East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-06-15
ORDINANCE NO. 44s7
By Mr.. Horan

HOUSES, FOSTER HOMES
AND HOTELS IN THE CITY
OF EAST CLEV ND,
OHIO, AND REPEATING OR
DINANCE NO. 3692, PASSED
NOVEMBER 18, 1941, IN
CLUDING ALL A MEN D.
MENTS THERETO.
BE 1T ORDAINED by the Com
mission of the City of East Cleve-
land, Ohio.
SECTION 1: DEFINITIONS.
Certain words in this ordinance are
defined for the purposes hereof
as follows:
(a) Words in the present tense
include the future; the singular
number includes the plural and the
plural includes the singular.
(b) The word proprietor" shall
mean the owner, lessor or rentor
of room or rooms used for habi-
tation in any building, or his
agent, janitor or custodian.
(c) A family" is any number
of individuals of marriage on blood
relationship living together as a
single housekeeping unit and hav-
ing facilities for cooking and sleep
ing in that part of the premises
occupied by it. A family" may
consist of one individual.
I'D A dwelling" is a building
intended or designed to be occupied
by not more than two families liv-
ing separately and independently
~ hI1Jl n cr
which has with the approval of the
Board of Zoning Appeals been
remodeled so as to be occupied by
not more than three families living
separately and independently of
each other.
(e) An apartment house" is a
building arranged, intended or de-
signed to be occupied by three or
more families living separately
and Independently of each other,
or building arranged, intended or
designed to be occupied in whole or
in part by two or more families
above the first or ground floor, not
including however, building
classed as dwelling in the defini-
tions above.
(f) A "roomer" is a person,
other than a member of a family
as defined in Section l (c) hereof,
who rents one or more rooms in a
dwelling or apartment house from
a proprietor as a habitation, but
does not have separate facilities
for cooking on the premises.
(g) A "rooming house" is any
building or part of any building,
other than hotel, occupied in such
a manner that certain rooms, not
having facilities for cooking, are
leased or rented to three or more
persons by single proprietor liv-
ing in such building, or to one or
more persons by single proprietor
not living in such building, or to
one or more persons in any third
floor of a dwelling as defined in
Section l (d) hereof. The term
rooming house shall include lodg-
ing house and tourist home and,
pending consideration and deter
mination by the Board of Zoning
Appeals, shall include any building
or part thereof which has been
remodeled, re-arranged, altered or
converted to be occupied, or so that
it could be occupied, by an addi-
tional family or families.
(h) A "hotel" includes all build
ings or parts thereof designed, con-
structed, altered or converted, in
which ten (1O) or more rooms with
sleeping accommodations are of
fered for pay to resident or tran
sient guests.
(D "Rent" shall mean or include
the words "offer to rent" "lease,"
"let," or "hire."
Cd A basement" is a story
below the first tier of floor beams
or joists in which the ceiling is
less than five (5) feet above the
grade at the building line.
(k) A "foster home" is any
building or part of any building
occupied in such a manner that a
child or children under the age of
eighteen (18) years and not a
member of the family or related
to member of the family by blood
or marriage are boarded, kept or
maintained for compensation.
SECTION 2: 1t shall be unlaw-
full for any proprietor to keep
= roomers or to conduct or keep
= rooming house, foster home, or
hotel unless and until said propri-
etor complies with all of the pro-
visions of this ordinance and all
other ordinances and regulations
of the City of East Cleveland and
with all laws and regulations of
the State of Ohio pertaining to
zoning, safety, fire, building,
health and sanitation.
1t shall be unlawful for any
proprietor or person to keep a
total number of roomers or persons
in a building or any part thereof
in excess of or contrary to any
limitation or restriction that may
have been fixed by the Board of
Zoning Appeals.
SECTION 3: 1t shall be unlaw-
full for any proprietor to keep
roomers unless the premises and
rooms so used shall comply with
the following requirements:
(a) Any sleeping room which is
rented or used as part of foster
home shall have a minimum floor
area of eighty square feet, a mini
mum height for one-half of it's
floor area of seven and one-half
feet, a minimum volume of six
hundred and forty cubic feet and
a minimum volume per occupant
of any such room of four hundred
cubic feet.
(b) Rooms shall not be rented
or used as part of a foster home
in such number that the remaining
rooms used for sleeping purposes
by the family on the premises,
shall have a volume of less than
four hundred cubic feet per person.
(c) A room shall not be rented
bv family to a roomer unless said
fox,;Iy opd roopnar shall have the