East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1950-06-08

agent, ianitor or custodian.
(c) A family" is any numbe
of individuals of marriage or bloc
relationship living together as
single housekeeping unit and hav
ing facilities for cooking and sleep
ing in that part of the premise
occupied by it. A family" ma
consist of one individual.
(d) A dwelling" is a building
intended or designed to be occupie
by not more than two families liv
ing separately and independently
of each other or such a building
which has with the approval of tn
Board of Zoning Appeals bee
remodeled so as to be occupied b.
not more than three families livini
separately and Independently O.
each other.
! (e) An apartment house" is ;
building arranged, intended or de
signed to be occupied by three Of
more families living separately
and Independently of each other
or building arranged, intended OIL
designed to be occupied in whole OF
in part by two or more families
above the first or ground floor, not
/ including however, building
classed as a dwelling in the defini.
tions above.
(f) A "roomer" is a person
other than a member of a family
as defined in Section 1 (c) hereof
who rents one or more rooms in q
dwelling or apartment house from
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 a single proprietor liv'
ing in such building, or to one OF
more persons by a single proprietor
not living in such building, or tC
one or more persons in any thirc
floor of dwelling as defined ir
Section 1 (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 OF
converted to be occupied, or so that
it could be occupied, by an addi-
tional family or families.
CHI A "hotel" includes all build
ings or parts thereof designed, con-
structed, altered or converted, in
which ten (10) or more rooms with
sleeping accommodations are Of
fered for pay to resident or tran
sient guests.
(i) "Rent" shall mean or include
the words "offer to rent" "lease," "
'let," or shire"
Cd A basement" is a story
below the first tier of floor beams
or joists in which the ceiling is
less than five 81 feet above the
grade at the building line.
(k) A, ,''foster home" is any
building or part of any building
occupied in such manner that a
child or children under the age of
eighteen (18) years and not a
member of the family or related
to a 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 a
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-haf of its
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 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
by family to a roomer unless said
family and roomer shall have the
Joint and exclusive use of bath
room, equipped with toilet, lavatory
and bathtub or shower.
(d) A room shall not be rented
or used as part of a foster home
in any premises unless there is
provided bathroom equipped with
toilet, lavatory and bathtub OF
shower for each eight (8) persons
or fraction Of such number of occu-
pants living in the premises includ-
ing rnonners. emnlOYees and mem