If a room in a tenement, lodging or boarding house is overcrowded, the board of health or other enforcing agency may order the number of persons sleeping or living in such room to be so reduced that there shall not be less than five hundred cubic feet of air to each person over twelve years of age who occupies such room, and three hundred cubic feet of air to each child under twelve years of age who occupies such room.

See Sec. 19a-359 re required number of bathrooms and water closets in tenement houses.

(1949 Rev., S. 4053; 1963, P.A. 71; 1971, P.A. 194, S. 2; 1972, P.A. 178, S. 3; P.A. 79-571, S. 75.)

History: 1963 act raised requirements for water closets or vaults from one for each two apartments of three rooms or less and one for each apartment of four or more rooms to same requirements for apartments of two and three rooms respectively; 1971 act required that paint on accessible surfaces not be cracked, chipped, blistered, etc. so as to be a health hazard; 1972 act added reference to authorities other than board of health which are granted enforcement powers; P.A. 79-571 removed specific requirements re bathrooms, halls, windows, walls etc., reincorporating deleted provisions in new sections which became Secs. 47a-54b to 47a-54f, substituted “enforcing agency” for “authority designated to enforce this part” and rephrased remaining provisions; Sec. 19-346 transferred to Sec. 47a-54a in 1981.