§ 24.40. Minimum heating of apartments, offices and stores.  


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  • It shall be the duty of every person owning or controlling any tenement or apartment house, hotel, lodging house, rooming house, boardinghouse, office or store building in the City, in which the heat is furnished from a heating plant used in common for the purpose of heating the various rooms and apartments, offices and stores therein, and such heating plant is under the control or supervision of such owner or person in control of such building, to furnish heat to such rooms and apartments, offices and stores from September 15th of each year to June 15th of the succeeding year, so that the occupants thereof may secure, without such undue restriction of ventilation as to interfere with proper sanitary conditions, a minimum temperature in apartments and rooms (lodging) of sixty-eight (68) degrees Fahrenheit from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and sixty-five (65) degrees Fahrenheit from 10:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. and, in offices and stores, a minimum of sixty-eight (68) degrees Fahrenheit from 8:00 a.m. until closing time and a minimum of sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit from closing time in the evening until 8:00 a.m.