A.    Health Requirements. No owner, lessee, manager or superintendent of any store, factory, workshop, or other place where persons are employed shall cause or permit such place, or any room or part thereof, to be overcrowded or inadequate or faulty in respect to light, ventilation, heat or cleanliness.

    B.    Sanitation. All such places of employment shall be kept in a clean condition, free from effluvia of a sewer, drain, privy, stable or other nuisance; also as far as practicable, such premises shall be free from all gases, vapors, dust or other impurities generated by manufacturing processes or otherwise which are injurious to health. Sufficient washroom facilities for male and female employees shall be provided and such facilities shall be properly ventilated.

    C.    Heat Required.

    1.    It shall be the duty of every person owning or controlling the heating plant which furnishes heat to any factory or workshop, to maintain a temperature within such factory or workshop of not less than sixty-eight (68) degrees Fahrenheit, without such undue restriction of ventilation as to interfere with proper sanitary conditions therein; provided, however, that this requirement shall not apply to any factory or workshop where the business conducted therein is of such a nature that a higher or lower temperature than sixty-eight (68) degrees Fahrenheit is necessary or expedient for the work or manufacturing processes of such business.

    2.    It shall be the duty of any person owning or controlling the heating plant which furnishes heat to any office, store or other place of employment to maintain a temperature therein of not less than sixty-eight (68) degrees Fahrenheit without such undue restriction of ventilation as to interfere with proper sanitary conditions therein, between the hours of eight a.m. and six p.m. from October 1st of each year to June 1st of the succeeding year, Sundays and legal holidays excepted.

    D.    Inspection. The health officer and the building commissioner shall visit or cause to be visited all such places of employment in the city as often as they shall deem necessary to assure compliance with the provisions of this section, and to have such arrangements made as may be deemed necessary for the health and safety of the employees. (Prior code § 7-1-11)