The Tenement House Laws of the City of New York1903 - 122 pages |
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The Tenement House Laws of the City of New York New York (State),New York (N y ) Tenement House Dept No preview available - 2015 |
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abatement suit action aforesaid agent board of health bureau cellar in height centum chapter constructed contained curb level deemed defendant department of buildings department of health employees enforcement exceeding three stories existing tenement house filed fire escapes floor house hereafter erected house or building hundred incurred injunction inner court judge judgment least less lessee liable lien lot line matter or thing ment house misdemeanor nuisance occupied officers order relates ordinances owner partment party penalty person plans and specifications police commissioner police department powers and duties premises proceedings proper provisional remedy public halls punishment regulations respect shaft six inches square feet stair halls statement stories and cellar street and number street or yard tene tenement house act tenement house commissioner tenement house department tenement house hereafter therein thereof thereto tion TITLE transoms twelve feet violation wall water-closet compartments width wrought iron YORK CHARTER
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Page 51 - ... its records the same as a nuisance, and order the same to be removed, abated, suspended, altered or otherwise improved or purified, as said order shall specify...
Page 10 - The owner or keeper of any lodging-house, and the owner or lessee of any tenement house or part thereof, shall thoroughly cleanse all the rooms, passages, stairs, floors, windows, doors, walls, ceilings, privies, cesspools and drains...
Page 3 - Such room shall have a window or windows opening upon the street, or upon a yard or court. The total area of windows in such room shall be at least one-eighth of the superficial area of the room, and one-half of the sash shall be made to open the full width, and the top of each window shall be within six inches of the ceiling.
Page cv - ... no building of any kind shall be hereafter placed upon the same lot with a tenement house so as to decrease the minimum size of courts or yards as hereinbefore prescribed.
Page 87 - ... (b) Shall in the second case be the amount estimated as the value of the building if it had been put into a sanitary condition, or into reasonably good repair, after deducting the estimated expense of putting it into such condition or repair ; and (c) Shall in the third case be the value of the materials of the building.
Page 12 - The statements and affidavits herein provided for may be made by the owner, or the person who proposes to make the construction, alteration or conversion, or by his agent or architect. No person...
Page cv - ... fireproof self-closing doors at all openings. In no case shall any shaft be constructed of materials in which any inflammable material or substance enters into any of the component parts.
Page 47 - The repeal of a statute or part thereof shall not affect or impair any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the time such repeal takes effect, but the same may be asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted, as fully and to the same extent as if such repeal had not been effected...
Page 44 - ... as its by-laws or rules may provide) from all public dispensaries, hospitals, asylums, infirmaries, prisons and schools, and from the managers, principals and officers thereof, and from all other public institutions, their officers and managers, and from the proprietors, managers, lessees and occupants of all places of public...
Page 21 - ... of the county in which the property is situated, a notice of the pendency of the action...