Staples, Minn., City Code ch. 103, art. IV § 103-96

(a) Compliance required. No person shall operate a roominghouse, or shall occupy or let to another for occupancy any rooming unit in any roominghouse, except in compliance with the requirements set forth in the rental housing maintenance code.
(b) Lavatory and bath facilities.
(1) At least one water closet, hand lavatory and bathtub or shower, properly connected to a water and sewer system and in good working condition, shall be supplied for each ten persons or fraction thereof residing within a roominghouse, including members of the operator's family wherever they share the use of the said facilities, provided that in a roominghouse where rooms are let only to males, flush urinals may be substituted for not more than one-half of the required number of water closets, and provided further that in roominghouses existing prior to July 1, 1972, where a hand lavatory, connected to a water and sewer system and in good working condition, is supplied in each rooming unit, then the number of persons who shall share the use of a water closet and bathtub or shower shall not exceed 12 persons. All such facilities shall be so located within the roominghouse as to be accessible to the occupants of each rooming unit sharing such facilities without going through a unit of another occupant. Every hand lavatory and bathtub or shower required under the provisions of this section shall be supplied with hot and cold running water at all times. No plumbing facilities required under this section except the guest toilet room may be located in a cellar. No such plumbing facilities shall be located more than one floor distant from the rooming unit for which such plumbing facilities are provided.
(2) General toilet rooms may be provided to serve members of one sex but not to exceed 24 persons. Water closet compartments and bath or shower compartments in general toilet rooms shall be constructed in such a manner so as to afford the user privacy. General toilet rooms shall have an approved mechanical ventilation system. Roominghouses having only general toilet rooms for the tenants all of one sex shall have a toilet room containing a water closet and hand lavatory for guest use.
(c) Communal kitchens. Communal kitchens shall be permitted only in roominghouse occupancies. Every roominghouse within which the occupants of rooming units are permitted to prepare meals shall contain a communal kitchen that has adequate cooking, refrigeration and plumbing facilities to allow the preparation of meals in a clean and healthful manner by the occupants. Every communal kitchen shall be located within a room accessible to the occupant of each rooming unit sharing the use of such kitchens, without going outside the roominghouse and without going through a unit of another occupant. The owner or operator of a roominghouse wherein meals are served to tenants shall obtain a food and drink license as required by the state health department.
(d) No-cooking signs. The operator shall post in every rooming unit a sign on which shall be written or printed in letters not less than one inch in height the following words: "No cooking permitted in this room;" and such sign shall remain so posted at all times. No person shall cook or prepare meals in any rooming unit, and no operator knowingly shall allow cooking or preparation of meals in any rooming unit.
(e) Sanitary maintenance. The owner or operator of every roominghouse shall be responsible for the sanitary maintenance of all walls, floors, and ceilings, and for the sanitary maintenance of every other part of the roominghouse; and he shall be further responsible for the sanitary maintenance of the entire premises where the entire structure or building within which the roominghouse is contained is leased or occupied by the operator.
(f) Reporting of communicable disease. The operator of a roominghouse shall report to the county health authority within 24 hours the name of any person living in the roominghouse who is suffering from a communicable disease, and such report shall be made whenever there is reason to believe or suspect that any person in such roominghouse may be afflicted with any communicable disease.
(g) Keeping of register. Every person registered as a roominghouse operator shall at all times keep a register within the roominghouse, in which shall be written the names of all occupants renting or occupying rooming units in such roominghouse. After the name or names of persons renting or occupying any rooming unit the operator, or operator's agent, shall write the number of the room or rooms which each person is to occupy, together with the date and hour when such room or rooms are rented, all of which shall be done before such person is permitted to occupy such room or rooms. The register shall be at all times open to inspection by the chief of police, county health authority, housing inspector, and fire chief, or their authorized representatives.
(h) Entry of true name in register. No person shall write or cause to be written in any roominghouse register any other or different name than the true name of such person or the name by which such person is generally known.
(i) Rehabilitation centers. A rehabilitation center as defined in section 103-88 (e) relating to the rental housing maintenance code, may be operated, provided:
(1) Such rehabilitation center provides a definite program of medical supervision and employs personnel of demonstrated competency in social and physical rehabilitation.
(2) Files with the housing inspector written rules, standards and controls governing the rehabilitation operation and program, and files with the housing inspector any amendments or additions to its code, and such rules, standards, program and amendments thereto are approved by the city council.
(3) If the rules, standards and programs as presented are approved by the city council, such rehabilitation center may then be registered as a multiple dwelling.
(4) If the above requirements are all complied with, the rehabilitation center may then operate a multiple dwelling.
(5) Maintain and comply with any and all licenses required by the state.