Section 27-2037
§ 27-2037 Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all
dwellings. The owner shall equip every dwelling for lighting by
electricity. Such owner shall provide and maintain light fixtures to
provide lighting for all public parts in a dwelling, including the means
of egress, for every room, water closet compartment and bathroom in
every dwelling unit, and for every water closet without the dwelling
unit. In addition to required light fixtures, the owner shall install
and maintain such receptacle outlets as may be required by the
electrical code. Except as otherwise provided in this code or in the
electrical code, the owner may substitute an additional receptacle
outlet for a required light fixture in living rooms other than kitchens.
Section 27-2038
§ 27-2038 Electric lighting fixtures required in certain public parts
of dwellings. a. Subject to any stricter minimum lighting requirement
that may be applicable pursuant to the multiple dwelling law, in every
multiple dwelling and tenant-occupied two-family dwelling light from
electric lighting fixtures and daylight shall in the aggregate provide
an illumination level of no less than one foot-candle, measured at the
floor level, throughout all public hallways, stairs, fire stairs, and
fire towers at all times of the day and night and throughout common
laundry rooms at all times that such rooms are occupied. The owner shall
install, position, operate and maintain sufficient electric lighting
fixtures to assure that the required illumination level is maintained.
b. The owner of a multiple dwelling shall keep electric lighting
fixtures on continuously, during the day as well as at night, in every
fire stair and fire tower and in every stairway and public hall with no
window opening on a street, court, yard, space above a setback or shaft
supplying sufficient illumination to maintain the required illumination
level during the daylight hours.
c. Photosensor lighting controls may be used to control electric
lighting fixtures in public halls and stairs according to the amount of
daylight available provided that the level of illumination required by
subdivision a of this section is maintained at all times and the switch
controllers are equipped for fail-safe operation ensuring that if the
sensor or control fails, the lighting levels will be at the levels
required by subdivision a of this section.
d. Automatic, occupant sensor or photosensor lighting controls may be
used to operate lighting fixtures in common laundry rooms, provided that
all of the following conditions are satisfied:
1. the switch controllers are equipped for fail-safe operation
ensuring that if the sensor or control fails, the lighting levels will
be at the levels required by subdivision a of this section;
2. for occupant sensors, the illumination times are set for a maximum
thirty minute duration; and
3. for occupant sensors, the sensor is activated by any occupant
movement in the area served by the lighting fixtures.
e. For the purposes of this section the term "photosensor" means a
device that detects the presence of visible light and the term "occupant
sensor" means a device that detects the presence or absence of people
within an area and causes lighting to be regulated accordingly.
Section 27-2040
§ 27-2040 Lights near entrance ways and in yards and courts of
multiple dwellings. a. The owner of a multiple dwelling shall install
and maintain one or more lights at or near the outside of the front
entrance way of the building which shall in the aggregate provide not
less than one hundred watts incandescent illumination or its equivalent
for a building with a frontage up to twenty-two feet, and two hundred
watts incandescent illumination or its equivalent for a building with a
frontage in excess of twenty-two feet. In the case of a multiple
dwelling with a frontage in excess of twenty-two feet and front entrance
doors with a combined width in excess of five feet, the owner shall
install at least two lights, one on each side of the entrance way, with
an aggregate illumination of three hundred watts incandescent
illumination or its equivalent. If the minimum level of illumination is
maintained, the owner may determine details of location, design and
installation of lighting fixtures, subject, however, to regulations of
the department with respect to the maximum height above or distance from
the entrance way of such fixtures, and the electrical and other safety
of their installation. The lights required by this subdivision shall be
kept burning from sunset on each day to sunrise on the day following.
b. The owner of a multiple dwelling shall install and maintain in
every yard and court one or more lights of at least one hundred watts of
incandescent illumination or its equivalent, in such locations as the
department may prescribe. The lights required by this subdivision shall
be kept burning from sunset on each day to sunrise on the day following.
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