N.Y. Public Health Law § 375: Certain cities; actions to restrain nuisances

§ 375. Certain cities; actions to restrain nuisances. The commissioner

of health or health officer of a city having a population of less than

one hundred seventy-five thousand, is authorized, by and with the advice

and consent of the corporation counsel or city attorney, in the name of

the city to maintain actions to restrain the threatened performance or

the continued performance of any act contrary to his orders, directions,

decisions or ordinances, and to restrain and abate nuisances, and for

the purpose of obtaining a temporary injunction in any such action no

undertaking shall be required.