a tenement or lodging-house, every room used, let, or occupied by any person or persons for sleeping shall have at least one window, with a movable sash, having an opening of not less than twelve square feet, admitting light and air directly from the public street or the yard of the said house, unless sufficient light and ventilation shall be otherwise provided, in a manner and upon a plan approved by the department of buildings. SECTION 57. Open fireplaces in tenement and lodging-houses. Every such house erected or converted after June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall have adequate chimneys running through every floor, with an open fireplace or grate, or place for a stove, properly connected with one of said chimneys, for every family and set of apartments. It shall have proper conveniences and receptacles for ashes and rubbish. It shall have the floor of the cellar properly cemented, so as to be water-tight. The halls on each floor shall open directly to the external air, with suitable windows, and shall have no room or other obstruction at the end, unless sufficient light or ventilation is otherwise provided for said halls, in a manner approved by the commissioner of the department of buildings. It shall have Ridgewood, or other water furnished at one or more places in such house, or in the yard thereof, as the health commissioner may designate, so that the same may be adequate and reasonably convenient for the use of the occupants thereof. Definitions. SECTION 58. A tenement-house, within the meaning of this act, shall be taken to mean and include every house, building, or portion thereof which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or is occupied as the home or residence of three families or more living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon a floor, so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets or privies, or some of them. A lodging-house shall be taken to mean and include any house or building, or portion thereof, in which persons are harbored or received or lodged for hire for a single night, or for less than a week at one time, or any part of which is let for any person to sleep in for any term less than a week. A cellar shall be taken to mean and include every basement or lower story of any building or house of which one-half or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is below the level of the street adjoining. SECTION 59. Cellars and ventilation, subject to regulation of health commissioner. The health commissioner shall have authority to make other regulations as to cellars and as to ventilation, consistent with the foregoing, where he shall be satisfied that such regulations will secure equally well the health of the occupants. SECTION 60. Ash-holes or ash-houses. All ash-holes or ash-houses within the said district of the city of Brooklyn shall be built of brick or stone, without the use of wood in any part thereof. SECTION 61. Authority to enter premises to make inspections. The commissioner of buildings, the inspectors of buildings and the other employes of said department are authorized and empowered to enter upon any lands or buildings for the purpose of making inspections and carrying out the provisions of this title. The commissioner of buildings shall examine, or cause to be examined, the dwelling-houses and other buildings in the city, for the purpose of ascertaining all violations of the laws and ordinances for the more effectual prevention of fires, and also to inspect the fireplaces, hearths, chimneys, stoves and pipes thereto, ovens, boilers, heaters and all chemical apparatus, receptacles and places for the deposit of ashes, or other things and substances which, in his opinion, may be dangerous in causing or promoting fire or dangerous to firemen or occupants in case of fire. Upon finding anything defective or dangerous, the owner or occupant, by a written or printed notice, shall be directed to alter, remove or amend the same, in such a manner and within such reasonable time as the commissioner may deem proper. PART 3. THE STATUTORY PROVISIONS REGULATING THE CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS IN THE MUNICIPALITY HERETOFORE KNOWN AS LONG ISLAND CITY, CONSTITUTING TITLE 7 OF CHAPTER 461 OF THE LAWS OF 1871, CONTINUED IN FORCE BY SECTION 646 OF GREATER NEW YORK CHARTER, ante. CHAPTER 461. TITLE VII. SECTION 1. The common council, for the purpose of guarding against calamities by fire, shall have the power, by ordinance, from time to time, to prescribe the limits of the said city, within which wooden buildings shall not be erected or placed without the permission of said common council, and to direct that all or any buildings within the limits prescribed, shall be made or constructed of stone, brick or metal, with partition walls, fire proofs and brick, stone or metallic cornices, and eave troughs, under such penalties as may be prescribed by the common council, not exceeding one hundred dollars for any one offense, and the further sum of twenty-five dollars for each and every week any building so prohibited shall be continued. § 2. Every building hereafter erected, contrary to the foregoing provisions, or to any ordinance made in pursuance of the foregoing section, is hereby declared to be a common nuisance, and may be abated and removed as such by the direction of the common council of said city. But the common council shall have the power, in their discretion, on an application to them for that purpose, to authorize the owner of any building constructed of wood within said fire limits, to make additions and repairs thereto of wood, provided such additions shall not be of sufficient size to constitute a dwelling-house, workshop or store, if the mainbuilding should be removed or exceed in front twelve feet in width. APPENDIX VI. THE PROVISIONS OF THE NEW YORK CITY CONSOLIDATION ACT RELATING TO THE CITY COURT OF NEW YORK CONTINUED IN FORCE BY § 1345 OF THE GREATER NEW YORK CHARTER, ante. [The provisions of the statute which were a re-enactment of the Code of Civil Procedure are not reprinted, but references are made to the sections of the Code from which they were taken.] LAWS 1882, Ch. 410. § 1205. City court, a court of record. Code of Civ. Pro., § 2, subd. 9. § 1206. Justices' terms of office. Vacancies. Salaries. § 1206. The term of office of the justices shall be six years. The justices in office when this act shall take effect shall continue therein until the expiration of the terms for which they were respectively elected, subject to removal in cases now established by law. Two justices shall be elected at the general election to be held in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and the same number at the general election in each second year thereafter. Any vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the governor, and the person so appointed shall hold the office until the commencement of the political year next succeeding the first annual election after the happening of the vacancy at which such officer could be by law elected. The annual salary of each of the justices is ten thousand dollars. L. 1870, ch 582, § 2 (Comp. 1301); L. 1852, ch. 389, § 3 (Comp. 1300). Superseded in part by Charter, § 1346, ante. Clerk. Salary not to be diminished during continuance in office. § 1207. The clerk shall receive an annual compensation, which shall not be diminished during his term of office and which shall be in lieu of all fees and perquisites. L. 1852, ch. 389, § 5 (Comp. 1300). § 1208. Jurisdiction. Code of Civ. Pro., § 315. § 1209. Id.; limitations upon. Code of Civ. Pro., § 316. § 1210. Marine causes. Code of Civ. Pro., § 317. § 1211. Summary proceedings. Code of Civ. Pro., § 2234. § 1212. No power to naturalize aliens. Code of Civ. Pro., § 318. § 1213. Former jurisdiction continued. Code of Civ. Pro., § 4. § 1214. Removal of actions to supreme court. Code of Civ. Pro., § 319. § 1215. Court to consist of six justices. Hours of attendance. Code of Civ. Pro.., § 320. § 1216. Removal of justices for gross misconduct or neglect. Code of Civ. Pro., § 321 § 1217. Chief justice. Designation of duties. Code of Civ. Pro., § 322. § 1218. Rules may be made by justices. Code of Civ. Pro., § 323. § 1219. Terms to be designated and held. Code of Civ. Pro., § 324. § 1220. Additional parts. Appointments to be published. Code of Civ. Pro., § 325. § 1221. Oaths, acknowledgments, etc., may be taken by justices. Code of Civ. Pro., § 326. § 1222. Justices only to make orders, etc. Code of Civ. Pro., § 327. Code of Civ. Pro., § 329. Code of Civ. Pro., § 330. § 1226. Id.; fees. Code of Civ. Pro., § 331. § 1227. Id.; to appoint stenographers. Code of Civ. Pro., 332. § 1228. Id.; to appoint interpreter. Code of Civ. Pro., § 333. § 1229. Id.; interpreter guilty of perjury if he interprets falsely. Code o. Civ. Pro., § 334. § 1230. Id.; clerk to appoint court attendants. Code of Civ. Pro., § 335. § 1231. Clerk and court attaches to receive no compensation beyond salaries. Code of Civ. Pro., § 336. § 1232. Officers may be suspended for cause by justices. Code of Civ. Pro., § 337. § 1233. Mandates; where may be executed. Code of Civ. Pro., § 338. § 1234. Id.; by whom to be executed. Code of Civ. Pro., § 339. § 1235. Security for costs from non-resident plaintiff. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3268. § 1236. Warrant in action to foreclose lien upon chattel. Code of Civ. Pro., §§ 1737, 1738. § 1237. Summons; requisites. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3165. § 1238. Complaint; time to demand service of. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3166. § 1239. Justification of bail and exception to sureties. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3168. § 1240. Notices; within what time to be served. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3161. § 1241. Notices of trial and notes of issue. Code of § 1242. Decision; within what time to be filed. §3173. § 1243. Counter-claim. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3174. § 1244. References. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3172. Civ. Pro., § 3162. § 1245. Verdict may be partly remitted. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3176. § 1246. Imprisoned debtor physically unable to endure confinement. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3163. § 1247. Substituted service of summons. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3170. § 1248. Attachment, when granted. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3169. § 1249. Id.; clerk's fee on obtaining. At the time of issuing any attachment or warrant, the party applying therefor shall pay to the said clerk the sum of one dollar; and if a trial shall be had in the action so commenced the plaintiff therein shall pay to the said clerk an additional sum of two dollars and fifty cents, which said sums shall be received in lieu of all other fees now required by law, to be paid the said clerk. L. 1857, ch. 259 (Comp. 1307). § 1250. Id.; perishable property, how sold. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3175. § 1251. Arrest, in marine cases. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3177. § 1252. Id.; order of arrest, what to require. Code of Civ. Pro., § 3178. |