QUESTION
Are devices that hold doors open in buildings legal?
1:31:08
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The New York City Fire Department and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development state that doors, especially fire doors, must not be held open by any means.
- Devices or hooks that permanently hold doors open lead to violations.
- Staircase doors or doors in hallways are required to remain closed at all times.
- No exceptions are allowed for holding these doors open, as they are fire doors intended to protect building occupants.
Eric Dinowitz
1:31:08
And if you see the hooks that can permanently hold doors open.
1:31:12
Are those legal or illegal?
AnnMarie Santiago
1:31:14
Violations are issued for that.
Eric Dinowitz
1:31:16
Violations are issued.
1:31:17
Is there any circumstance in which a staircase door or a dory in between a hallway are allowed to be held open?
AnnMarie Santiago
1:31:25
Not to my knowledge.
1:31:26
I will have to check with our experts to give you a final answer.
Eric Dinowitz
1:31:30
Would deal be your FTNY?
1:31:32
No.
1:31:33
One way or the other.
Kevin Woods
1:31:34
Those doors have to be maintained closed at all times.
Eric Dinowitz
1:31:37
Okay.
1:31:37
And under no circumstances, are they to be held open with any device whatsoever?
Kevin Woods
1:31:42
No.
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Devices.
1:31:43
No.
1:31:43
They fire doors.
1:31:44
So it's protect the occupants of that building.