Every hotel shall be well drained and ventilated and every hotel connected with a cesspool or located in any municipality having a sewer system shall be well ventilated, drained, plumbed and connected according to sanitary principles with such cesspool or sewer system, and shall be kept free from effluvia arising from sewer, drain, water-closet or other source within the control of the owner, manager, agent or other person in charge of said hotel.
New York Legal Code