§ 2. Legislative finding. It is hereby declared that intensive
occupation of multiple dwellings having three or more families,
inadequate provision for light and air, insufficient protection against
and defective provisions for escape from fire, as well as the amount of
improper sanitation existing in multiple dwellings throughout this state
are a menace to the health, safety, morals, welfare, and reasonable
comfort of its citizens; and that the establishment and maintenance of
proper housing standards requiring sufficient light, air, sanitation and
protection from fire hazards are essential to the public welfare.
Therefore the provisions hereinafter prescribed to provide more adequate
protection in the event of fire, and sufficient light, ventilation and
sanitation for certain multiple residence buildings are enacted and
their necessity in the public interest is hereby declared as a matter of
legislative determination.