Section 173. Heating  


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  • Every new dwelling shall be provided with heat in all
      living rooms sufficient to maintain the minimum temperatures required by
      local law, ordinances, rules or  regulation,  or  by  the  local  public
      health  officer, provided, however, that such minimum temperature shall,
      notwithstanding the provisions  of  subdivision  one  of  section  three
      hundred  twenty-nine  of this chapter, be sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit
      during the hours between six o'clock in the morning and ten  o'clock  in
      the   evening   during   the   months  between  October  first  and  May
      thirty-first, whenever the outdoor temperature  falls  below  fifty-five
      degrees Fahrenheit.