CABARET

The term cabaret shall mean any room, place or space in which any musical entertainment, singing, dancing or other similar amusement is permitted in connection with an eating and drinking establishment.
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CABLEWAY

A power operated system for moving loads in a generally horizontal direction in which the loads are conveyed on an overhead cable, track or carriage. ...more

CAR DOOR OR GATE

As applied to an elevator, shall mean the sliding portion of the car that closes the opening giving access to the car. ...more

CAR DOOR OR GATE SWITCH

As applied to an elevator, shall mean an electrical device, the function of which is to prevent operation of the driving machine by the normal operating device unless the car door or gate is in the closed position. ...more

CAR-SWITCH OPERATION

Operation of an elevator wherein the movement and direction of travel of the car are directly and solely under the control of the operator by means of a manually operated car switch or of continuous-pressure buttons in the car.
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CASING-OFF

The elimination of the frictional forces between a portion of a pile and the surrounding soil by use of a sleeve between the pile and the soil. ...more

CATCH PLATFORM

A platform or other construction projecting from the face of a building, supported therefrom, and used to intercept the fall of objects and to protect individuals and property from falling debris. ...more

CELLAR

A STORY partly or wholly underground, but having one-half or more of its clear height (measured from finished floor to finished ceiling) below the CURB LEVEL; except that where the CURB LEVEL has not been legally established, or where every part of the building is set back more than twenty-five feet from a street line, the height shall be measured from the adjoining grade elevation. Cellars shall not be counted as STORIES in measuring the height of buildings. (See BASEMENT.) ...more

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE

A certificate stating that materials meet specified standards or that work was done in compliance with APPROVED CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS and other applicable provisions of law and with respect to specified service equipment, a certificate issued by the department authorizing the operation of such equipment. ...more

CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY

A Document issued by the Department of Buildings certifying the permitted Legal Occupancy and Use of a Building and each of it's floors. ...more

CHAIN-DRIVE MACHINE

As applied to an elevator, shall mean an indirect-drive machine having a chain as the connecting means. ...more

CHARGING CHUTE (INCINERATOR)

An enclosed vertical passage through which refuse is fed to an incinerator. ...more

CHARGING GATE (INCINERATOR)

A gate in an incinerator used to control the flow of combustion gases into the CHARGING CHUTE and the entry of refuse into the combustion chamber. ...more

CHARTER

The New York city charter. ...more

CHIMNEY

A vertical enclosure containing one or more flues used to remove hot gases from burning fuel, refuse, or from industrial processes. ...more

CHIMNEY CONNECTOR

A pipe or metal breeching that connects combustion equipment to a CHIMNEY. ...more

CITY

The City of New York. ...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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CLOSED SHAFT

A shaft enclosed at the top. ...more