It shall be unlawful:
A. 
To use electric hot plates, glue pots, soldering irons, etc., on combustible surfaces. Electric hot plates shall not be used in schools, institutional occupancies, rooming or boarding houses, hotels or motels or places of public assembly.
B. 
To have exposed wood lath or exposed wood caused by breaks in plaster walls or ceilings.
C. 
To have an accumulation of paint cans, paint pots, paint rags, etc., in any multiple residence, mercantile, industrial or institutional occupancies.
D. 
To have painters' drop cloths, linseed oil, turpentine, thinners, open cans of paint, brushes soaking in any flammable liquid, etc., except in an approved paint locker or approved storage rooms.
E. 
To operate multiple-residence laundries or laundry equipment when laundry rooms and dryers have an excessive amount of lint and dirt. Gas dryers shall be properly flued or vented.
F. 
To have or erect wooden partitions for storage, etc., in basements of multiple residences. (This includes existing wooden storage bins.)
G. 
To use for storage unused dumbwaiter shafts, unless sealed off at each floor with material of fireproof construction.
H. 
To use dumbwaiter shafts unless shafts are vented to the outside.
I. 
To use coal or oil heaters without first fire-protecting the wood floors under the same and adjacent walls.
A. 
No person shall set on fire or burn any hay, straw, leaves, chips, shavings, refuse, logs, trees, wood or any other combustible substance in any street or on any lot in the City.
B. 
The Fire Commissioner may prohibit any or all burning when such burning is a hazard to life or property.
A. 
No person shall take an open flame or light into any building, barn, vessel, boat or any other place where highly combustible, flammable or explosive material is kept.
B. 
No open flame or light shall be used in the storage area of any warehouse storing rags, excelsior, hair or other highly flammable or combustible material; nor in the work area of any shop or factory used for the manufacture, repair or renovating of mattresses or bedding; nor in the work areas of any establishment used for the upholstering of furniture.
C. 
The use of candles or open flame of any kind in restaurants, dinner theaters, live-show theaters, motion-picture theaters, nightclubs, taverns, institutional or educational occupancies or any place of public assembly is strictly prohibited.
A. 
All trapdoors, except those which are automatic in their operation, in any factory building or building used for storage shall be closed at the completion of the business of each day.
B. 
Unless otherwise provided in the New York Uniform Code, trapdoors from stores to basements or upper storage areas must be kept closed at all times or be provided with a magnetic hold-opening device so constructed as to automatically close upon detection of smoke or fire.
C. 
All trapdoors shall be of fireproof construction.
A. 
Meter room shall be kept free and clear of any storage.
B. 
Gas meter rooms are not to be used for any purpose other than a meter room, and no articles of any kind are to be stored or kept in these rooms.
C. 
Gas meters must be protected from tenant and other storage by a masonry partition and ventilation to the outside air.