The Giuliani administration tended to remove or threaten places that held licenses as punishment for a range of violations, from inadequate exits to drug use by patrons.
They have won, for now: The club remains closed, Mr. Post said, and unaddressed problems include low ceilings, inadequate exits and staircases, and the lack of a sprinkler system and required permits.
In August 2001 the lounge was raided and cited for having an inadequate fire exit (by two inches, Ms. Bass said).
They will focus on serious concerns like inadequate fire exits and fundamental structural flaws that could cause buildings to collapse.
Common problems, for example, include an absence of fire doors, lockable gates at exits, buildings not designed to hold their load, inadequate fire stairs on exit routes, automatic fire alarms requiring upgrades, and the need for better support for, and enclosure of, electrical cables.
We spent 36 years dealing with inadequate restrooms and fire exits.
It turned out that German family law is totally inadequate to meet the "exit-problem".
In August, the London Fire Brigade issued notification of deficiencies letters in relation to two buildings at the estate, advising the council that "emergency routes or exits were inadequate" and "combustible materials were being stored on the means of escape".
But city officials shut down the hostel in April because it had only one stairway exit, which is inadequate for as many as 260 hostel guests, but fine for a typically smaller condo population.
Level 1 violations of Fire Department codes include hazardous conditions like furniture in hallways, inadequate rubbish storage and locked exits.
The alliance is beset with problems: inadequate defence spending, finding a respectable exit from Afghanistan, and America's "pivot" to Asia.
