319.05            Purpose.  That a certain document, one (1) copy of which is on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Mound, being marked and designated as the International Property Maintenance Code as published by the International Code Council, Inc., be and is hereby adopted as the Property Maintenance Code of the City of Mound, in the State of Minnesota; for the control of buildings and structures as herein provided; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Property Maintenance Code are hereby referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this ordinance, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes, if any, prescribed as follows:

            Subd. 1.         The following sections are hereby revised:

                                    Section 101.1 – Insert: City of Mound

                                    Section 103.6 – Insert: Not applicable

                                    Section 303.14 – Insert: May 1^st to September 1^st

                                    Section 602.3 – Insert: October 1^st to May 1^st

                                    Section 602.4 – Insert: October 1^st to May 1^st

             Subd. 2.        The following sections of the International Property Maintenance Code are hereby deleted in their entirely:

                                    Section 302.4.  Weeds

                                    Section 302.8.  Motor Vehicles

319.10                        Removal of Snow and Ice. The owner/occupant of any rental dwelling shall be responsible for the removal of snow and ice from parking lots and/or driveways, steps and walkways on the premise. Individual snowfalls of three (3) inches or more or successive snowfalls accumulating to a depth of three (3) inches shall be removed from walkways and steps within 48 hours after cessation of the snowfall.

319.15                        Egress Requirements.  Every sleeping room below the fourth story shall have at least one (1) operable window or exterior door approved for emergency escape or rescue. The units shall be operable from the inside to provide a full clear opening without the use of separate tools.

1.      All egress or rescue windows from sleeping rooms shall have a total glazed area of at least five (5) square feet. The smallest net clear opening for each such window shall be twenty (20) inches in width by twenty-four (24) inches in height.

2.      Where windows are provided as a means of escape or rescue, they shall have a finished sill height not more than forty-eight (48) inches above the floor.

             3.      Any such window replaced or newly installed shall be done in accordance with Section                     300 of the Mound Ordinance Code and in the Codes adopted therein.

 (ORD. 03-2003, 6/8/03)