Sec. 6-200. Disorderly houses prohibited.
(a) No person shall occupy as owner-occupant or shall allow
another to occupy any dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming house, or
rooming unit (hereinafter jointly and severally “building”)
which is a disorderly house as defined herein.
(b) A “disorderly house” is any building which:
(1) The police have visited a minimum number of times in any
thirty (30) day period, as set forth in paragraph (3)
below, in response to situations which are created by the
owner, tenants, or owner’s or tenants’ cohabitees, guests
or invitees and which would have a tendency to
unreasonably disturb the community, the neighborhood or
an ordinary individual in the vicinity of said building,
including, but not limited to: loud music; boisterous
parties; sounds emanating from within the structure which
are audible outside the building; loud noise or fights
within the building or in its vicinity involving tenants
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of the building or their invitees (excluding incidents
involving domestic violence); tenants or invitees of
tenants being intoxicated on public ways in the vicinity
of the building; other similar activities in the building
or outside the building itself; or