Section 240. First tier of beams  


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  • 1. In all tenements erected after April
      twelfth, nineteen hundred one, which are five stories or more in height,
      the first floor above the lowest cellar, or,  if  there  be  no  cellar,
      above  the  basement  or other lowest story, shall be fireproof; and all
      exposed portions of any iron or steel beams below the floor arches shall
      be fire-retarded.
        2. In all non-fireproof tenements erected after such  date  which  are
      four stories or less in height, the ceiling of the lowest cellar, or, if
      there  be  no  cellar,  of  the basement or other lowest story, shall be
      fire-retarded or covered with plaster boards at least one-half  inch  in
      thickness, with all joints made true and well pointed.
        3.  In  all old-law tenements which are four stories or more in height
      the ceiling of the cellar, or, if there be no cellar, of the basement or
      other lowest story, shall be fire-retarded.