N.Y. Multiple Dwelling Law § 262: Alteration of uncompleted buildings

§ 262. Alteration of uncompleted buildings. The provisions of this

chapter relating to multiple dwellings erected after April eighteenth,

nineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall not apply to any fireproof building

structurally enclosed but uncompleted on April first, nineteen hundred

forty-five, conforming to the provisions of the local zoning law or

resolution applicable to an apartment hotel, in effect at the time of

the approval of the original plans filed for the construction of such

building, and which building shall thereafter be altered and completed

as a class A multiple dwelling, in accordance with plans and amendments

thereto approved by the department. Such building, if so altered and

completed on or before July first, nineteen hundred forty-eight, may be

lawfully occupied thereafter as a class A multiple dwelling if it

conforms with the provisions of section twenty-five applicable to

fireproof class A multiple dwellings occupied as such before April

eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine.