203 - Washrooms, washing facilities and waterclosets for elevator employees.

§  203.  Washrooms,  washing  facilities and waterclosets for elevator  employees. There shall be provided and maintained for  the  use  of  all  persons  employed  in  operating freight or passenger elevators adequate  and convenient washrooms or washing facilities and a  sufficient  number  of  suitable  and convenient waterclosets. Where the elevator is used in  or in  connection  with  a  factory  or  mercantile  establishment,  the  provisions  of sections two hundred and ninety-three and two hundred and  ninety-five  shall  apply  to   wash-rooms,   washing   facilities   and  waterclosets  for  employees  mentioned  in  this section; and where the  elevator is used in any other building or place, the provisions of  such  sections   three   hundred  and  seventy-eight  and  three  hundred  and  eighty-one shall apply to washrooms, washing facilities and waterclosets  for employees engaged in the care, custody or operation of  an  elevator  in  such  building or place. For the purpose of so applying the sections  last referred to, the term "mercantile establishment"  as  therein  used  shall  be deemed to mean and include a building in which the elevator is  located or with which it connects.