{"data":{"id":"us-ny/n.y.-multiple-residence-law-215","jurisdiction":"us-ny","citation":"N.Y. Multiple Residence Law § 215","heading":"Interior water-closets and bathrooms","body":"§ 215. Interior water-closets and bathrooms. 1. Except as otherwise\nprovided in this section, water-closets, bath and shower rooms may be\nventilated by windows or mechanically ventilated as prescribed in\nsection one hundred seventy-one.\n  2. In transiently occupied dwellings there shall be on each story at\nleast two water-closet compartments for the first twenty living rooms or\nfraction thereof and at least one additional water-closet compartment\nfor each additional fifteen living rooms or fraction thereof.\n  a. The water-closet compartments on each story shall be accessible\nfrom every such living room on the story. Such water-closet compartments\nmay be placed in one or more general toilet rooms.\n  b. Every water-closet compartment of a general toilet containing\nwater-closet compartments permitted under this subdivision shall have a\nwindow opening to the outer air of the dimensions, kind and location\nrequired in a living room of the same area by section one hundred three,\nor be provided with a system of mechanical ventilation as prescribed in\nsubdivision six of section one hundred seventy-one.","path":["Multiple Residence Law","Article 6. Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings","Title 2. Sanitation"],"source_url":"https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/laws/MRE/215","current_through":"2026-09-11","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:32:45Z","sha256":"1041344525f1420fa263a242a00bfebcdf50be3438469768639f924a8b998843","source_id":"us-ny","stale":false,"prev":"us-ny/n.y.-multiple-residence-law-207","next":"us-ny/n.y.-multiple-residence-law-250"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}