Conditions and Rental Suitability

Landlord duties:

  • (1) Comply with the requirements of all applicable building, housing, health, and safety codes that materially affect health and safety;

  • (2) Make all repairs and do whatever is reasonably necessary to put and keep the premises in a fit and habitable condition;

  • (3) Keep all common areas of the premises in a safe and sanitary condition;

  • (4) Maintain in good and safe working order and condition all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning fixtures and appliances, and elevators, supplied or required to be supplied by the landlord;

  • (5) When the landlord is a party to any rental agreements that cover four or more dwelling units in the same structure, provide and maintain appropriate receptacles for the removal of ashes, garbage, rubbish, and other waste incidental to the occupancy of a dwelling unit, and arrange for their removal;

  • (6) Supply running water, reasonable amounts of hot water, and reasonable heat at all times, except where the building that includes the dwelling unit is not required by law to be equipped for that purpose, or the dwelling unit is so constructed that heat or hot water is generated by an installation within the exclusive control of the tenant and supplied by a direct public utility connection;

    • ORC 5321.04 (http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/5321.04)