N.Y. Multiple Residence Law § 202: Egress from dwellings

§ 202. Egress from dwellings. 1. Nursing and convalescent homes, homes

for the aged and boarding and nursery schools, two stories in height

erected after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-seven, child caring

institutions, two stories in height erected after July first, nineteen

hundred sixty-two, and all dwellings three or more stories in height

shall have at least two fire-stairs. Except as otherwise specifically

provided in subdivision four, such fire-stairs shall extend from the

entrance story to the roof and be equipped with fireproof self-closing

doors glazed with wire glass and without transoms. No windows shall be

required in such stairs, but any openings in exterior walls, except any

window openings facing a street or yard, shall be equipped with

fireproof frame and sash and glazed with wire glass.

2. Every such fire-stair shall have an entrance on the entrance story

from a street or an entrance at the side or rear of the dwelling from a

yard, court or passageway having continuous, safe and unobstructed

access to a street. Every required stair and stair-landing shall be at

least three feet eight inches in clear width.

3. There shall be horizontal access from every apartment to at least

two fire-stairs, at least one of which shall be within one hundred feet

horizontally in the line of travel from a required means of egress from

such apartment.

4. A dwelling as a rule transiently or temporarily occupied, in which

at least eighty per centum of the living rooms above the second story

open directly upon a public hall without any intervening foyer or

private hall, shall have at least two fire-stairs accessible at each

story from each room through a public hall. Such fire-stairs shall be so

located that at least one fire-stair shall be not more than one hundred

twenty-five feet along the line of travel from the means of egress from

any living room. Every such fire-stair shall have a clear width of at

least three feet eight inches. Two such fire-stairs shall be deemed

adequate for seventy living rooms on any story.

5. Nursing and convalescent homes, homes for the aged, and boarding

and nursery schools, one story in height, erected after July first,

nineteen hundred fifty-seven, and child caring institutions, one story

in height, erected after July first, nineteen hundred sixty-two, shall

have at least two means of egress from the dwelling accessible to every

apartment providing free and unobstructed egress by a door opening to

the outer air.