§ 174-11. Heating requirements.

A. 

It shall be the duty of every person who has contracted to furnish heat or who is required by any contract, agreement, lease or other arrangement or by law to heat or furnish heat to any building or part thereof occupied as a place of habitation or occupied as a business establishment or for public or governmental purposes where one or more persons are employed to furnish heat to every occupied room in such building or part thereof so as to maintain temperature as follows:

(1) 

Not less than 68º F. between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. whenever the temperature outside of the building shall fall below 55º F.

(2) 

Not less than 60º F. between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. whenever the temperature outside the building shall fall below 50º F.

B. 

For the purposes of this section, the temperature within a place of habitation shall be that obtained at a distance of five feet above the average floor level of the room in which such temperature is obtained.