner, agent, lessee, or keeper of any tenement house or lodging house or boarding house shall cause or allow same to be over-crowded or cause or allow so great a number of persons to rwell, be or sleep in any such house or any such portion thereof as thereby to cause any danger or detriment to health. No room in any tenement or lodging house shall be so crowded that there shall be less than 400 cubic feet of air to each adult and 200 cubic feet of air to each child under twelve years of age occupying the said room. Section 7. Every person who shall be the owner, lessee, keeper, manager or agent of any tenement house, lodgnig house, boarding house, store or manufactory shall porvide or cause to be provided for the accommodation thereof and for the use of tenants, lodgers, boarders and workers therein adequate privies or water-closets, and same shall be so adequately ventilated and shall at all times be kept in such a cleanly and wholesome condition as not to be offensive or dangerous or detrimental to health. And no offensive smell or gases from or through any outlet or sewer or from any such privy or watercloset shall be allowed by any person aforesaid to pass into any such house or part thereof or into any other house or building. Section 8. No person having the right or power to prevent the same shall knowingly cause or permit any person to sleep or remain in the cellar or in any place dangerous or prejudicial to health by reason of the want of ventilation or drainage or by reason of the presence of any poisonous, noxious, or offensive substance or otherwise. Section 9. Every tenement or lodging house shall have the proper or suitable conveniences or receptacles for receiving garbage and other refuse matter. No tenement or lodging house nor any portion thereof shall be used as a place for any combustible article or any article dangerous or detrimental to health; nor shall any horse, 'cow, calf, swine, poultry, sheep or goat be kept in said house. Section 10. Every tenement or lodging house and every part thereof shall be kept clean and free from any accumulation of dirt, filth, gar bage or any other matter in or on the same or in the yard or court, area, passage or in the alley connected with or belonging to the same. The owner, manager or agent of any tenement house or any part thereof shall thoroughly cleanse all rooms, passages, stairs, floors, windows, doors, walls, ceilings, privies, cess-pools and drains thereof of the house or any part of the house of which he is the owner or lessee or agent, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Health so often as shall be required by or in accordance with any regulation or order of said commissioner, and shall well and sufficiently to the satisfaction of said commissioner, whitewash the walls and ceilings thereof twice at least in every year, and in the months of April and October, unless said commissioner shall direct otherwise. Section 11. The owner or keeper of any lodging house, and the owner or agent of the owner, and the lessee of any tenement house or part thereof shall whenever any person in such house is sick of fever or of any infectious, pestilential or contagious disease, and such sickness is known to such owner, keeper, agent or lessee, give immediate notice thereof to the Commissioner of Health, and thereupon said officer shall cause the same to be inspected, and take such action as in his judgment he deems necessary for the protection of health. Section 12. A tenement house within the meaning of this article shall be taken to mean and include every house, building or portion thereof which is rented, leased or hired out to be occupied as the residence or home of more than three families, living independently of one another and doing their own cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets or privies or some of them. Section 13. A lodging house shall be taken to include any house or building or portion thereof in which persons are harbored, received or lodged for hire for a single night or less than a week at one time, or any part of which is let for a person to sleep in for any term less than a week. Section 14. A cellar shall be taken to mean and include every basement or lower story of any building or house of which one-half or more of height from the floor to the ceiling is below the level of the floor adjoining. Section 15. Any person or persons violating, disobeying, neglecting, or refusing to comply with or resisting any of the provisions of this article or who refuse to comply with any sanitary regulations of the department of health concerning any of the matters or things mentioned in this article shall, upon conviction, be subject to a penalty of not less than $10.00 and not exceeding $200.00 or imprisonment in the house of correction not less than fifteen nor more than sixty days. Section 16. All ordinances or parts of ordinances containing the terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 17. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publicaton. Read a first and second time and referred to the committees on pubile buildings, and grounds and judiciary. |