McKinney's Consolidated Laws of New York Annotated, Book 60West Publishing Company, 1918 |
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Page 13 - A tenement house is any house or building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied as the home or residence of three families or more living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon any floor, so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets or privies, or some of them.
Page 52 - ... in the public hallways near the stairs upon the entrance floor...
Page 69 - No building hereafter constructed as, or altered into, a tenement house shall be occupied, in whole or in part, for human habitation until the issuance of a certificate by the officer aforesaid that said building conforms in all respects to the requirements of this act.
Page 64 - Every dwelling and every part thereof shall be kept clean and shall also be kept free from any accumulation of dirt, filth, rubbish, garbage or other matter in or on the same, or in the yards, courts, passages, areas or alleys connected with or belonging to the same.
Page 75 - Registry of Owner's Name. Every owner of a dwelling and every lessee of the whole house or other person having control of a dwelling shall file in the health department a notice containing his name and address and also a description of the property, by street number or otherwise as the case may be, in such manner as will enable the...
Page 42 - Where one side of an inner court is situated on the lot line, the width of the said court, measured from the lot line to the opposite wall of the building, for tenement houses...
Page 10 - shall" is always mandatory and not directory, and denotes that the dwelling shall be maintained in all respects according to the mandate as long as it continues to be a dwelling. Wherever the words "charter...
Page 68 - The construction, alteration or conversion of such tenement house, building, or structure or any part thereof, shall not be commenced until the filing of such specifications, plans and statements, and the approval thereof, as above provided.
Page 51 - ... may be cut into the partitions separating the said hall from a room which opens directly upon the street or upon a yard, court, or shaft of the dimensions specified in the last section; or said public hall may be lighted by a window or windows at the end thereof with the plane of the window at right angles to the axis of the said hall, said window opening upon the street or upon a yard, court, or shaft of said dimensions.
Page 46 - ... every public hall shall have at least one window opening directly upon the street or upon a yard or court.