§ 7.16.240. Buildings, structures or tents—Minimum requirements.

In addition to the other requirements in this chapter set forth, all buildings, structures or tents used or intended or designed to be used for human habitation hereafter erected in any house court or tent camp space shall meet the following minimum requirements; and it shall be the duty of the owner or person legally in charge of the land upon which said house court or tent camp space is located or of the operator or person in charge of such house court or tent camp space to see that the following requirements are complied with:

A.

A clear air space of at least twelve inches shall be maintained between the ground and the lower edge of the floor joists of any building in a house court and the entire space under the building from the level of the floor to the ground shall be enclosed, except that a sufficient number of ventilating screens or lattices must be provided to properly ventilate underneath the building. The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to masonry floors laid directly on the ground.

B.

All floors, exterior and interior walls and ceilings and roofs of house court buildings shall be constructed of a good grade of surfaced lumber or other impervious material and shall be kept clean at all times.

C.

Every house court sleeping room must have a floor area of at least eighty square feet and be not less than seven feet in width at any point within that portion of the room counted for computing the minimum area of eighty square feet; and every living room, sleeping room or kitchen in a house court building must have a ceiling height of at least eight feet. Attic rooms or rooms where sloping ceilings occur, need only have the prescribed ceiling heights in not less than one-half the area of the room.

D.

Every living room, sleeping room or kitchen in every house court building shall be provided with windows the area of which shall be equal to at least one-eighth of the floor area, except that in no event shall the aggregate window area of any living rooms, sleeping room or kitchen be less than twelve square feet.

E.

The windows of all rooms in house courts must open onto unobstructed areas of adequate dimensions located on the same lot as the house court building they are designed to serve, and must be arranged so that at least one-half of their required aggregate area can be opened unobstructed to the sky.

F.

If a kitchen is provided in any house court building, it must be equipped with running water and a sink, if running water is available, and the drainage from such sink must be disposed of in a sanitary manner.

G.

No toilet room shall be permitted to open directly into a kitchen or other room in which food is prepared or stored.

(Ord. 176 § 25, 1939).