In each tenement house, all rooms, except water-closet compartments, bathrooms and kitchenettes, shall be of the following minimum sizes: In each apartment there shall be at least one room containing not less than one hundred and twenty square feet of floor area, and each other room shall contain at least seventy square feet of floor area. Each room shall be in at least seventy-five per cent of its area not less than seven feet eight inches high from the finished floor to the finished ceiling, except attic rooms, which shall be at least seven feet four inches high in one-half of its area. A kitchenette with less than seventy square feet of floor area need not be considered a separate room but shall comply with § 19-359.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 19a-358

  • Apartment: means a room or suite of rooms occupied or designed to be occupied as a family domicile. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-355
  • Tenement house: means any house or building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or is arranged or designed to be occupied, or is occupied, as the home or residence of three or more families, living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, and having a common right in the halls, stairways or yards. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-355
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