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SECTION 6. MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR LIGHT AND VENTILATION. No person shall occupy as owner, occupant or let to another for occupancy any dwelling or dwelling unit, for the purpose of living therein, which does not comply with the following requirements: 6-1. HABITABLE ROOM VENTILATION. Except where there is supplied some other device affording adequate ventilation and approved by the Compliance Official, every habitable room shall have at least one window facing directly outdoors which can be opened easily with an area of not less than 10% of the floor area with a minimum of 10 square feet. 6-2. NONHABITABLE ROOM VENTILATION. Every bathroom and water closet compartment, and every laundry and utility room shall contain at Least the ventilation requirement for habitable rooms contained in Section 7-1, except that no windows shall be required if such rooms are equipped with a ventilation system capable of providing for five air changes per hour. 6-3. ELECTRIC SERVICE, OUTLETS AND FIXTURES. Every dwelling unit and all public and common areas shall be supplied with electric service, functioning over current protection devices, electric outlets, and electric fixtures which are properly installed, which shall be maintained in good and safe working condition, and shall be connected to a source of electric power in a manner prescribed by the Ordinance, rules and regulations of the City of Gem Lake and by the laws of the State of Minnesota. The minimum electric outlets and fixtures shall be as follows: 6-3.1. Dwelling containing one or two dwelling units shall have at least the equivalent of 60-ampere, three -wire electric service per dwelling unit as a condition of sale_ 6-3.2. Dwelling units shall have at !east one branch electric circuit for each 600.square feet of dwelling unit floor space. 6-3.3. Every habitable room shall have at least one floor or wall- type electric convenience outlet for each 60 square feet or fraction thereof of the total floor space, and in no case less than two such electric outlets, provided, however, that one ceiling or wall -type light fixture may be supplied in lieu of one required electric outlet. 6-3.4. Every water closet compartment, bathroom, kitchen, laundry room, and furnace -room, shall contain at least one supplied ceiling or wall -type electric light fixture and every bathroom, kitchen, and laundry room shall contain at least one electric convenience outlet.