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H. Light ~nd Ventilation - Non-Residential Uses. Natural or artificial means of ventilation shall be provided to insure a comfortable and healthful atmosphere throughout the establishment. In ~ cases where any process permits injurious, toxic, irritating or noxious fumes, gases, dusts, or mists; local exhaust ventilation shall be provided to remove agents at its source of evolution. Z. Any pipes, ducts, conductors, fans or blowers discharging gases, hot ' air, smoke, odors, or oth~r gaseous or particulate ,vastee which con- stitute a hazard or nuisance shall be removed. I. Mechanical and Electrical Systems - Residential Uses.' 1. Plumbing fixtures and waterpipes shall be properly installed and in good sanitaly condition meeting the requirements of the Building Code. Every family unit shall have heating facilities which are able to and which shall maintain heat for all habitable rooms, bathroolns and water closet compartments within its walls to a temperuture of at least soy* enb/degrees Fahrenheit even when the outside temperature is ten de- grees below zero Fahreaheit. Gas appliances designed for cooking or water heating purposes shall not be considered as heating facilities within the meaning of this section. Portable heating equipment em- ploying flame and the use of liquid fuels does not meet the require- ments of this section and is prohibited. No heating unit shall be placed under any stair serving another dwelling unit. An adequate supply of hot water shall be furnished at a temperature of not less than one hundred and twenty degrees Fahrenheit at all hot water taps. No water heater shall be installed in any room used or designed to be used for sleeping purposes. No gas or oil fired water heater shall be located in a bathroom, clothes closet, under any stair- way, or in a confined space with access only to the above locations. All habitable rooms and other appropriate spaces in each dwelling shall be provided ~vlth electrical service by a system of wiring and. ........... equipment to safely supply electrical energy for pFoper l]lun.zla~[ion, and for the appropriate location and use of appliances or other equip- ment. Existing wiring and electrical equipment to remain shall be determined to be in good and serviceable condition, and installed so as not to be a potential source of electrical hazard, or ignition of com- bustiMe materials. Replacement of existing wiring and equipment shall be made where these conditions are not fulfllled. · .J,.. Mechanical and Electrical Systems - Non-Residential Uses, 1. Plumbing fixtures and waterpipes shall be properly installed and in good sanitary condition meeting the requirements of the Building Code. Every enclosed space or room where persons are employed in duties and continuous operations shall have heating facilities which are able to and which sho. I1 maintain heat to a temperature of at least seventy degrees Fahrenheit even when ~xe outside temperature is ten deSross below Fahrenheit. Heating devices and installation shall he operated and maintained according] to the requirements of the Building Code. All gas burning unit heaters and water heaters shall be vented to the outside air by means of a smoke pipe or flue. Sufficient circuits shall be installed to various parts of the structure to prevent overloading and overfusin~. All conductors, wiring, out- lets, and electrical fixtures shall be properly installed and maintained i38