Multiple Residence Law § 104 · Title 1. Light and Air
Size of rooms
Text — Law content up to date as of May 1, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
§ 104. Size of rooms. 1. Every living room, except kitchens, shall contain at least eighty square feet of floor space and shall be not less than eight feet in its least horizontal dimension. However, in every permanently occupied dwelling, one living room in each apartment or suite shall have at least one hundred thirty-two square feet of floor space.
2. Every living room shall be at least seven and a half feet high, the measurements in all cases to be taken from the finished floor to the finished underside of the ceiling. Beams crossing the ceiling may be disregarded if none of them extends below the ceiling more than six inches.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Law content up to date as of May 1, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
- Official file
- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/MRE104
- Text hash
- sha256 0d1dac2ec0b1bf82a1e3a3b61812492d15ede66d59a5b03eb7b808f531432f92
- Composed by
- gen_ny_statutes.py 2026-11-10: the Senate's Open Legislation law tree (GET /api/3/laws/<ID>?full=true) read in document order; the Senate's PDF of the whole law (GET /pdf/laws/<ID>?full=true), read with PDFium, prints the same words in the same order
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.