2006 New York Code - Interior Water-closets And Bathrooms



 
    §  215.  Interior  water-closets and bathrooms. 1. Except as otherwise
  provided in this section, water-closets, bath and shower  rooms  may  be
  ventilated  by  windows  or  mechanically  ventilated  as  prescribed in
  section one hundred seventy-one.
    2. In transiently occupied dwellings there shall be on each  story  at
  least two water-closet compartments for the first twenty living rooms or
  fraction  thereof  and  at least one additional water-closet compartment
  for each additional fifteen living rooms or fraction thereof.
    a. The water-closet compartments on each  story  shall  be  accessible
  from every such living room on the story. Such water-closet compartments
  may be placed in one or more general toilet rooms.
    b.  Every  water-closet  compartment  of  a  general toilet containing
  water-closet compartments permitted under this subdivision shall have  a
  window  opening  to  the  outer air of the dimensions, kind and location
  required in a living room of the same area by section one hundred three,
  or be provided with a system of mechanical ventilation as prescribed  in
  subdivision six of section one hundred seventy-one.

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