§ 76. Water-closet and bath accommodations. 1. General requirements.\nThis section shall apply to all dwellings whenever erected or converted\nexcept as herein provided.\n a. No water-closet shall be installed, kept or maintained in any yard,\ncourt or other open space, and every water-closet or other receptacle to\nreceive fecal matter, urine or sewerage, located in any such yard, court\nor other open space, shall be completely removed, and the place where\nthey were located shall be disinfected under the direction of the\ndepartment.\n b. No water-closet shall be installed, kept or maintained in a cellar\nor basement unless it is provided for lawful cellar or basement living\nrooms, or is supplementary to the required water-closet accommodations.\n c. No water-closet shall open directly into any kitchen or kitchenette\nin a multiple dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred\ntwenty-nine.\n d. Every water-closet compartment shall be at least two feet four\ninches in clear width and, except in a general toilet or bathroom, shall\nbe enclosed with partitions which shall extend from the floor to the\nceiling and which shall be plastered or tiled or covered with similar\nmaterials approved by the department.\n e. The floor of every such compartment, bathroom or general toilet\nroom shall be made waterproof with material approved by the department,\nand such waterproofing material shall extend six inches or more above\nthe floor, except at doors.\n f. The use of drip trays is unlawful.\n g. No plumbing fixture or water-closet shall be enclosed wholly or in\npart with woodwork.\n h. Every water-closet compartment, bathroom and general or public\ntoilet room, and every other room containing one or more water-closets\nor urinals, except as specifically provided otherwise in this section,\nshall have at least one window opening upon a street or lawful court,\nyard or space above a setback. Every such window shall be at least three\nsquare feet in area and shall be made so that half its area can be\nreadily opened.\n i. No window shall be required when each such compartment, bathroom or\ngeneral toilet room is located on the top story or underneath the bottom\nof a lawful shaft or court and is lighted and ventilated in either case\nby a skylight the roof of which contains at least three square feet of\nglazed surface and is arranged to be readily opened.\n j. In lieu of a required window or skylight, it shall be lawful to\ninstall a system of ventilation, approved for construction and\narrangement by the department, for water-closet compartments used for\nthe business portions of any dwelling or for compartments containing\nwater-closets, bathrooms or general toilet room in any dwelling. Such\nsystem of ventilation shall be maintained and operated continuously to\nprovide at least four changes per hour of the air volume of each such\nwater-closet compartment, bathroom or general toilet room daily from\nseven o'clock in the morning until seven o'clock at night in any\nbusiness parts of such dwelling and from six o'clock in the morning\nuntil midnight in all parts used for dwelling purposes.\n k. Every water-closet compartment or bathroom shall be provided with\nelectricity and fixtures to light the same properly.\n l. In a fireproof dwelling in which two or more rooms, all of which\nopen directly upon the same public hall, are occupied exclusively by\npersons employed by the tenants thereof, there shall be provided for the\noccupants of such rooms and accessible therefrom directly or through\nsuch public hall, at least one water-closet compartment for the first\nfour such rooms or fraction thereof and at least one additional\nwater-closet compartment for each additional seven such rooms or\nfraction thereof, and no further water-closet accommodations for such\nrooms shall be required.\n m. Water-closets may be placed together in a general toilet room\nprovided they are supplementary to required water-closet
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