"Chapter 15B. Minimum Housing Hygiene Standard Code"

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Title: "Chapter 15B. Minimum Housing Hygiene Standard Code"
Repository: The Code of the County of Fairfax, Virginia: The general ordinances of the County.
Date Created: 1961
Creator: Fairfax County (Va.)
Description: County ordinance Chapter 15B. The Minimum Housing Hygiene and Standards Code was passed by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday, June 14, 1961, and took effect Friday, September 1, 1961.

This Hygiene Code was implemented throughout the county and established standards for basic facilities for light, water, heating, and "safe and sanitary maintenance of dwellings". To keep track of this the county created a Board of Housing Hygiene and a court of appeals to the board for homes/owners found in violation of these codes. The housing hygiene codes significantly impacted the small number of citizens in the county who made up those areas marked as blighted, slums, impoverished, and below the standards of the growing and developing county. Thus, primarily impacting small communities, or Black enclaves such as Gum Springs who had long been left without funding for sewers, housing, and roads.
Research Themes: County Codes and Ordinances
Housing
Codes
Laws
Hygiene
Board of Housing Hygiene
Displacement
Displacement in place
Gum Springs
Blight
Type: County Codes and Ordinances
Book
Researcher Name: Jacob Connelly
Bibliographic Citation: Fairfax County (Va.). “Chapter 15B. Minimum Housing Hygiene Standard Code.” In The Code of the County of Fairfax, Virginia: The General Ordinances of the County., 126.6 to 126.22a. Fairfax County, Virginia: Michie, 1961.