§ 13-5. Same—Individual tenant.  


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  • Each tenant is responsible for that part of the premises which he occupies to the exclusion of the other tenants; provided, that in case the premises are occupied by a tenant under a yearly or monthly tenancy, or under a lease for not more than a year, or under any lease whereby the lessor is expressly or impliedly obligated to keep the premises in repair, and the collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed or are likely to breed is owing to the disrepair of the buildings, or to any natural quality of the premises, or to any condition that existed at the time when the tenant entered into possession, or to anything done on the premises by the landlord during the existence of the tenancy or lease, then the landlord is the person responsible.

(Code 1967, § 16-6)