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City of Saint Anthony Housing Maintenance Ordinance Draft Number 3 -- March 23, 1992 Page Number 1 1 HOUSING MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY ORDINANCE 2 3 INTRODUCTION 4 5 PURPOSE. The purpose of this ordinance is to protect the public health, safety, and the 6 general welfare of the people of the City. These general objectives include, 7 among others, the following: 8 9 1. to protect the character and stability of residential area within the City; 10 11 1 to correct and prevent housing conditions that adversely affect or are likely to 12 adversely affect the life, safety, general welfare and health, including physical, 13 mental and social well-being of persons occupying dwellings within the City.of 14 St. Anthony; 15 16 3. to provide minimum standards for cooking, heating, and sanitary equipment 17 necessary to the health and safety of occupants of buildings; 18 19 4. to provide minimum standards for light and ventilation, necessary to health 20 and safety; 21 22 5. to prevent the .overcrowding of dwellings by providing minimum space 23 standards per occupant for each dwelling unit; 24 25 6. to provide minimum standards for the maintenance of existing residential 26 buildings, and to thus prevent slums and blight; 27 28 7. to preserve the value of land and buildings throughout the City. 29 30 With respect to rental disputes, and except as otherwise specifically provided by the 31 terms of this ordinance, it is not the intention of the City Council to intrude upon the fair 32 and accepted contractual relationship between tenant and landlord. The City Council does 33 not intend to intervene as an advocate of either party, nor to act as an arbiter, nor to be 34 receptive to complaints from tenant or landlord which -are not specifically and clearly 35 , relevant to the provisions of this ordinance. In the absence of such relevancy with regard 36 to rental disputes, it is intended that the contracting parties exercise such legal sanctions as 37 are available to them without the intervention of the City Council to interfere or permit 38 interference with legal rights to personal privacy. 39 40 APPLICABILITY OF ORDINANCE. Every building and its premises used in whole or in 41 part as a home or residence, or as an accessory structure thereof, for a single family or 42 person, and every building used in whole or in part as a home or residence for two or more