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Tit. V, Ch. 13-A. RESTAURANTS AND EATING HOUSES. §§ 1064-1094-al.
CHAPTER 12.
FIRE ESCAPES.
SECTION 1064. Class of escapes — mandatory and permissible
kinds—stairways.
1 Hotels, lodging houses, tenements, apartment buildings, schools,
2 retail or department stores, seminaries, and college buildings, office
3 buildings, hospitals, asylums, opera houses, theaters, assembly halls
4 and factories required to be equipped by law shall be equipped with
5 escapes of class "A" or class "B". All other buildings and structures
6 required to be equipped with fire escapes shall be equipped with some
7 one or more of said classes of fire escapes.
8 Class "C" shall not be used on any building over three stories in
9 height in which more than five persons are at any one time allowed
10 upon any one of the floors above said third story nor where any of
11 the persons allowed upon any floor above the third story are females
12 or minors ; provided, however, the commissioner of the bureau of labor
13 statistics may under peculiar conditions and where the hazards are
14 not great permit fire escapes of class "C" to be used on buildings of
15 more than three stories, but when ladder fire escapes are permitted
16 on buildings more than three stories in height the ladders thereof must
17 offset at the platforms and not be continuous from one story to the
18 next.
19 Said commissioner may under peculiar cpnditions, and where the
20 hazard is not great, permit fire escapes of class "C" or other approved
21 means of escape to be used on an ordinary dwelling of not more than
22 three stories in height and temporarily used in part for lodging pur-
23 poses, when not more than five persons none of whom are under six-
24 teen years of age occupy the third floor.
25 Where stairways not less than forty-four inches in clear width
26 are provided they shall be taken as the equivalent of two or more
27 single stairways in proportion to their width, provided the means of
28 escape and efficiency and safety of said escapes are not thereby dimin-
29 ished.
[S. S., '15, § 4999-a9; 39 G. A., ch. 241, § 1.]
CHAPTER 13-A.
RESTAURANTS AND EATING HOUSES.
SECTION 1094-al. Restaurant defined.
1 Every building or structure kept, used, advertised as or held out
2 to the public to be à restaurant, cafe, cafeteria, dining hall, lunch
3 counter, lunch wagon or place where food is served for pay, to the
4 public, except those used not more than one day in any week by
5 churches, fraternal societies and civic organizations, shall for the pur-
6 poses of this chapter be defined to be a restaurant and wherever the
7 word "restaurant" shall occur in this chapter it shall be construed to
8 mean and cover every such place as is described in this section.