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Section 2. The St. Anthony 1973 Code of Ordinances is amended to add a new Section 355:00 to read as follows: Section 355 HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY 355:00 Purpose. The purpose of this Section 355:00 is to protect the public health, safety, and the general welfare of the people of the City. These general objectives include, among others, the following: (a) Protect the character and stability of residential areas within the City. (b) To correct and prevent housing conditions that adversely affect or are likely to adversely affect the life, safety, general welfare and health, including physical, mental and social well-being of persons occupying dwellings within the City. (c) Provide minimum standards for cooking, heating, and sanitary equipment necessary to the health and safety of occupants of buildings. (d) Provide minimum standards for light and ventilation, necessary to health and safety. (e) Prevent the overcrowding of dwellings by providing minimum space standards per occupant for each dwelling unit. (f) Provide minimum standards for the maintenance of existing residential buildings, and to. thus prevent slums and blight. (g) Preserve the value of land and buildings. throughout the City. With respect to rental disputes, and except as otherwise specifically provided by the terms of this Section 355:00, it is not the intention of the City Council to intrude upon the fair and accepted contractual relationship between tenant and landlord. The City Council does not intend to intervene as an advocate of either party, nor to act as an arbiter, nor to be receptive to complaints from tenant or landlord which are not specifically and clearly relevant to the provisions of this Section 355:00. In the absence of such relevancy.with regard to rental disputes, it is intended that the contracting parties exercise such legal sanctions as are available to them without the in:ervention of the City Council to interfere or permit interference with legal rights to personal privacy. 355:05 Applica_bil tv. Every building and its premises used in whole or in part as a home or residence, or as a residential accessory structure, for a single family or • -5-