§ 6. Minimum thermal standards (heating and cooling).  


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  • No person shall occupy as owner-occupant, or let to another for occupancy, any dwelling or dwelling unit, for the purposes of living therein, which does not comply with the following requirements:
    6.01. 
    Every dwelling shall have heating facilities which shall be properly installed and maintained in a safe and working condition, and which shall be capable of safely and adequately heating all of the habitable rooms, kitchen or kitchenette, bathrooms, and water closet compartments in every dwelling unit located therein. Such heating facilities shall adequately heat the room to a temperature of at least sixty-eight (68) degrees Fahrenheit with an outside temperature of zero degrees Fahrenheit, the reading to be taken at a distance three (3) feet above the floor level of each such room.
    6.02. 
    Unvented flame space heaters are prohibited. Such portable electric heaters as are approved under the appropriate local or state electrical and/or fire prevention code, will be acceptable where they meet the provisions of paragraph 6.01.