N.Y. Public Housing Law § 219-e: Suspension of building restrictions

* § 219-e. Suspension of building restrictions. 1. The provisions of

the multiple dwelling law and of any other law, charter, administrative

code, building law, local law, ordinance, rule or regulation pertaining

to the construction, maintenance, use and occupation of housing

accommodations and incidental facilities, as well as the provisions of

any general, special or local law, rule or regulation pertaining to the

planning and zoning of buildings, shall not apply to the construction by

a government or authority of an emergency project, and shall be

suspended with respect to the maintenance, use and occupation thereof,

and the equipment and fixtures contained therein, as long as such

project is operated by a government or authority for the purpose of

providing emergency housing, or by an educational institution to which

the rights and interest of the United States have been, or shall

hereafter be, relinquished and transferred pursuant to the provisions of

chapter six hundred eighty-eight, public law seven hundred ninety-six of

the eightieth Congress (section fifteen hundred seventy-five of title

forty-two, U. S. code) or any amendment thereto, for the purpose of

providing emergency housing. Any provision of general, special, or local

law or any rule or regulation requiring the issuance of a certificate of

occupancy or other form of license or permit, as a condition to the

occupancy of any building, shall likewise be suspended with regard to

emergency projects.

2. The provisions of this section shall remain in effect during the

period of the housing emergency and the acute shortage of housing

accommodations but in no event beyond July first, nineteen hundred

fifty-four.

* NB Expired July 1, 1954 by its own terms