215 - Interior water-closets and bathrooms.

§  215.  Interior  water-closets and bathrooms. 1. Except as otherwise  provided in this section, water-closets, bath and shower  rooms  may  be  ventilated  by  windows  or  mechanically  ventilated  as  prescribed in  section one hundred seventy-one.    2. In transiently occupied dwellings there shall be on each  story  at  least two water-closet compartments for the first twenty living rooms or  fraction  thereof  and  at least one additional water-closet compartment  for each additional fifteen living rooms or fraction thereof.    a. The water-closet compartments on each  story  shall  be  accessible  from every such living room on the story. Such water-closet compartments  may be placed in one or more general toilet rooms.    b.  Every  water-closet  compartment  of  a  general toilet containing  water-closet compartments permitted under this subdivision shall have  a  window  opening  to  the  outer air of the dimensions, kind and location  required in a living room of the same area by section one hundred three,  or be provided with a system of mechanical ventilation as prescribed  in  subdivision six of section one hundred seventy-one.