Housing Conditions in New Haven1913 - 48 pages |
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HOUSING CONDITIONS IN NEW HAVE Carol 1881-1957 Aronovici,Civic Federation of New Haven Committee No preview available - 2016 |
HOUSING CONDITIONS IN NEW HAVE Carol 1881-1957 Aronovici,Civic Federation of New Haven Committee No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 37 - tenement house," when used in this chapter, means any house or building, or portion thereof, which is either rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied in whole or in part as the home or residence of three families or more living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises...
Page 41 - 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 department aforesaid that said building conforms in all respects to the requirements of this act. Such certificate shall be issued within ten days after written application therefor, if said building at the date of such application shall be entitled thereto.
Page 39 - In every tenement house hereafter erected every room, except water-closet compartments and bathrooms, shall have at least one window opening directly upon the street, or upon a yard or court of the...
Page 39 - In every tenement house hereafter erected, all rooms, except water-closet compartments and bathrooms, shall be of the following minimum sizes ; in each apartment there shall be at least one room containing not less than one hundred and twenty square feet of floor area, and each other room shall contain at least seventy square feet of floor area. Each room shall be in every part not less than eight feet six inches high from the finished floor to the finished ceiling; provided, that an attic room need...
Page 39 - ... in every tenement house hereafter erected all rooms, except water-closet compartments and bathrooms, shall be of the following minimum sizes; in each apartment there shall be at least one room containing not less than one hundred and twenty...
Page 43 - Health may also order or cause any tenement house, or part thereof, or any excavation, building, structure, sewer, plumbing pipe, passage, premises, ground, matter, or thing in or about a tenement, lodging, or boarding house, or the lot on which such house is situated, to be purified, cleansed, disinfected, removed, altered, repaired, or improved. If any order of the Board of Health...
Page 41 - Permit to commence Building. — Before the construction or alteration of a tenement house, or the alteration or conversion of a building for use as a tenement house is commenced, and before the construction or alteration of any building or structure on the same lot with a tenement...
Page 44 - ... shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both...
Page 43 - Health may declare that the same, to the extent it may specify, is a public nuisance, and may order the same to be removed, abated, suspended, altered or otherwise improved or purified, as the order shall specify.
Page 39 - ... courts ; provided, that the running length of the wall containing such windows does not exceed six feet. Offsets or recesses in outer or inner courts may be made ; provided, that the width of such offsets or recesses shall in every case be equal to or greater than the depth. When a tenement house hereafter erected has no basement, the courts mentioned in the preceding sections may start at the level of the second tier of beams.