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What is NYC AC § 10-101?

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This section requires owners and operators of various types of buildings, including hotels, tenement houses, and public facilities, to establish means for communicating alarms of accidents or dangers to the police department as prescribed by the police commissioner. Applies to building owners and operators of public and private establishments.

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§ 10-101 Communication of alarms.

AC § 10-101

The owners and proprietors of all manufactories, hotels, tenement houses, apartment houses, office buildings, boarding and lodging-houses, warehouses, stores and offices, theatres and music halls, and the authorities or persons having charge of all hospitals and asylums, and of the public schools and other public buildings, churches and other places where large numbers of persons are congregated for purposes of worship, instruction or amusement, and all piers, bulkheads, wharves, pier sheds, bulkhead sheds or other waterfront structures, shall provide such means of communicating alarms of accident or danger to the police department, as the police commissioner may prescribe.

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