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What is NYC FGC § 303.3?

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This section outlines the prohibited locations for the installation of appliances, specifying that they cannot be placed in sleeping rooms, bathrooms, or similar spaces. Exceptions are provided for certain direct-vent appliances and specific installations that meet volume criteria. Applies to building owners installing gas appliances.

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303.3 Prohibited locations.

FGC § 303.3

Appliances shall not be located in sleeping rooms, bathrooms, toilet rooms, storage closets or surgical rooms, or in a space that opens only into such rooms or spaces. Exceptions: 1. In rooms other than those used for sleeping purposes, direct-vent appliances that obtain all combustion air directly from the outdoors and installed in accordance with the conditions of the listing and the manufacturer's instructions.

2.In rooms other than those used for sleeping purposes, vented room heaters, wall furnaces, vented decorative appliances, vented gas fireplaces, vented gas fireplace heaters and decorative appliances for installation in vented solid fuel-burning fireplaces that are installed in rooms that meet the required volume criteria of Section 304.5.

3.In rooms other than those used for sleeping purposes, appliances installed in an enclosure in which all combustion air is taken from the outdoors, in accordance with Section 304.6. Access to such enclosure shall be through a solid weather-stripped door, equipped with an approved self-closing device.

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