Norwalk, Conn., Code of Ordinances ch. 59 § 59-4

No person shall occupy as owner-occupant, or let to another for occupancy, any dwelling or dwelling unit for the purpose of living, sleeping, cooking or eating therein which does not comply with the following requirements: A. Every dwelling unit shall contain a room or space for the storage, preparation and cooking of food, which shall include space for a stove or other cooking facilities and space for dry-food storage and space for refrigerated food storage, and shall include a kitchen sink installed. The sink shall be in good working condition and properly connected to hot and cold running water systems under pressure and approved sewage disposal system, which sink and systems shall be installed and maintained in a manner prescribed by the ordinances, rules and regulations of the city. B. Every dwelling unit, except as otherwise permitted under § 59-4C , shall be equipped with a complete bathroom fixture group consisting of a flush water closet, lavatory basin and bathtub or shower in good working condition and installed and maintained in a manner prescribed by the ordinance, rules and regulations of the city. Such fixture group shall be properly connected to an approved sewage disposal system and to an approved hot and cold running water system under pressure, except that the flush water closet shall be connected to an approved sewage system and to an approved cold running water system under pressure. The flush water closet, lavatory basin and bathtub or shower need not be installed in the same room, but the room shall afford privacy to a person within such room. C. The occupants of not more than two dwelling units may share a single flush water closet and/or a single lavatory basin and/or a single bathtub or shower if: (1) The dwelling units were created on or before the effective date of this chapter. (2) Neither of the two dwelling units contains more than one room, provided that, for the purposes of this subsection, a kitchenette or an efficiency kitchen with not more than 60 square feet of floor area shall not be counted as a room. (3) The habitable area of each such dwelling unit shall equal not more than 250 square feet of floor area. (4) Such water closet, lavatory basin and bathtub or shower shall be in good working condition, installed and maintained and properly connected as required in § 59-4B . (5) Such shared facilities are located within the dwelling so as to be reasonably accessible from a common hall or passageway to all persons sharing such facilities. (6) Such shared facilities are contained within a room which affords privacy to a person within such room. D. Every dwelling unit shall be supplied with adequate rubbish storage facilities and with adequate garbage disposal facilities or garbage storage containers whose type and location are approved by the Director of Public Health. It shall be the responsibility of the owner to supply such facilities or containers for all dwelling units in a dwelling containing three or more dwelling units and for all dwelling units located on premises where more than four dwelling units share the same premises. In all other cases, it shall be the responsibility of the occupants to furnish such facilities or containers. E. The water-heating facilities necessary to provide the hot water required under §§ 59-4A , B and C and 59-9G shall be properly installed and connected to the hot-water lines required under those subsections, shall be maintained in safe and good working condition and shall be capable of heating water to such a temperature as to permit an adequate amount of water to be drawn at every required kitchen sink, lavatory basin, bathtub or shower at a temperature of not less than 120° F. Such supplied water-heating facilities shall be capable of meeting the requirements of this subsection when the dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming house or rooming unit heating facilities required under the provisions of §§ 59-5E and 59-9 are not in operation. F. Every dwelling unit shall have safe, unobstructed means of egress leading to safe and open space at ground level, as required by the statutes, ordinances and regulations of the state and the city. G. Lead paint or potentially hazardous material on the interior surfaces of any dwelling unit, rooming unit, rooming house or on any fixtures or other objects used, installed or located in or upon any exposed surface in any such facility subject to letting or occupancy by children is prohibited. Such interior surfaces include, but are not limited, to windowsills, window frames, doors, door frames, walls, ceilings, stair rails and spindles and all other appurtenances of the interior portion of the dwelling premises. H. Every dwelling or accessory structure, and the premises upon which it is located, shall be rodentproof and maintained so as to prevent the harboring of rodents. Such premises shall be graded and drained, kept free of standing water and maintained in a clean, sanitary and safe condition. I. Every dwelling unit shall have closet or storage space of at least four square feet floor-to-ceiling height for personal effects of each of the permitted number of occupants of that dwelling unit. If such required closet or storage space is lacking, an amount of space, equal in square footage to the deficiency, shall be subtracted from the area of habitable room space to be used in determining the number of occupants to be permitted in the dwelling unit.