§ 18-96. Minimum standards for ventilation.

(a)

Every habitable room shall have at least one window or skylight opening directly to the outdoors which can easily be opened, or such other device as will adequately ventilate the room. The minimum total openable window area in every habitable room shall be equal to 45 percent of the minimum total window area required in subsection 18-95(b), except where there is supplied some other device affording adequate ventilation and approved by the building official.

(b)

When walls or other portions of structures face a window and are located less than three feet from the window and extend to a level above that of the ceiling of the room so as to be a light obstruction feature, such window shall not be included as contributing to the required minimum total window area.

(c)

Every bathroom shall have ventilation equal to four square feet or such other device as will adequately ventilate the room and which is approved by the building official.

(Code 1979, § 15-22)