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City of Saint Anthony Housing Maintenance Ordinance Draft Number 1 -- November 10, 1991 Page Number 10 1 unit are equipped with safe, functioning locking devices. Multiple family dwellings shall be 2 furnished with door locks as follows: 3 4 (a) Multiple Family Dwelling SecuritySystems. For the purpose of providing a 5 reasonable amount of safety and general welfare for persons occupying 6 multiple family dwellings, an approved security system shall be maintained for 7 each multiple family building to control access. The security system shall 8 consist of locked building entrance or foyer doors, and locked doors leading 9 from hallways into individual dwelling units. Dead-latch type door locks shall 10 be provided with lever knobs (or door knobs) on the inside of building 11 entrance doors and with key cylinders on the outside of building entrance 12 doors. Building entrance door latches shall be of a type that are permanently 13 locked from the outside and permanently unlocked from the inside. 14 15 (b) Dwelling Unit Door Locks. Every door that is designed to provide ingress or 16 egress for a dwelling unit within a multiple family building shall be equipped 17 with an approved lock that has a dead-locking bolt that cannot be retracted 18 by end pressure, however, that such door shall be openable from the inside 19 without the use of a key or any special knowledge or effect. 20 21 SUMP PUMP WELLS. At the point of sale of a dwelling unit, sump pumps must be 22 inspected to ensure that they are not connected in any manner to the sanitary sewer system. 23 If the Compliance Officer determines the sump pump is connected to the sanitary sewer 24 system, the situation must be corrected before the dwelling unit is considered in compliance 25 to be sold. 26 27 MULTIPLE DWELLING OUTDOOR WATER SERVICE METERING. Each multiple 28 dwelling shall have a meter measuring the amount of water used for such outdoor activities 29 as lawn maintenance, gardening, parking lot cleaning. 30 31 MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR LIGHT AND VENTILATION. No person shall occupy 32 as owner, occupant or let to another for occupancy any dwelling or dwelling unit, for the 33 purpose of living.therein, which does not comply with the following requirements: 34 35 HABITABLE ROOM VENTILATION. Except where there is supplied some other device 36 affording adequate ventilation and approved by the Compliance Official, every habitable 37 room shall have at least one window facing directly outdoors which can be opened easily. 38 The minimum total of openable window area in every habitable room shall be in compliance 39 with minimum standards in the Minnesota Uniform Building Code. 40 41 NONHABITABLE ROOM VENTILATION. Every bathroom and water closet