N.Y. Labor Law § 276: Inspection of buildings and approval of plans

§ 276. Inspection of buildings and approval of plans. 1. Inspection

of buildings. The officer of any city, village or town having power to

inspect buildings therein to determine their conformity to the

requirements of law or ordinance governing their construction shall,

whenever requested by the commissioner, inspect any factory building

therein and certify to the commissioner whether such building conforms

to the requirements of this chapter and the rules of the board. Such

certificate shall be presumptive evidence of the truth of the matters

therein stated.

2. Approval of plans. Before constructing or altering a building to be

used for a factory, the plans and specifications therefor may be

submitted to the commissioner in such form as he may require. If they

comply with the requirements of this chapter and the rules of the board,

the commissioner shall issue his certificate approving the same. No

permit for the construction of any building or structure, which is

required to conform to the structural requirements of the labor law or

the rules adopted thereunder shall be issued by an enforcing authority

in any city or village of this state except as provided by chapter five

hundred and three of the laws of nineteen hundred sixteen as amended,

until the plans have been approved by the commissioner. Nothing herein

shall prohibit any local authority from issuing a temporary permit for

excavation and foundations and such temporary permit also shall issue

upon notice from the department of labor of the receipt of a request for

a variation as provided for in section thirty of this chapter. Such

certificate shall be presumptive evidence of the truth of the matters

therein stated.

3. Certificate of compliance. After such construction or alteration

shall be completed, the commissioner shall ascertain by inspection

whether the building conforms substantially to the requirements of this

chapter and the rules of the board. If the commissioner finds that it

does so conform he shall issue his certificate to that effect. No

building or structure hereafter erected, or altered, which is required

to conform to the structural requirements of the labor law or the rules

adopted thereunder, shall be used or occupied without such certificate.