§ 248. Single room occupancy. 1. It shall be unlawful to occupy any\nframe multiple dwelling for single room occupancy. It shall be unlawful\nto occupy any other existing class A dwelling or part thereof as a\nrooming house or furnished room house or for single room occupancy\nunless such dwelling or part shall conform to the provisions of this\nsection and to such other provisions of this chapter as were applicable\nto such dwelling before such conversion. This section shall not be\nconstrued to prohibit the letting by a family of one or more rooms\nwithin their apartment to not more than a total of four boarders,\nroomers or lodgers provided, however, that every room in such apartment\nshall have free and unobstructed access to each required exit from such\napartment as required by the provisions of paragraphs a, b and c of\nsubdivision four of this section. A dwelling occupied pursuant to this\nsection shall be deemed a class A dwelling and dwelling units occupied\npursuant to this section shall be occupied for permanent residence\npurposes, as defined in paragraph a of subdivision eight of section four\nof this chapter.\n 2. Any such dwelling may be so occupied without increasing the number\nof stairs.\n 3. The number of rooms shall not be increased nor shall the light or\nventilation of any room be impaired.\n 4. a. No room in any apartment shall be so occupied unless each room\ntherein shall have free and unobstructed access to each required means\nof egress from the dwelling without passing through any sleeping room,\nbathroom or water-closet compartment.\n b. There shall be access to a second means of egress within the\napartment without passing through any public stair or public hall. On\nand after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-seven every tenement used\nor occupied for single room occupancy in whole or in part under the\nprovisions of this section and which does not have at least two means of\negress accessible to each apartment and extending from the ground story\nto the roof, shall be provided with at least two means of egress, or, in\nlieu of such egress, every stair hall or public hall, and every hall or\npassage within an apartment, shall be equipped on each story with one or\nmore automatic sprinkler heads approved by the department. Elevator\nshafts in such tenements shall be completely enclosed with fireproof or\nother incombustible material and the doors to such shafts shall be\nfireproof or shall be covered on all sides with incombustible material.\n c. Where access to a required means of egress is provided through a\nroom, such access to such room shall be through a clear opening at least\nthirty inches wide extending from floor to ceiling and such opening\nshall not be equipped with any door or door frame, or with any device by\nmeans of which the opening may be closed, concealed or obstructed.\n d. All doors which open to any public hall or required stair hall and\nthe door assemblies shall be fireproof with the doors self-closing.\n e. All doors opening from any room to any hall or passage within an\napartment shall be self-closing and all transoms within an apartment\nshall be permanently closed. All plain glass shall be removed from such\ndoors and transoms and replaced with wire glass, wood or other\nnon-shatterable material satisfactory to the department.\n f. Directly over the opening to every required means of egress within\nan apartment, there shall be a sign of a type approved by the department\nmarked "Fire Exit" and lighted in red at all times to indicate clearly\nthe location of the means of egress, and on the walls of any hall or\npassage within the apartment leading to such means of egress there shall\nbe maintained at all times arrows to indicate clearly the direction and\nlocation of the fire exit.\n g. Every hall or passage within an apartment shall be unobstructed and\nwell lighted at all times with a minimum of one foot-candle of light.\n h. All wood wainscoting except a
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