Natick, Mass., Bd. of Health Reg. ch. XI (2002) § 8

8.1   No owner, or occupant shall cause any service, facility,
          equipment or utility which is required under these minimum
          standards to be removed from or shut off from or discontinued
          from any occupied dwelling let or occupied by him, except for
          such temporary interruption as may be necessary while actual
          repairs or alterations are in process or during temporary
          emergencies when discontinuance of service is approved by
          the Board of Heath. In the event that any service or utilty
          which the owner has agreed to supply is discontinued the
          owner shall take immediate steps to cause the restoration of
          such service or utility.

    8.2   The owner of a dwelling located in an area found by the Board
          of Health to be infested by rats, insects or other vermin shall
          carry out such rat stoppage, vermin proofing or other means of
      preventing or remedying such infestations of said dwelling as
      may be required by the Board of Health.

8.3   No owner shall occupy or let to an occupant any vacant
      dwelling unit or lodging unit unless it is clean and sanitary.

8.4   Every owner of a dwelling containing two or more dwelling or
      lodging units shall be responsible for maintaining in a clean
      and sanitary condition the shared or public areas of the
      dwellings and premises thereof.

8.5   Every occupant of a dwelling shall keep in a clean and sanitary
      condition the part of the dwelling which he occupies and
      controls.

8.6   Every occupant of a dwelling unit shall dispose of all his
      rubbish in a clean and sanitary manner by placing it in the
      rubbish containers required by Subsection 4.2 of Section 4 of
      these minimum standards.

8.7   Every occupant of a dwelling unit shall dispose of all his
      garbage and any other organic waste which might provide food
      for rodents, by placing it in the garbage disposal facilities or
      garbage storage receptacles required by Sub-section 4.l of
      Section 4, of these minimum standards.

8.8   It shall be the responsibility of an occupant of a dwelling unit
      to furnish such garbage and rubbish storage receptacles as are
      necessary within the dwelling unit. In dwellings containing no
      more than two dwelling units, it shall be the responsibility of
      the occupant of a dwelling unit to furnish such additional
      storage receptacles outside of the dwelling unit as are needed
      for the storage of garbage and rubbish until removal from the
      premises. In dwellings containing three or more dwelling
      units, it shall be the responsibility of the owner to furnish such
      receptacles outside of the dwelling units as are needed for the
      storage of garbage and rubbish until removal from the
      premises.
    8.9    Every occupant of dwelling containing a single dwelling unit
           shall be responsible for the extermination of any insects,
           rodents or other pests therein or on the premises; and every
           occupant of a dwelling unit in a dwelling containing more than
           one dwelling unit shall be responsible for such extermination
           whenever his dwelling unit is the only one infested.
           Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Subsection,
           whenever infestation is caused by the failure of the owner to
           maintain a dwelling in a rat-proof or reasonably insect-proof
           condition, extermination shall be the responsibility of the
           owner. Whenever infestation exist in two or more of the
           dwelling units in any dwelling, or in the shared or public parts
           of any dwelling containing two or more dwelling units,
           extermination thereof shall be the responsibility of the owner.

    8.10   Every occupant of a dwelling unit shall keep all plumbing
           fixtures there in in a clean and sanitary condition and shall be
           responsible for the exercise of reasonable care in the proper
           use and operation thereof.

Stuart C. Peterson
                             Joseph P. Foley
                             John S. Wheeler, M.D.