§ 67. Hotels and certain other class A and class B dwellings. 1. It\nshall be unlawful to occupy any class A or class B multiple dwelling,\nincluding a hotel, unless it conforms to the provisions of the specific\nsections enumerated in section twenty-five to the extent required\ntherein, including the applicable provisions of this section and all\nother applicable provisions of this chapter except that the provisions\nof this section shall not apply to:\n a. Converted dwellings;\n b. Tenements;\n c. Lodging houses;\n d. Class A multiple dwellings erected under plans filed with the\ndepartment after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine.\n 2. Any such multiple dwelling, altered or erected after April fifth,\nnineteen hundred forty-four, and which is required to conform to the\nprovisions of articles one, two, three, four, five, eight, nine and\neleven, shall not be required to conform to the provisions of\nsubdivisions three, six, nine and ten of this section.\n 3. The walls and ceiling of every entrance hall, stair hall or other\npublic hall, every hall or passage not within an apartment or suite of\nrooms, every dumb-waiter, elevator, and, except as provided in paragraph\nd of subdivision six, every other shaft, including stairs, connecting\nmore than two successive stories, shall be sealed off from every other\nportion of the dwelling with fire-retarding materials approved by the\ndepartment, or, in lieu thereof, except in the case of elevator shafts,\nshall be equipped with one or more automatic sprinkler heads. Nothing\ncontained herein shall be deemed to exempt from enclosure an interior\nrequired means of egress. The provisions of this subdivision and similar\nrequirements of section sixty-one shall not apply to a store or space\nused for business on any story where there are no sleeping rooms, when\nsuch store or space is protected with sprinkler heads.\n 4. There shall be one or more completely enclosed compartments for the\nstorage of mattresses, furniture, paints, floor wax, linens, brooms,\nmops and other such inflammable or combustible paraphernalia incidental\nto the occupancy and maintenance of the dwelling, and such paraphernalia\nshall be stored in no other portion of such dwelling. Such compartments\nshall be completely protected by one or more automatic sprinkler heads.\nEvery door from any such compartment shall be self-closing. Closets\nwhich do not exceed one hundred square feet in floor area may be used\nfor the temporary storage of such paraphernalia, except mattresses,\nfurniture, paints and insecticides containing inflammable materials and\nare excluded from the requirements of this subdivision.\n 5. All kitchens and pantries serving restaurants in such non-fireproof\ndwellings shall be equipped with one or more automatic sprinkler heads.\n 6. Except in fireproof class A multiple dwellings erected under plans\nfiled after January first, nineteen hundred twenty-five, and which were\ncompleted before December thirty-one, nineteen hundred thirty-three, and\nexcept as otherwise provided in paragraph c of this subdivision, in\nevery such dwelling three or more stories in height there shall be from\neach story at least two independent means of unobstructed egress located\nremote from each other and accessible to each room, apartment or suite.\n a. The first means of egress shall be an enclosed stair extending\ndirectly to a street, or to a yard, court or passageway affording\ncontinuous, safe and unobstructed access to a street, or by an enclosed\nstair leading to the entrance story, which story shall have direct\naccess to a street. That area of the dwelling immediately above the\nstreet level and commonly known as the main floor, where the occupants\nare registered and the usual business of the dwelling is conducted,\nshall be considered a part of the entrance story; and a required stair\nterminating at such main floor or its mezzanine shall be deemed to\nterminate at the entrance story.
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