Residential Health and Housing Inspections strive to protect, preserve, and promote the physical and mental health, and safety of residents in houses, apartments, hotels, motels, shelters, bed & breakfast establishments, rooming & boarding houses, etc. Inspections are conducted based on complaints.
Minimum housing standard requirements include:
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properly connected and functioning equipment and facilities such as toilets, kitchen sinks, bathtubs or showers;
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proper lighting, ventilation, and heating;
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safe and sanitary dwellings;
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supplied utility services such as water, electricity, and gas;
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minimum space for occupancy; and
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pest free living through preventing such pests as cockroaches, mice, bedbugs, mosquitos,etc.
Hotels, motels, bed & breakfast establishments, and rooming & boarding houses are inspected annually regardless of any complaints filed.