PL PACKET 09182001 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

3.30 DWELLING, MAINTENANCE AND OCCUPANCY CODE. 3.31 Title. Sections 3.30 through 3.394 of this chapter shall be known,cited,and referred to as the New Hope Dwelling Maintenance and Occupancy Code, except as referred to herein, where it shall be known as the Dwelling Code. 3.32 Purpose and Obiectives. The purpose of the Dwelling Code is to protect the public health, safety, and the general welfare of the people of the City. 3.321 General Obiectives. General objectives of the Dwelling Code include, among others, the following: 3.321 (1) Protection. To protect the character and stability of all areas within the City. 3.321 (2) Prevention of Adverse Conditions. To correct and prevent conditions that adversely affect or are likely to adversely affect the life,safety, general welfare, and health, including the physical, mental, and social well-being of persons occupying or utilizing structures within the City. 3.321 (3) Health Standards. To provide minimum standards for cooking,heating, sanitary equipment, light, and ventilation necessary to health and safety., 3.321(4) Overcrowding. To prevent the overcrowding of dwellings by providing minimum space standards per occupant for each dwelling unit. 3.321 (5) Maintenance. To provide minimum standards for the maintenance of existing buildings, and to thus prevent deterioration and blight. 3.321 (6) Land Values. To preserve the value of land and buildings throughout the City. 3.322 Discrimination and Privacy. Inspection and enforcement shall be based on the requirements of this Dwelling Code only and shall not be used to discriminate against any person on any basis not specified herein. Neither is it the intention of the City Council by the enactment of this Dwelling Code to interfere or permit interference with legal rights to personal privacy. 3.323 Right to Livelihood. The City Council does not,by this Dwelling Code, intend to deprive any person of the right to livelihood,except when the pursuit of that livelihood is liable to be deleterious to the public health, safety, or general welfare of the people of the City. 3.324 Contractual Relationships. With respect to rental, lease, or sale disputes, and except as otherwise specifically.provided in the terms of this Dwelling Code, it is not the intention of the City Council to intrude upon the fair and accepted contractual relationship between tenant and landlord or between buyer and seller. The City Council does not intend to intervene as an advocate of any party, nor to act as an arbiter, nor to be receptive to complaints which are not specifically and clearly relevant to the provisions herein,nor to be responsible for certification of the condition of structures,fixtures,or facilities, except _ at the time of inspection. In the absence of other relevancy to the provisions of this Dwelling Code, it is intended that the contracting parties exercise such legal sanctions as are available to them without the intervention or involvement of City government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Ord. 77-15) 3 -16 072684