weather shall be sufficiently heated, it being distinctly understood that the wash rooms be maintained at the expense of the coal company, steel mill, foundry, machine shop, or other business in which it is necessary for employees to have the use of such wash room, except that each employee shall furnish his individual soap and towels. SEC. 3. Inspection.-It shall be the duty of the State and assistant State inspectors of mines, steel mills, foundries, and other places where wash rooms are required by this act to inspect said wash rooms and places of business required by this act to be provided with wash rooms and report to the owner or operator the sanitary and physical conditions thereof in writing and make recommendations as to such improvements or changes as may appear to be necessary for compliance with the provisions of this act: Provided, This act shall not apply to mines that may be worked out within two years from the date of notification by the employees to erect said wash house, nor shall same apply to any owner or operator of any mine, steel mill, foundry, machine shop, or like business working 30 persons or more, where the expense of obtaining water to be used in connection with said wash house is so great as to be prohibitive of the business. It shall be the duty of every employee to make reasonable use of said wash rooms. SEC. 4. Violation, penalty.-Any owner or employer who shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $100. SEC. 5. Second offense, etc., penalty.—Any owner or employer who shall be convicted of a violation of the provisions of this act shall be subject to a conviction for succeeding offenses for each and every day he shall neglect or refuse to comply herewith. Housing Act. (Ch. 68, Act Mar. 23, 1920.) SECTION 1. Short title.-This act shall be known as the housing act. SEC. 2. Definitions.-Certain words and terms in this act are defined for the purposes thereof as follows: * * * * * * 99 (2) (a) A "dwelling is any house or building or portion thereof which is occupied in whole or in part as the home, residence, or sleeping place of one or more human beings, either permanently or transiently. For the purposes of this act dwellings are divided into three classes: (a) Private dwellings, (b) twofamily dwellings, (c) multiple dwellings. (b) A “private dwelling" is a dwelling occupied by but one family alone. (c) A " two-family dwelling" is a dwelling occupied by but two families alone. (d) A "multiple dwelling" is a dwelling occupied otherwise than as a private dwelling or a two-family dwelling. All multiple dwelings are dwellings, and for the purposes of this act are divided into two classes, viz, class A and class B. Class A-Multiple dwellings of class A are dwellings which are occupied more or less permanently for residence purposes by several families and in which the rooms are occupied in apartments, suites, or groups. This class includes tenement houses, flats, apartment houses, apartment hotels, bachelor apartments, studio apartments, duplex apartments, kitchenette apartments, and all other dwellings similarly occupied, whether specifically enumerated herein or not. Class B-Multiple dwellings of class B are dwelling[s] which are occupied, as a rule, transiently, as the more or less temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged, with or without meals, and in which, as a rule, the rooms are occupied singly. This class includes hotels, lodging houses, boarding houses, furnished-room houses, lodgings, clubhouses, convents, asylums, hospitals, jails, and all other dwellings similarly occupied, whether specifically enumerated herein or not. * * * * (7) A "public hall is a hall, corridor, or passageway not within the exclusive control of one tenant or family. (8) A "stair hall" is a public hall and includes the stairs, stair landings, and those portions of the building through which it is necessary to pass in going between any entrance and an apartment floor or the roof. (9) A "basement" is a story partly underground, but having at least onehalf of its height above the curb level, and also one-half of its height above the highest level of the adjoining ground. A basement, if not occupied for living purposes by other than the janitor or his family, shall not be counted as a story. (10) A "cellar" is a story having more than one-half of its height below the curb level, or below the highest level of the adjoining ground. A cellar shall not be counted as a story for purposes of height measurement. * * * * * * (15) The word "nuisance," in this act, shall be held to embrace a public nuisance as known at common law or in equity jurisprudence; and it is hereby further enacted that whatever is dangerous to human life or detrimental to health in, under, over, around, or about a dwelling; whatever dwelling or part thereof is overcrowded with occupants, or is not provided with adequate ingress and egress to and from the same, or the apartments thereof; whatever dwelling, or part thereof, is not sufficiently supported, ventilated, sewered, drained, cleaned, or lighted in reference to the intended or actual use; and whatever renders the air or human food or drink therein unwholesome are also severally, in contemplation of this act, nuisances; and all such nuisances are hereby declared illegal. 66 * * * * (17) Wherever the words department of buildings," "health officer," "mayor," or "city treasurer" occur in this act, they shall be construed as if followed by the words "of the city of the class in which the dwelling is situated." Wherever the words "health officer" occur in this act, they shall be construed as referring to the health officer having jurisdiction or such other appropriate public official as the mayor may designate. * * * * * 66 Wherever the words "city water" are used in this act, they shall be construed as meaning any public supply of water through street mains; and wherever the words public sewer" are used in this act, they shall be construed as meaning any part of a system of sewers that is used by the public, whether or not such part was constructed at the public expense. * * * SEC. 4. Alterations and change in occupancy.—No dwelling hereafter erected shall at any time be altered so as to be in violation of any provisions of this act. And no dwelling erected prior to the passage of this act shall at any time be altered so as to be in violation of those provisions of this act applicable to such dwelling. If any dwelling or part thereof is occupied by more familes than provided in this act, or is erected, altered, or occupied contrary to law, such dwelling shall be deemed an unlawful structure, and the health officer may cause such dwelling to be vacated. And such dwelling shall not again be occupied until it, or its occupation, as the case may be, has been made to conform to the law. SEC. 7. Sewer connections and water supply.―The provisions of this act with reference to sewer connections and water supply shall be deemed to apply only where connection with a public sewer and with public water mains is or becomes reasonably accessible. All questions of the practicability of such sewer and water connections shall be decided by the health officer. Where sewer connections and water supply are not accessible, the special provisions as hereinafter contained shall apply. • SEC. 8. Minimum requirements; law not to be modified.—The provisions of this act shall be held to [be?] the minimum requirements adopted for the protection of health, welfare, and safety of the community. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to invalidate existing ordinances or regulations of any city of the first class, or [of] the board of health or other public officials having jurisdiction, of any such city [,] imposing requirements higher than the minimum requirements laid down in this act relative to light, ventilation, sanitation, fire prevention, egress, occupancy, maintenance, and uses for dwellings; nor be deemed to prevent any such city or the board of health or other public officials having jurisdiction of any such city from enacting and putting in force from time to time ordinances and regulations imposing requirements higher than the minimum requirements laid down in this act; nor shall anything herein contained be deemed to prevent such cities or the board of health or other public officials having jurisdiction of any such city from prescribing for the enforcement of such ordinances and regulations remedies and penalties similar to those prescribed herein. And every such city or the board of health, or other public officials having jurisdiction, of any such city, is empowered to enact such ordinances and regulations and to prescribe for their enforcement. No ordinance, regulation, ruling, or decision of any municipal body, officer, or authority, or the board of health of any such city shall repeal, amend, modify, or dispense with any of the said minimum requirements laid down in this act. SEC. 9. State board of health.-The State board of health shall have the power to examine into the enforcement of this act in each city. Whenever required by the governor it shall make such an examination and shall report the results thereof to the governor within the time prescribed by him. SEC. 10. Time for compliance.-All improvements specifically required by this act upon dwellings erected prior to the date of its passage shall be made within one year from said date, or at such earlier period as may be fixed by the health officer. SEC. 21. Rooms, lighting and ventilation of.-In every dwelling hereafter erected, every room, including water-closet compartments, bathrooms, and kitchenettes, shall, except as hereinafter provided, have at least one window opening directly upon the street, or upon a yard, court, or shaft of the dimensions specified in this act, and such window or windows shall be so located as to properly light all portions of such room. SEC. 22. Windows in rooms.-In every dwelling hereafter erected the total dow area in each room, including water-closet compartments, bathrooms, and kitchenettes, shall be at least one-eighth of the superficial floor area of the room, and such required area of the whole window shall be made so as to open in all its parts. No such window shall be less than 12 square feet in area between the stop beads. The top of at least one window shall be not less than 7 feet 6 inches above the floor. SEC. 23. Rooms, size of.-In every dwelling hereafter erected all rooms, except water-closet compartments, bothrooms, and kitchenettes, shall be of the following minimum sizes: In each dwelling or in each apartment, group, or suit of rooms there shall be at least one room containing not less than 150 square feet of floor area; and each other room shall contain at least 84 square feet of floor area. No such room shall be in any part less than 7 feet wide. There shall be not less than 500 cubic feet of air to each adult, and 250 cubic feet of air to each child under 12 years of age occupying such room. Each room shall be in every part not less than 8 feet high om the finished floor to the finished ceiling: Provided, however, That an attic room, if habitable, need be 8 feet high in but one-half of its area, but at no point less than 5 feet 6 inches in height. * SEC. 25. Water-closet compartments, bathrooms, and kitchenettes, lighting and ventilation of.-In every dwelling hereafter erected, every water-closet compartment, bathroom, and kitchenette shall have at least one window opening directly upon the street, or upon a yard, court, or shaft of the dimensions hereinbefore specified; or, if located immediately beneath a roof, a ventilating skylight, open to the sky, may be used in lieu of the windows required by this section. The area of such windows or skylights shall be as prescribed by section 22 of this act: Provided, however, That no such window shall be less in size than 3 square feet between stop beads, and the opening of no such skylight shall be less than 3 square feet. Every such window shall be made so as to open in all its parts. Nothing in this section contained shall be construed so as to prohibit a general toilet room containing several water-closet compartments separated from each other by dwarf partitions; provided such toilet room is adequately lighted and ventilated to the outer air as above provided, and that such water-closets are supplemental to the water-closet accommodations as hereinafter required. The above provisions shall not apply to multiple dwellings that have a system of forced ventilation so constructed as entirely to change the air in every bathroom, toilet room, water-closet compartment, or kitchenette every seven minutes. SEO. 26. Public halls.-In every multiple dwelling hereafter erected every public hall shall have at each story at least one window opening directly upon the street or alley or upon a yard or court of the dimensions hereinbefore specified. Any part of a public hall which is offset or recessed more than 25 feet or is shut off from any other part of said hall shall be deemed a separate hall within the meaning of this section and shall be separately lighted and ventilated. Such window shall be so placed at the end of the hall that light may pass directly to the opposite end of the hall, or else there shall be at the side of the hall at least one such window in every 20 feet in length, or fraction thereof, of such hall, except in so much of any public entrance hall as lies between the entrance to the building and the flight of stairs nearest the entrance, provided the entrance door contains not less than 5 square feet of glazed surface. But where there is a system of artificial lighting and ventilation, which is in the opinion of the health officer adequate to properly light and ventilate said hall, the windows required in this and the two following sections may be omitted. SEC. 27. Windows for public halls, size of.-In multiple dwellings hereafter erected, one at least of the windows provided to light each public hall or part thereof shall have at least 12 square feet of area measured between the stop beads. SEC. 28. Windows for stair halls, size of.-In every multiple dwelling hereafter erected there shall be provided for each story at least one window to light and ventilate each stair hall, which window shall have at least 12 square feet of area, measured between the stop beads. A sash door opening to the outer air shall be deemed the equivalent of a window in this and the two foregoing sections: Provided, That such door contains the amount of glazed surface prescribed for such windows. Such window or door shall open directly upon the street or alley, or upon a yard or court of the dimensions hereinbefore specified. SEC. 30. Cellar rooms.-In dwellings hereafter erected no room in the cellar shall be constructed, altered, converted, or occupied for living purposes. SEC. 31. Basement rooms.-No room in the basement shall be constructed, altered, converted, or occupied for living purposes unless all of the following conditions are complied with: 1. Such room shall be at least 8 feet high from the floor to the ceiling. 2. In addition to the other requirements of this act, such room shall be well drained and dry and shall be fit for human habitation. SEC. 32. Cellars, damp proofing and lighting.-Every dwelling hereafter erected shall have a basement, cellar, or an excavated space at least 3 feet in depth under the entire entrance floor, or the entrance floor shall be elevated above the ground so that there will be a clear air space of at least 24 inches between the top of the ground and the bottom of said floor, so as to insure ventilation and protection from dampness. Such space shall in all cases be inclosed, but shall be provided with ample ventilation and shall be properly drained. In every dwelling hereafter erected adequate precautions shall be taken to prevent dampness in all cellars, basements, and foundation walls. When the nature of the soil is such that the damp proofing of walls and floors becomes necessary, such damp proofing shall run through the walls and up the same as high as the ground level and shall be continued throughout the floor. All cellars and basements in dwellings hereafter erected shall be properly lighted and ventilated. SEC. 33. Yards, courts, shafts, and areas. In every dwelling hereafter erected the bottom of all yards, courts, shafts, and areas which extend to the basement or cellar floor level shall extend 6 inches below the floor level of said basement or cellar. In every dwelling hereafter erected all yards, courts, shafts, and areas shall be properly graded and drained, and when required by the health officer they shall be properly paved in whole or in part, as may be necessary. SEC. 34. Water supply.-For every dwelling hereafter erected where public water mains are accessible there shall be provided within 12 feet of the entrance a proper water supply. When such water mains are not accessible such house shall have other water, suitable for all domestic uses, free from any contamination, supplied either within the house or within 12 feet thereof. SEC. 35. Water-closet accommodations.-For every dwelling hereafter erected there shall be a separate water-closet. Each such water-closet shall be placed in a compartment completely separated from every other water-closet, but a bathroom may be in the same compartment. Such compartment shall be not less than 3 feet wide and shall be inclosed with partitions which shall extend to the ceiling. It shall be lighted and ventilated as prescribed in section 25 of this act. No drip trays shall be permitted on any water-closet. No watercloset fixture shall be incased with any woodwork. Every water-closet compartment hereafter placed in any dwelling shall be provided with proper means of lighting the same at night. If fixtures for artificial light are not provided within said compartment, then the door of said compartment shall be provided with translucent glass panels, or with a translucent glass transom, not less in area than 4 square feet. No water-closet shall be placed in |