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or dwelling unit, for the purpose of living therein, which does not comply with the following requirements. Section 12 -502. HABITABLE ROOM LIGHT AND VENTILATION. Except where there is supplied some other device affording adequate ventilation and approved by the compliance official, every habitable room shall have at least one window facing directly outdoors which can be opened easily. The minimum total of openable window area in every habitable room shall be the greater of 10% of the floor area of the room or ten square feet. One half of the required window area shall be openable. Section 12 -503. NONHABITABLE ROOM VENTILATION. Every bathroom and water closet compartment, and every laundry and utility room shall contain at least 50% of the ventilation requirement for habitable rooms contained in Section 12 -502, except that no windows shall be required if such rooms are equipped with a ventilation system which is approved by the compliance official. City of Brooklyn Center 12 -10 City Ordinance Section 12 -504. ELECTRIC SERVICE, OUTLETS AND FIXTURES. Every dwelling unit and all public and common areas shall be supplied with electric service, functioning overcuirent protection devices, electric outlets, and electric fixtures which are properly installed, which shall be maintained in good and safe working conditions, and shall be connected to a source of electric power in a manner prescribed by the ordinances, rules and regulations of the City of Brooklyn Center and by the laws of the State of Minnesota. The minimum capacity of such electric service and the minimum number of electric outlets and fixtures shall be as follows: 1. Dwelling containing one or two dwelling units shall have at least the equivalent of 60- ampere, three -wire electric service per dwelling unit. 2. Dwelling units shall have at least one branch electric circuit for each 600 square feet of dwelling unit floor area. 3. Every habitable room shall have at least one floor or wall -type electric convenience outlet for each 60 square feet or fraction thereof of total floor area, and in no case less than two such electric outlets provided, however, that one ceiling or wall -type light fixture may be supplied in lieu of one required electric outlet. 4. Every water closet compartment, bathroom, kitchen, laundry room, and furnace room shall contain at least one supplied ceiling or wall -type electric light fixture and every bathroom, kitchen, and laundry room shall contain at least one electric convenience outlet. 5. Every public corridor and stairway in every multiple family dwelling shall be adequately lighted by natural or electric light at all times at one foot candle at floor level, so as to provide effective illumination in all parts thereof. Every public corridor and stairway in structures containing not more than two dwelling units may be supplied with conveniently located light switches controlling an adequate lighting system which may be turned on when needed, instead of full -time lighting. 6. A convenient switch or equivalent device for turning on a light in each dwelling unit shall be located near the point of entrance to such unit. City of Brooklyn Center 12 -11 City Ordinance 8