by the owner, or shall be painted a light color by him and so maintained. 71. Kalsomining and Painting. In all tenement houses, the health department or other department designated by municipal ordinance for that purpose may require the walls and ceilings of every room that does not open directly on the street to be kalsomined white or painted with white paint, when necessary to improve the lighting of such rooms, and may require this to be renewed as often as may be necessary. 72. Using Wall Paper.-No wall paper shall be placed upon a wall or ceiling of any tenement house unless all wall paper shall be first removed therefrom and said wall and ceiling thoroughly cleaned. 73. Garbage Receptacles.-The owner of every tenement house shall provide for said building proper and suitable conveniences or receptacles for ashes, rubbish, garbage, refuse and other matter. 74. Keeping Stock Prohibited. No horse, cow, calf, swine, goat or sheep, chickens or poultry shall be kept in a tenement house, or within twenty feet thereof on the same lot, and no tenement house or the lot or premises thereof, shall be used for a lodging house or stable, or for the storage or handling of rags. 75. Janitor for Tenements of More than Eight Families. Whenever there shall be more than eight families living in any tenement house, in which the owner does not reside, there shall be a janitor, housekeeper, or some responsible person who shall reside in said house and have charge of same, as the department charged with the enforcement of this act shall so require. 76. Four Hundred Feet of Air for Each Person.-No room in any tenement house shall be so overcrowded that there shall be afforded less than four hundred cubic feet of air to each person occupying such room. No tenement house 77. Cannot Store Combustibles. or any part thereof, nor of the lot upon which it is situated, shall be used as a place of storage, keeping or handling of any combustible article, except under such conditions as may be prescribed by the department of any incorporated town, incorporated city, or city and county to which this act applies, which are now charged with the enforcement of laws, ordinances, or regulations, relating to the erection of buildings, the protection of public health, and police and fire protection. No tenement house nor any part thereof, nor of the lot upon which it is situated, shall be used as a place of storage, keeping or handling of any article dangerous or detrimental to life or health, nor for the storage, keeping or handling of feed, hay, straw, excelsior, cotton, paper stock, feathers or rags. 78. No Bakery in Any Except Fireproof Tenement.No bakery, and no place of business in which fat is boiled, shall be maintained in any tenement house which is not fireproof throughout, unless the ceilings and side walls of said bakery or place where fat boiling is done are made safe by fireproof materials around the same, and there shall be no openings either by door or window, dumb waiter shafts or otherwise, between said bakery or said place where fat is boiled in any tenement house and the other parts of said building. 79. Windows Where Paint Is Stored.-All transoms and windows opening into halls from any portion of a tenement house where paint, oil, spirituous liquors or drugs are stored for the purpose of sale or otherwise, shall be glazed with wire glass or they shall be removed and closed up as solidly as the rest of the wall. And all doors leading into such hall from such portion shall be made fireproof. 80. Scuttles. All scuttles and pent houses and all stairs or ladders leading thereto shall be easily accessible to all tenants of the building, and kept free from incumbrance, and ready for use at all times. No scuttle and no pent house door shall at any time be locked with a key, but either may be fastened on the inside by movable bolts or hooks. 81. Outside Windows.-No room in a tenement house erected prior to the passage of this act shall hereafter be occupied for living purposes, unless it shall have a window opening directly upon the street, or upon a yard not less than ten feet deep, or above the roof of an adjoining building, or upon a court of not less than twenty square feet in area, open to the sky without roof or skylight, unless such room is located on the top floor and is adequately lighted and ventilated by a skylight opening directly to the outer air, or is on the top floor and has a window opening upon a court not less than ten square feet in area and not more than three feet below the top of the walls of said court. Every room which does not comply with the above provisions shall be provided with a sash window, opening into an adjoining room in the same apartment which latter room either opens directly on the street or on a yard of the above dimensions, or itself connected by a similar sash window or series of windows with such an outer room. Said sash window shall be a vertically sliding pulley-hung sash not less than three feet by five feet between stop beads, both halves being made so as to readily open, and shall be glazed with translucent glass, and so far as possible it shall be in line with windows in outer rooms opening on the street or yard as to afford a maximum of light and ventilation. In the case of rooms located in apartments that extend through from the street to the yard, thus ensuring thorough ventilation, where such rooms are already provided either with windows, window openings, glass sliding doors, or large alcove openings to adjoining rooms, but do not comply with all the provisions of this section, the health department or other department designated by municipal ordinance for that purpose when satisfied that no material improvement in the light and ventilation of such rooms can be had that would warrant the providing of new windows of the size and kind specified, may permit the occupancy of such rooms for living purposes in the following cases, provided such improvements or alterations as may be practicable and as are required by said department are made by the owner: Where there is an existing window or window opening from such interior room to an adjoining room, and such window or opening is not less than ten square feet in area. Where there is an existing glass sliding door or an alcove opening of sufficient size from such interior room to an adjoining room. Where rooms located on the top floor open upon a court of less size than twenty square feet but such rooms have sufficient light and ventilation. Where owing to the size of partitions, arrangement of rooms, location of fixed closets or stairs, or the interposition of air shafts, it is impracticable to provide a window of the required size, and a window as large as practicable is provided. 82. Glass Doors. In all now existing tenement houses whenever a public hall on any floor is not light enough in the day time to permit a person to read in every part thereof without the aid of artificial light, the wooden panels in the doors located at the ends of the public halls and opening into rooms shall be removed, and ground glass or other translucent glass or wire glass panels of an aggregate area of not less than four square feet for each door shall be substituted; or said public hall may be lighted by a window at the end thereof, with the plane of the window at right angles to the axis of the said hall, said window opening upon the street or upon a yard or court. 83. Woodwork Enclosing Water-closets and Sinks.In all now existing tenement houses, the woodwork enclosing all water-closets shall be removed from the front of said closets and the space underneath the seat shall be left open. The floor and other surface beneath and around the closet shall be maintained in good order and repair, and if of wood shall be kept well painted with light colored paint. In all now existing tenement houses the woodwork enclosing sinks located in public halls or stairs shall be removed, and the space underneath sink shall be left open. The floors and wall surfaces beneath and around the sink shall be maintained in good order and repair, and if of wood shall be well painted. 84. Window at Bottom of Shaft. In all now existing tenement houses there shall be at the bottom of every shaft or inner court, a door or window giving sufficient access to each shaft or court to enable it to be properly cleaned out. 85. Sinks and Vaults to Be Replaced by Individual Water-closets. In all tenement houses erected prior to the passage of this act, where a connection with a sewer is possible, all school sinks, privy vaults or other similar receptacles used to receive fecal matter, urine or sewage, shall be completely removed and the place where they are located properly disinfected under the direction of the health department or other department designated by municipal ordinance for that purpose. Such appliances shall be replaced by individual water-closets of durable non-absorbent material, properly sewer-connected, and with individual traps, and properly connected flush tanks providing an ample flush of water to thoroughly cleanse the bowl. Each water-closet shall be located in a compartment completely separated from every other water-closet, and such compartment shall contain a window of not less than three square feet in area opening directly to the street, or yard, or on a court of the minimum size prescribed in this act. The floors of the water-closet compartment shall be waterproof as provided in this act. Where water-closets are placed in the yard to replace school sinks or privy vaults, the structure containing the water-closets shall not exceed ten feet in height; such structure shall be provided with a ventilating skylight in the roof, of adequate size, and each water-closet shall be located in a compartment separated completely from every other water-closet. Proper and adequate means for lighting the structure at night shall be provided. There shall be provided at least one water-closet |