5.35.106 Facilities necessary.
No permit to conduct a bathhouse shall be issued unless an inspection by the Police Chief and the health officer reveals that the establishment complies with each of the following minimum requirements:
A. Construction of rooms used for toilets, tubs, steam baths, and showers shall be made waterproof with approved waterproof materials.
1. For toilet rooms, toilet room vestibules and rooms containing bathtubs, there shall be a waterproof floor covering, which will be carried up all walls to a height of at least six inches. Floors shall be covered up on base with at least three-fourths-inch cover. The walls of all toilet rooms and rooms containing bathtubs shall be finished to a height of six feet from a smooth, nonabsorbent finish surface of Keene cement, tile, or similar material.
2. Steam rooms and shower compartments shall have approved waterproof floors, walls and ceilings.
3. Floors of wet and dry heat rooms shall be adequately pitched to one or more floor drains properly connected to the sewer. (Exception: Dry heat rooms with wooden floors need not be provided with pitched floors and floor drains.)
4. A source of hot water shall be available within the immediate vicinity of dry and wet heat rooms to facilitate cleaning.
B. Toilet facilities shall be provided in convenient locations, and every bathhouse shall provide at least one water closet. When five or more employees and patrons of each sex are on the premises at the same time, separate toilet facilities shall be provided. A single water closet per sex shall be provided for each 20 employees or patrons of that sex on the premises at any one time. Urinals may be substituted for water closets in the toilet facility for males after one water closet has been provided; provided, however, that there shall be at least one water closet for each 60 employees or patrons of the male sex. All toilet rooms shall be equipped with self-closing doors opening in the direction of ingress to the toilet rooms. Toilets shall be designated as to the sex accommodated therein.
C. Lavatories or wash basins provided with both hot and cold running water shall be installed in either the toilet room or the vestibule. Lavatories or wash basins shall be provided with soap in a dispenser and with sanitary towels.
D. All portions of bathhouse establishments and baths shall be provided with adequate light and ventilation by means of windows or skylights with an area of not less than one-eighth of the total floor area, or shall be provided with approved artificial light and a mechanical operating ventilating system.
Areas of the bathhouse, other than those areas provided only to individual patrons, shall at all times during bathhouse operation have a direct illumination level of at least 15 footcandles of light measured 30 inches above the floor. When windows or skylights are used for ventilation, at least one-half of the total required window area shall be operable.
To allow for adequate ventilation, cubicles, rooms, and areas provided for patrons’ use not served directly by a required window, skylight, or mechanical system or ventilation shall be constructed so that the height of partitions does not exceed 75 percent of the floor-to-ceiling height of the area in which they are located. (Ord. 2408 § 1, 1990; Ord. 2256 § 1, 1988).