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-~3_L_ Housing maintenance <br />53.010. Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to protect <br />the public health, safety and general welfare of the people of <br />t11e City, particularly non-owner occupied dwellings, including: <br />- =--'--y--= <br />(1) To protect the character and stability of residential <br />areas. <br />(2) `Po correct and prevent housing conditions that <br />adversely affect or are likely to adversely affect the life, <br />safety, general welfare and health, including the physical, <br />mental and social well-being of persons occupying dwellings. <br />(3) To provide minimum standards for cooking, heating, and <br />sanitary equipment necessary to health and safety. <br />(4) To provide minimum standards for light and ventilation, <br />necessary to health and safety. <br />(5) To prevent the overcrowding of dwellings by providing <br />minimum space standards per occupant for each dwelling unit. <br />(6) To provide minimum standards for the maintenance of <br />existing residential buildings, and to thus prevent slums and <br />blight. <br />(7) To preserve the value of land and buildings throughout <br />the City. <br />With respect to rental disputes, except as otherceise <br />specifically provided by this chapter, it is not the intention of <br />the City Council to intrude upon contractual relationships <br />between tenant and landlord. The City Council does not intend to <br />intervene as an advocate of either party, nor to act as an <br />arbiter, not to be receptive to .complaints from tenant or <br />landlord which are not specifically and clearly relevant to the <br />provisions of this chapter. In the absence of such relevancy <br />with regard to rental disputes, it is intended that the <br />contracting parties exercise such legal sanctions as are <br />available to them without the intervention of city government. <br />53.012. Application. <br />(1) Every building and its premises used in whole or in <br />part as a rented home or residence, or as an accessory structure <br />thereof, for a single family or person, and every building used <br />in whole or in part as a rented home or residence of two or more <br />persons or familes living in separate units shall conform to the <br />requirements of this chapter, irrespective of when such building <br />may have been constructed, altered, or repaired. This <br />establishes minimum standards for erected dwelling units, <br />• accessory structures and related premises. <br />4-1-89 ,40 <br />