Architecture and Building, Volume 44W.T. Comstock Company, 1912 |
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Page 18 - Article six of chapter thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to labor, constituting chapter thirty-one of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended by inserting therein * new section, to be section eighty-three-b, to read as follows: §83-b.
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Page 18 - ... employed above the seventh floor or more than ninety feet above the ground level of such building, the owner of the building shall Install an automatic sprinkler system approved as to form and manner in the city of New York by the fire commissioner of such city, and elsewhere, by the state fire marshal.
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