New York Multiple Dwelling Law Title 2 - FIRE PROTECTION AND SAFETY

• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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....
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...

Last modified: February 3, 2019