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N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 27-2004

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N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 27-2004
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23. Dining space shall mean a space with fifty-five square feet or less of floor area, which has such permanent fittings as the department requires, located off a living room, foyer or kitchen. A dining space includes a dining bay, dining recess or dinette.

24. Foyer shall mean a space within a dwelling unit in a multiple dwelling used as an entrance hall from the public hall, which is not a living room when its floor area does not exceed either: (a) ten percent of the total floor area of the dwelling unit; or (b) twenty percent of such floor area, if every living room is at least twenty percent larger than the required minimum room size.

25. Kitchen shall mean a living room used for cooking with eighty square feet or more of floor area.

26. Kitchenette shall mean a space used for cooking with less than eighty square feet of floor area.

27. Dormitory shall mean a space occupied for sleeping purposes by three or more persons who are not members of a family maintaining a common household in:

a. A lodging house, except for an apartment occupied solely by an owner, janitor or superintendent; or

b. A college or school dormitory legally recorded and classified in the department prior to May fifteenth, nineteen hundred fifty-four, or converted to such use prior to April thirtieth, nineteen hundred fifty-six; or

c. A dwelling owned and operated by a religious, charitable or educational organization for the purposes enumerated in section 27-2077 of article four of subchapter three of this chapter; or

d. A dwelling owned, operated or used for the purposes enumerated in section 27-2077 of article four of subchapter three of this chapter.

28. Premises shall mean land and improvements or appurtenances or any part thereof.