East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-06-15
quately screened from May to

October 81 of each year.
(f) No rooms shall be rented or
used as foster home in a base
ment as herein defined unless ap-
proved by the Board of Building
Appeals.
(g) When a room is to be rented
on the third floor of any dwelling,
such floor shall not exceed three
(3), and no roomers shall be per-
mitted on any third floor except
with the consent and approval of
the Board of Zoning Appeals, and
the means of egress shall have
been approved by the Building
Inspector or Deputy Building In
spector.
(h) The means of egress to the
outside of the premises from any
room which is rented or used as
part of foster home shall meet
with the approval of the Building
Inspector or Deputy Building In
spector and shall at all times be
kept clear of distractions and any
door which must be used in con-
nection with such means of egress
shall be provided with a lock which
can be opened from the inside
without the use of a key.
(i) Any building in which a
room is rented or used as part of
a foster home shall be kept in
good repair and in accordance
with the ordinances and regula-
tions of the City of East Cleveland
as to plumbing and sewerage; heat
ing, including chimneys, flues,
furnaces, fireplaces, stoves and
similar equipment; electrical work,
including wiring, conduit, outlets
and equipment connected there
with; roofs, cutters and down.
spouts; regulations as to the keep
ing of ashes, rubbish, paper, burn
ables and garbage in suitable con-
tainers; and the building and
premises shall be kept in clean,
orderly and sanitary condition.
Cd 1t shall be unlawful for any,
one to keep or cause to be kept or
rent or lease any premises wherein
any children under twelve (12)
years of age or persons that are
invalids, infirm, insane, feeble
minded, convalescent or aged are
domiciled on the third floor of a
dwelling unless such children, in
valids, infirm, insane, feeble
minded, convalescent or aged are
members of the immediate family
of an owner or lessee who, with
the remainder of his family, is
domiciled on another floor of such
dwelling.
(k) Each room or occupied space
which is rented or used as part of
a foster home shall have heat fur
nished or shall be supplied with an
approved means of heating so that
a minimum temperature of sixty
eight degrees Fahrenheit (680F)
can be maintained between the
hours of $50 A. M. and HOO
P. M.
For the purpose Of determining
whether or not the temperature in
any such room or occupied space is
in accordance with the provisions
of this section, temperature read
ings shall be made by means of a
standard Fahrenheit thermometer
at point not less than four feet
az nor greater than six feet
(6) above the floor.
SECTION d: 1t shall be unlaw-
full for any proprietor or person
to conduct or keep any rooming
house, foster home or hotel within
the corporate limits Of the City
of East Cleveland without having
first obtained from the City Man
ager a license emitting him so to
do, which license shall be valid
until the 31st day of December of
the year in which it is granted.
SECTION 5: A license, as here
in provided, may be granted by the
City Manager upon an application
which shall contain information and
facts deemed necessary by said
City Manager and in such manner
and form as shall be prescribed by
him, which application shall be
accompanied by a fee of Fifty
Cents ($0.50) for each person to
be accommodated in the dwelling
or building to be so licensed, pro-
vided that the applicant, the
property, and the use Of the
property in question shall comply
with all of the provisions of this
and all other ordinances of the
City of East Cleveland and Laws
of tho State of Ohio
(a) The City Manager be and
he is hereby authorized, subject to
the approval and consent of the
Board of Zoning Appeals, and sub
ject to cancellation or modification
at any time by the City Manager
or by the Board of Zoning Appeals,
to issue a temporary license for the
keeping of roomers or the opera
tion of rooming houses, foster
homes or hotels in the City of
East Cleveland for the period of
one year, or part thereof in each
of the years during the housing
shortage, and containing such
modification as may be found
necessary by reason of the facts
set forth in paragraph (b) of Sec
tion 13 hereof. Said issuance of
the temporary license provided for
in this section during the housing
shortage shall not in any way,
manner or form permanently modi-
fly or change in any respect what
soever, the zoning, rooming house
or other ordinances pertaining to
zoning, the keeping of roomers,
and the operation of rooming
houses or foster homes or hotels
in the City of East Cleveland, now
in effect; provided further, that if
the housing shortage shall con-
tinue, such temporary license may
be issued until such time as such
housing shortage shall end, and the
City Commission of the City of
East Cleveland shall be the sole
judge as to when the end of such
housing shortage shall occur; and
the annual license fee to be
charged for such temporary license
shall be the same as for the regu-
lar license provided for in this