APARTMENT

That part of a multiple dwelling consisting of one or more rooms containing at least one bathroom and arranged to be occupied by the members of a family, which room or rooms are separated and set apart from all other rooms within a multiple dwelling. ...more

BOARDER

(ROOMER, LODGER) An individual living within a household who pays a consideration for such residence and does not occupy such space as an incident of employment therein. ...more

CLASS A MULTIPLE DWELLING

A multiple dwelling which is occupied, as a rule, for permanent residence purposes. This class shall include tenements, flat houses, maisonette apartments, apartment houses, apartment hotels, bachelor apartments, studio apartments, duplex apartments, kitchenette apartments, garden-type maisonette dwelling projects, and all other multiple dwellings except Class B multiple dwellings.

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CLASS B MULTIPLE DWELLING

A multiple dwelling which is occupied, as a rule transiently, as the more or less temporary abode of individuals or families who are lodged with or without meals. This class shall include hotels, lodging houses, rooming houses, boarding houses, boarding schools, furnished room houses, lodgings, club houses, college and school dormitories and dwellings designed as private dwellings but occupied by one or two families with five or more transient boarders, roomers or lodgers in one household.

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CONDIMINIUM

A form of property ownership in which units are individually owned and the owners acquire shares in an association that owns and cares for common areas. ...more

CONVERTED DWELLING

A dwelling which

(a) was erected before 4/18/1929, to be occupied by one or two families living independently of each other and subsequently occupied as a multiple dwelling, or

(b) is three stories or less in height erected after 4/18/1929, to be occupied by one or two families living independently of each other and subsequently occupied by not more than three families in all, with a maximum occupancy of two families on each floor in a two STORY building and one family on each floor in a three STORY building, in compliance with the provisions of article six of the MDL, including section 170-a of said article. A converted dwelling occupied as a class A multiple dwelling is a class A converted dwelling; every other converted dwelling is a class B converted dwelling.

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DWELLING

Any building occupied in whole or in part as the temporary or permanent home or residence of one or more FAMILIES. ...more

FAMILY

A single individual; or two or more individuals related by blood or marriage or who are parties to a domestic partnership, and living together and maintaining a common household, with not more than four BOARDERS, ROOMERS, or LODGERS; or a group of not more than four individuals, not necessarily related by blood, marriage or because they are parties to a domestic partnership, and maintaining a common household. (See also Zoning Definition of FAMILY)
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FOYER

A space within an Apartment or dwelling unit in a multiple dwelling used as an entrance hall from the public hall, which is not a living room when its floor area does not exceed either: (a) ten percent of the total floor area of the dwelling unit; or (b) twenty percent of such floor area, if every living room is at least twenty percent larger than the required minimum room size. ...more

HOTEL

An inn having thirty or more sleeping rooms. ...more

LIVING ROOM

A room which is not a public hall, public vestibule, public room or other public part of a dwelling. Every room used for sleeping purposes shall be deemed a living room. Dining bays and dinettes fifty-five square feet or less in floor area, foyers, water-closet compartments, bathrooms, cooking spaces less than fifty-nine square feet in area, and halls, corridors and passageways entirely within an apartment or suite of rooms shall not be deemed living rooms. ...more

LODGER

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LODGING HOUSE

A MULTIPLE DWELLING, other than a HOTEL, a ROOMING HOUSE or a FURNISHED ROOM HOUSE, in which persons are housed 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. ...more

MULTIPLE DWELLING

A multiple dwelling is a dwelling which is either rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied as the residence or home of three or more families living independently of each other.

On and after 7/1/1955, a multiple dwelling shall also include residential quarters for members or personnel of any hospital staff which are not located in any building used primarily for hospital use provided, however, that any building which was erected, altered or converted prior to 7/1/1955, to be occupied by such members or personnel or is so occupied on such date shall not be subject to the requirements of the applicable chapeter of the Multiple Dwelling Law only so long as it continues to be so occupied provided there are local laws applicable to such building and such building is in compliance with such local laws.

A multiple dwelling shall not be deemed to include a hospital, convent, monastery, asylum or public institution, or a fireproof building used wholly for commercial purposes except for not more than one janitor's apartment and not more than one penthouse occupied by not more than two families. For the purposes of this chapter multiple dwellings are divided into two classes: Class A and Class B. ...more

PERSON

PERSON, for the purposes of article four of subchapter three of this chapter, means any adult or child over the age of four years. The term PERSON as used in subchapters four and five of this code shall include the owner, mortgagee or vendee in possession, assignee of rents, receiver, executor, trustee, lessee, agent or any other person, firm or corporation directly or indirectly in control of a dwelling or part thereof. Whenever a multiple dwelling shall have been declared a public nuisance to any extent pursuant to section 27-2114 of article one of subchapter five of this chapter and such declaration shall have been filed as therein provided, the term "person" shall be deemed to include, in addition to those mentioned hereinabove, all the officers, directors and persons having an interest in more, than ten percent of the issued and outstanding stock of the owner as herein defined, as holder or beneficial owner thereof, if such person be a corporation other, than a banking organization as defined in section two of the banking law, a national banking association, a federal savings and loan association, the mortgage facilities corporation, savings banks life insurance fund, the savings banks retirement system, an authorized insurer as defined in section one hundred seven of the insurance law or a trust company or other corporation organized under the laws of this state all the capital stock of which is owned by at least twenty savings banks or by at least twenty savings and loan associations or a subsidiary corporation all of the capital stock of which is owned by such trust company or other corporation. ...more

PRIVATE DWELLING

1. Any building or structure designed and occupied exclusively for residence purposes by not more than two families.

2. A building designed for and occupied exclusively by one family is a SINGLE FAMILY PRIVATE DWELLING.

3. A building designed for and occupied exclusively by two families is a TWO-FAMILY PRIVATE DWELLING.

4. PRIVATE DWELLINGS shall also be deemed to include a series of one-family or two-family DWELLING UNITS each of which faces or is accessible to a legal street or public thoroughfare provided that each such DWELLING UNIT is equipped as a separate DWELLING UNIT with all essential services, and also provided that each such unit is arranged so that it may be approved as a legal one-family or two-family dwelling. ...more

PUBLIC HALL

A hall, corridor or passageway within a building but outside of all apartments and suites of private rooms. See also: PUBLIC VESTIBULE, PUBLIC ROOM, PUBLIC PART ...more

PUBLIC ROOM OR PUBLIC PART

A PUBLIC ROOM or PUBLIC PART of a dwelling is a space used in common by the occupants of two or more apartments or rooms, or by persons who are not tenants, or exclusively for mechanical equipment of such dwelling or for storage purposes. ...more

ROOMER

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ROOMING HOUSE

ROOMING HOUSE shall mean a CLASS B CONVERTED DWELLING with more than half of the rooms in ROOMING UNITS. ...more