Title MDW, Multiple Dwelling

§ 36. Windows and skylights for public halls and stairs. 1. In every multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, one at least of the required windows provided to light each public hall or part thereof shall be at least two feet six inches wide…

§ 360. Cancellation of notice of pendency of action. If an action or proceeding to establish a lien upon such premises terminates otherwise than in a judgment establishing such a lien, or if the judgment be fully paid, such notice of pendency of action or proceeding may be cance…

§ 365. Laws repealed. All statutes of the state and local laws, ordinances and regulations of cities to which this chapter is or hereafter becomes applicable, so far as inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, are hereby repealed; provided that nothing in this chapter c…

§ 366. Saving clauses. 1. The repeal of any provisions of this chapter, or the repeal of any provisions of any statute of the state or local law, ordinance, resolution or regulation shall not affect or impair any act done, offense committed or right accruing, accrued or acquired…

§ 367. Effect of invalidity in part. If any term, part, provision, article, section, subdivision or paragraph of this chapter shall be held unconstitutional, or ineffective in whole or in part, then to the extent that it is not unconstitutional or ineffective, this chapter and s…

§ 37. Artificial hall lighting. 1. In every multiple dwelling the owner shall provide a light or lights, each of at least sixty watts incandescent or twenty watts cool white fluorescent or equivalent illumination, for every vestibule and entrance hall in every public hall, stair…

§ 4. Definitions. Certain words and terms when used in this chapter,\nunless the context or subject matter requires otherwise, are defined as\nfollows:\n 1. Wherever the word or words "occupied," "is occupied," "used" or "is\nused" appear, such word or words shall be construed a…

§ 50. Entrance halls. Every entrance hall in every multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall be at least four feet in clear width from the entrance to the first stair, and beyond that shall be at least three feet eight inches in clear …

§ 50-a. Entrances: doors, locks and intercommunication systems. 1. Every entrance from the street, passageway, court, yard, cellar, or similar entrance to a class A multiple dwelling erected or converted after January first, nineteen hundred sixty-eight, except an entrance leadi…

§ 50-c. Rights of tenants to operate and maintain a lobby attendant service. 1. Tenants of every class A multiple dwelling containing eight or more apartments shall be entitled to maintain and operate a lobby attendant service for such multiple dwelling at any time or times when…

§ 51. Shafts, elevators and dumbwaiters. 1. Every shaft constructed after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, in any multiple dwelling shall be enclosed on all sides with fireproof walls and shall have fireproof doors and assemblies at all openings, with the doors se…

§ 51-a. Peepholes. In every multiple dwelling the owner shall provide and maintain a peephole in the entrance door of each housing unit. Such peephole shall be located, as prescribed by the department, but shall be so located as to enable a person in such housing unit to view fr…

§ 51-b. Mirrors in connection with self-service elevators. In all multiple dwellings in which there are one or more self-service passenger elevators, there shall, pursuant to such regulations as the department shall prescribe, be affixed and maintained in each such elevator a mi…

§ 51-c. Rights of tenants to install and maintain locks in certain entrance doors. Every tenant of a multiple dwelling, except a tenant of a multiple dwelling under the supervision and control of a municipal housing authority, occupied by him, except as a hotel or motel, or coll…

§ 52. Stairs. 1. In every multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, every interior stair, fire-stair and fire-tower and every exterior stair in connection with any dwelling altered or erected after January first, nineteen hundred fifty-one, …

§ 53. Fire-escapes. Every fire-escape erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall be located, arranged, constructed and maintained in accordance with the following provisions: 1. Access to a fire-escape shall be from a living room or private hall in each …

§ 54. Cellar entrance. There shall be a direct entrance to the cellar, or to the lowest story if there be no cellar, from the outside of every multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, except that in non-fireproof multiple dwellings erected …

§ 55. Wainscoting. 1. Whenever the surface of walls, partitions or ceilings in any apartment or suite of rooms of any non-fireproof multiple dwelling is covered, sheathed or wainscoted wholly or in part after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, such covering shall be…

§ 56. Frame buildings and extensions. 1. Except as provided in section one hundred ninety-three and subdivision seven of this section, no frame multiple dwelling shall be erected and no frame dwelling not used as a multiple dwelling on April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-n…

§ 57. Bells; mail receptacles. 1. Whenever bells are installed at the entrance to any multiple dwelling or at any door of an individual apartment in a multiple dwelling, they shall be kept in good working order. 2. Whenever the owner of a multiple dwelling has not arranged for m…

§ 58. Incombustible materials. Except as may be specifically provided otherwise in this chapter, all required incombustible materials, including fireproofed wood, shall be capable of withstanding successfully standard fire tests as prescribed by the building code. In the absence…

§ 59. Bakeries and fat boiling. 1. It shall be unlawful to construct or maintain a bakery or a place of business where fat is boiled in any non-fireproof multiple dwelling or upon the lot on which such dwelling is situated, unless the ceiling, side walls and all exposed iron or …

§ 60. Motor vehicle storage. A space may be provided and maintained in any multiple dwelling or upon the premises thereof, or a structure may be erected and maintained at the rear or side thereof, for the storage of passenger motor vehicles but only with a written permit therefo…

§ 61. Business uses. 1. Except as may be otherwise provided by any local law, ordinance, rule or regulation, business may be conducted in any multiple dwelling including: a. Baking and fat-boiling as provided in section fifty-nine, b. Storage of passenger motor vehicles as provi…

§ 62. Parapets, guard railings and wires. 1. Every open area of a roof, terrace, areaway, outside stair, stair landing, retaining wall or porch and every stair window of a multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall be protected in a man…

§ 63. Sub-curb uses. 1. When any living room is below the level of the highest curb in front of any multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph f of subdivision one of section thirty-four, all por…

§ 64. Lighting; gas meters; gas and oil appliances. 1. Every multiple dwelling after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-five, shall be adequately equipped throughout all stories and cellars for lighting by gas or electricity, with proper fixtures at every light outlet, including…

§ 65. Boiler rooms. 1. Except as hereafter provided, in every multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, which is four stories or more in height the boiler shall be enclosed in a room or space constructed with fireproof walls extending from t…

§ 66. Lodging houses. 1. It shall be unlawful to occupy any lodging house unless such dwelling conforms to the provisions of the specific sections enumerated in section twenty-five to the extent required therein, including the provisions of this section, and to all other applica…

§ 67. Hotels and certain other class A and class B dwellings. 1. It shall be unlawful to occupy any class A or class B multiple dwelling, including a hotel, unless it conforms to the provisions of the specific sections enumerated in section twenty-five to the extent required the…

§ 68. Smoke detecting devices. 1. This section shall apply to all multiple dwellings, whenever constructed, provided however, that for the purposes of this section the term "multiple dwelling" shall also include any dwelling accommodation used as a temporary or permanent residen…

§ 75. Water supply. 1. In every multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, where space is provided for cooking there shall be in every apartment a proper sink with running water and with a two-inch waste and trap. 2. The owner of every multip…

§ 76. Water-closet and bath accommodations. 1. General requirements. This section shall apply to all dwellings whenever erected or converted except as herein provided. a. No water-closet shall be installed, kept or maintained in any yard, court or other open space, and every wat…

§ 77. Plumbing and drainage. 1. In every multiple dwelling all liquid or water-borne waste from plumbing fixtures shall be conveyed by a house drain and house sewer to a street sewer or to a combined street storm-water main and sewer, unless no such sewers are available. It shal…

§ 78. Repairs. 1. Every multiple dwelling, including its roof or roofs, and every part thereof and the lot upon which it is situated, shall be kept in good repair. The owner shall be responsible for compliance with the provisions of this section; but the tenant also shall be lia…

§ 79. Heating. 1. Every multiple dwelling exceeding two stories in height and erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, and every garden-type maisonette dwelling project erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred fifty-four, shall be provided with heat.…

§ 8. General application of chapter to dwellings. All the requirements of this chapter shall apply to all kinds and classes of multiple dwellings, except where there are specific provisions, requirements or exceptions for one or more kinds or classes. A specific provision for on…

§ 80. Cleanliness. 1. The owner shall keep all and every part of a multiple dwelling, the lot on which it is situated, and the roofs, yards, courts, passages, areas or alleys appurtenant thereto, clean and free from vermin, dirt, filth, garbage or other thing or matter dangerous…

§ 81. Receptacles for waste matter. 1. The owner of every multiple dwelling shall provide proper and suitable conveniences or receptacles for ashes, rubbish, garbage, refuse and other waste matter and shall arrange for the removal of such waste matter daily. 2. No person shall p…

§ 82. Privacy. In every apartment of three or more rooms in every class A multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, there shall be access to every living room and bedroom without passing through any bedroom.

§ 83. Janitor or housekeeper. Whenever there are thirteen or more families occupying any multiple dwelling and the owner does not reside therein, there shall be a janitor, housekeeper or some other person responsible on behalf of the owner who shall reside in said dwelling, or w…

§ 84. Construction standards for the control of noise. On or before January first, nineteen hundred sixty-nine, the department shall formulate, adopt, promulgate and thereafter from time to time amend standards of sound retardation for the walls, partitions and floors and ceilin…

§ 9. Buildings converted or altered. 1. On or after December\nfifteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-one, no multiple dwelling shall be\nenlarged or its lot diminished so that the yard or other unoccupied\nareas shall be less in size or area than the minimum dimensions\nprescribed in…