§ 8.16.260. Sleeping quarters - Private boarding schools and children's boarding homes.
Latest version.
- No person shall cause, permit, or suffer any child to sleep in any sleeping room, occupied by one child, providing overnight care in any building of a private boarding school or children's boarding home which provides less than eighty square feet of superficial floor area for each such child. Where a dormitory or semiprivate room is occupied by more than one child, there shall be provided no less than sixty square feet of superficial floor area for each such child. Beds shall be maintained at least three feet apart. Dormitories and semiprivate rooms shall have a ceiling height of not less than eight feet, and shall be well-lighted and ventilated to the outside air. Windows shall be one-half openable. The window area in any private boarding school or children's boarding home shall be not less than one-eighth of the superficial floor area.(Prior code § 6.08.380 (Ord. 349 § 24, 1951))