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N.Y. Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law § 782: "Dwelling" defined

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  1. Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law
  2. Article 7-A. Special Proceedings By Tenants of Dwellings In the City of New York and the Counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester For Judgment Directing Deposit of Rents and the Use Thereof For the Purpose of Remedying Conditions Dangerous to Life, Health or Safety

§ 782. "Dwelling" defined. As used in this article, the term

"dwelling" shall mean any building or structure or portion thereof which

is occupied in whole or in part as the home, residence or sleeping place

of one or more human beings and is either rented, leased, let or hired

out, to be occupied, or is occupied as the residence or home of three or

more families living independently of each other; or is a garden-type

maisonette dwelling project as defined in the multiple dwelling law or

other similar dwellings which in their aggregate are arranged or

designed to provide three or more apartments, have common facilities

such as but not limited to a sewer line, water main, or heating plant

and are operated as a unit under common ownership, notwithstanding that

certificates of occupancy were issued for portions thereof as one or two

family dwellings or that the dwellings are not a multiple dwelling as

defined in the multiple dwelling law.

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