42 01 entrance doors locks and intercommunication systems.
Minimum lock requirement nyc housing front door.
Participants will be able to list requirements for load weighing devices on passenger and freight elevators.
Participants will discuss ansi a10 4 and be able to summarize requirements for personnel hoist cab extensions.
Building entrances must be safe and secure.
K3 to identify retroactive requirements for existing elevators including door lock monitoring requirements.
Dear new york tenant.
Posted by 6 years ago.
Chain and deadbolt are required according to the housing maintenance code administrative code of the city of new york.
There also should be a chain door guard so you can partially open your door per section 27 2043 of the housing maintenance code.
If you live in a building with three or more apartments nyc law requires a deadbolt lock as well as a chain for the interior of the apartment door.
For a biparting door in the emergency breakout mode a door leaf located within a multiple leaf opening shall be exempt from the minimum 32 inch 813 mm single leaf requirement of section 1008 1 1 provided a minimum 32 inch 813 mm clear opening is provided when the two biparting leaves meeting in the center are broken out.
Door jambs stops sills and closers shall not reduce the clear opening to less than six feet six inches.
If your apartment building was built or converted to a multiple dwelling after january 1 1968 it must have automatic self closing and self locking doors at all building entrances.
The minimum nominal door opening height for exit and corridor doors shall be six feet eight inches.
A bulkhead doors and scuttles shall have no key locks and shall not be locked by a key at any time.
There also should be an operating peephole in your entrance door and located in a place that lets you view any person immediately outside the entrance door per section 27 2041 of the housing maintenance code.
Ada is not a model code but a legal requirement for all structures.
According to ada standards all exterior doors must measure at least 32 inches wide when opened to 90 degrees.
These doors must be kept locked at all times except when a lobby attendant is on duty.
D26 20 05 27 2043 locks in dwelling unit doors.
