N.Y. Labor Law § 473: Certificate of compliance with requirements of law

§ 473. Certificate of compliance with requirements of law. 1. The

enforcing authority shall ascertain by inspection whether places of

public assembly conform to the requirements of this article and the

rules adopted thereunder. If such places are found to so conform, he or

it shall issue a certificate of compliance to that effect. Such

certificate shall be conspicuously posted on the premises. Before any

certificate of compliance shall be issued to a place of public assembly

erected after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-two,

plans for such building shall be filed with the industrial commissioner

or with the local enforcing authority for approval, and such plans shall

not be approved unless they conform to the provisions of this article

and the rules adopted thereunder. The industrial commissioner shall not

require the filing of plans before the issuance of a certificate of

compliance for a place of public assembly erected before July first,

nineteen hundred sixty-three over which enforcement jurisdiction was

delegated to the industrial commissioner on such date, nor for a place

of public assembly which may be transferred to his jurisdiction pursuant

to paragraph (b) of section four hundred seventy-two of this article.

2. A fee not to exceed one hundred dollars shall be charged to and

collected from the owner, lessee or person conducting the place of

assembly for each inspection, but not more than two hundred dollars in

any one year shall be so charged or collected, in respect of the same

premises, except that no fee shall be charged for inspection of

buildings operated as a public place of assembly by any political

subdivision or by an agricultural society or association receiving state

aid; provided, however, that no fee shall be charged to or collected

from a volunteer fire company or an organization of veterans for the

inspection of any place of public assembly operated by such a volunteer

fire company or organization of veterans.