Who needs to have window guards installed?
The law requires that window guards are installed: • • if you live in a building that has three or more apartments and a child 10 and under lives in your apartment, even if you live on the first floor. • • in every window in the apartment, except windows leading to fire escapes. In buildings with fire escapes, the window guard must be left off one window in each ground-floor apartment so that the window can be used as an emergency exit. • • in all public hallway windows. Even if you do not have a child 10 and under living with you, you still can have window guards if you want them. You might want them because children visit you, or you baby-sit. Or maybe you just feel safer with window guards. But, remember, if a child 10 and under lives with you, there is no choice-window guards must be installed. It’s the law!
