N.Y. Private Housing Finance Law § 576-b: Special provisions with respect to state urban development corporation projects

§ 576-b. Special provisions with respect to state urban development

corporation projects. Any state urban development corporation project

shall comply with the requirements of local laws, ordinances, codes,

charters or regulations applicable to the construction, reconstruction,

rehabilitation, alteration or improvement of such project, except where

the state urban development corporation, in its discretion, finds such

compliance not feasible or practicable, in which event such project

shall comply with the requirements of the state building construction

code, formulated by the state building code council pursuant to article

eighteen of the executive law, applicable to such construction,

reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration or improvement. No county,

city, town or village shall have power to modify or change the drawings,

plans or specifications for the construction, reconstruction,

rehabilitation, or improvement of any such project or the construction,

plumbing, heating, lighting or other mechanical branch of work necessary

to complete the work in question, nor to require that any person, firm

or corporation employed on any such work shall perform any such work in

any other or different manner than that provided by such plans and

specifications, nor to require that any such person, firm or corporation

obtain any other or additional authority, approval, permit or

certificate from such county, city, town or village as a condition of

doing such work, nor shall any condition whatever be imposed by any such

county, city, town or village in relation to the work being done, and

the doing of any such work by any person, firm or corporation in

accordance with the terms of such drawings, plans, specifications or

contracts shall not subject said person, firm or corporation to any

liability or penalty, civil or criminal, other than as may be stated in

such contracts or incidental to the proper enforcement thereof; nor

shall any county, city, town or village have power to require that any

subsidiary of the New York state urban development corporation, or any

lessee therefrom or successor in interest thereto, obtain any other or

additional authority, approval, permit, certificate or certificate of

occupancy from such county, city, town or village as a condition of

owning, using, maintaining, operating or occupying any project acquired,

constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated or improved by any such

subsidiary of the New York state urban development corporation.