§ 319-1. Prosecutions for illegal residential occupancies and overcrowding in dwellings.

In all civil and criminal prosecutions brought for the enforcement of this Code's provisions with respect to the illegal use of any building for residential purposes or the illegal residential occupancy of any dwelling or dwelling unit by more families than the number of families permitted for such dwelling or dwelling unit under this Code, the following rebuttable presumptions shall apply:

A. 

That any detached dwelling or dwelling unit which maintains more than one mailbox or mail receptacle, more than one gas meter, more than one electric meter, and/or more than one water meter is being used as the residence of two or more families.

B. 

That any detached dwelling or dwelling unit which maintains more than two mailboxes or mail receptacles, more than two gas meters, more than two electric meters and/or more than two water meters is being used as the residence of three or more families.

C. 

That any detached dwelling or dwelling unit which maintains any entrance or entrances thereto, which entrance or entrances have not been set forth on any plans approved by and on file with the Department of Architecture, Land Use Development, Buildings and Building Compliance, is being used as the residence of two or more families.

D. 

That any detached dwelling or dwelling unit which maintains any third or additional entrances thereto, which entrance or entrances have not been set forth on any plans approved by and on file with the Department of Architecture, Land Use Development, Buildings and Building Compliance, is being used as the residence of three or more families.

E. 

That any building which has been advertised in any newspapers, magazines, or advertising publications as being available for sale or rent for residential purposes, in whole or in part, which advertisement expressly or implicitly provides that such building or the dwellings or dwelling units therein contain rooms for rent, contain more than one separate dwelling living unit, or may be occupied by more than one separate family, is being used as a dwelling containing the number of rooms for rent, dwelling units, or families stated or implied in such advertisement.

F. 

That any dwelling or dwelling unit which maintains two or more doorbells is being used as a dwelling for the same number of families as there are doorbells.

G. 

That any single-family dwelling or dwelling unit at which there are the following is being used for two or more families:

(1) 

Permanent partitions or internal doors which have not been set forth on any plans approved by and on file with the Department of Architecture, Land Use Development, Buildings and Building Compliance, which may serve to bar access between segregated portions of the dwelling, including but not limited to bedrooms, or the inability of any occupant or person in possession thereof to have unimpeded and/or lawful access to all parts of the dwelling unit; and/or

(2) 

Two or more kitchens which have not been set forth on any plans approved by and on file with the Department of Architecture, Land Use Development, Buildings and Building Compliance, each containing one or more of the following: a range, oven, microwave, or other similar device customarily used for cooking or preparation of foods.

H. 

That any two-family dwelling units at which there are the following is being used for three or more families:

(1) 

Permanent partitions or internal doors which have not been set forth on any plans approved by and on file with the Department of Architecture, Land Use Development, Buildings and Building Compliance, which may serve to bar access between three or more segregated portions of the dwelling, including but not limited to bedrooms; and/or

(2) 

Three or more kitchens which have not been set forth on any plans approved by and on file with the Department of Architecture, Land Use Development, Buildings and Building Compliance, each containing one or more of the following: a range, oven, microwave, or other similar device customarily used for cooking or preparation of foods.