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    Definition of habitable room, window facing directly to the outdoors

    Our town has an ordinance stating that every bedroom shall have “a window facing directly to the outdoors”. What does that mean? Does that mean that the window must open to the outdoors? Could this requirement be met with an interior bedroom with no window to the outdoors that has a transom...
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