Section 64. Lighting; gas meters; gas and oil appliances

1. Every multiple
  dwelling  after  July  first,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-five,  shall  be
  adequately  equipped  throughout all stories and cellars for lighting by
  gas  or  electricity,  with  proper  fixtures  at  every  light  outlet,
  including  lighting for all means of egress leading to the street, yards
  or courts, and for every room, water-closet compartment, bathroom, stair
  or public hall.
    2. No gas meter, other  than  a  replacement  meter,  installed  in  a
  multiple  dwelling  after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-five, shall
  be located in any boiler room  or  other  room  or  space  containing  a
  heating  boiler, nor in any stair hall, nor in any public hall above the
  cellar or above the lowest story if there is no cellar, except  that  in
  any  multiple  dwelling  where there is an existing gas meter located in
  any boiler room or other room or space containing a heating boiler,  one
  additional  gas  meter  may be installed in such room or space, provided
  such additional gas meter is installed adjacent  to  such  existing  gas
  meter  and is used in conjunction with the supply of gas for a gas-fired
  heating boiler or a gas-fired water heater used as a central  source  of
  supply  of  heat  or hot water for the tenants residing in such multiple
  dwelling. Such additional gas meter may be installed only upon condition
  that space heaters  or  hot  water  appliances  in  the  apartments  are
  eliminated.  For  the purposes of this subdivision, the term "gas meter"
  shall not include any instrument, device or apparatus  used  to  measure
  the  consumption of gas where no gas, manufactured, natural or mixed, is
  contained in or flows through  such  instrument,  device  or  apparatus,
  provided  that  such  instrument, device or apparatus is approved by and
  installed under the supervision of the city agency vested  by  law  with
  jurisdiction  to  inspect  and  test  wiring and appliances for electric
  light, heat and power and provided further that  the  location  of  such
  instrument, device or apparatus is approved by the department.
    3.  It  shall be unlawful to place, use, or to maintain in a condition
  intended, arranged or designed for use, any gas-fired cooking appliance,
  laundry stove, heating stove, range or water heater  or  combination  of
  such  appliances in any room or space used for living or sleeping in any
  new or existing multiple dwelling unless such room or space has a window
  opening to the outer air or such gas appliance is vented  to  the  outer
  air.  All automatically operated gas appliances shall be equipped with a
  device which shall shut off automatically the gas  supply  to  the  main
  burners  when  the  pilot light in such appliance is extinguished. A gas
  range or the cooking portion of a gas  appliance  incorporating  a  room
  heater  shall  not  be  deemed  an automatically operated gas appliance.
  However, burners in gas ovens and broilers which can be  turned  on  and
  off or ignited by non-manual means shall be equipped with a device which
  shall  shut  off  automatically the gas supply to those burners when the
  operation of such non-manual means fails. All gas  appliances  shall  be
  connected  directly  to the gas supply by means of rigid piping or other
  approved connectors or connections of incombustible materials. All  such
  automatically  operated  gas appliances and devices shall be approved by
  the local agency empowered to grant the same.
    4. It shall be  unlawful  to  use,  or  to  maintain  in  a  condition
  intended,  arranged  or  designed  for use, in any multiple dwelling any
  oil-burning equipment for heating or cooking, unless such equipment  has
  been  approved  for  design,  manufacture  and  appropriate  safety  and
  ventilating requirements by the local board of  standards  and  appeals;
  provided,  however, that in a city having a population of one million or
  more, approval of such equipment for use in any multiple dwelling  shall
  be  made  by  the commissioner of buildings or the fire commissioner, as
  appropriate, in accordance with local law.

    5. All appliances  in  use  after  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred
  fifty-five,  shall  conform  to the provisions of subdivisions three and
  four of this section except that appliances now in use shall conform  to
  such   provisions  not  later  than  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred
  fifty-six.