NEW YORK STATE
MULTIPLE DWELLING LAW
c. Such local laws may also authorize that all liens upon rents, whether authorized by state
or local law, may be satisfied without further judicial proceedings by the collection of
rents due or to become due.
5. Whenever a provision of any local law, ordinance, resolution or regulation is more restrictive
in a requirement for height, area or use, such local law, ordinance, resolution or regulation
shall govern and take precedence over any lesser requirements of this chapter. When,
however, the provisions of this chapter impose more restrictive requirements, the provisions
of this chapter shall govern.
6. A local law, ordinance, resolution or regulation shall not prohibit in any class A multiple
dwelling erected after April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, in compliance with
the provisions of this chapter, the use of wood for sleepers, grounds, nailing blocks,
underflooring or finish flooring or, within apartments, doors with their assemblies, interior
trim and assemblies of exterior windows, interior finish, closet fixtures, kitchen fixtures,
shelving, cupboards, cabinets or wardrobes.
7. Except as provided in subdivisions four and five, a local law, ordinance, rule or regulation
shall not modify or dispense with any provision of this chapter.
8. Wherever the word "city" occurs in this chapter, it shall be construed as though followed by
the words "or town or village to which this chapter is applicable." The words "charter,"
"ordinance," "resolution," "regulation," "building code," "department of health," "department
of water supply," "fire department," "department," "board," "city engineer," "corporation
counsel," "city treasury," or "fire limits," shall be construed as if followed by the words "or
corresponding authority of any city, town or village to which this chapter is applicable and in
which the dwelling or location referred to is situated."
9. Wherever in any statute of the state other than this chapter, or in any local law, ordinance,
resolution or regulation, reference is made to the tenement house law in relation to a city to
which this chapter is applicable, such reference shall be construed as applying to the
provisions of this chapter. If reference be made therein to any section or other part of the
tenement house law, such reference shall be construed as applying to the provisions of this
chapter relating to the same subject matter as the said section or part. If reference be made
therein to a "tenement house," such reference shall be construed as applying to a class A
multiple dwelling.
10. Wherever the date April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall appear in this
chapter such date shall be construed as if followed by the words "or the date when this
chapter or any of its provisions became or becomes applicable to any city, town or village
outside the City of New York."
11. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the following enumerated articles,
sections and subdivisions of sections of this chapter shall not apply to the construction or
alteration of multiple dwellings for which an application for a permit is made to the
department after December sixth, nineteen hundred sixty-nine in a city having a population
of one million or more which adopts or has adopted local laws, ordinances, resolutions or
regulations providing protection from fire hazards and making provision for escape from fire
in the construction and alteration of multiple dwellings and in other respects as protective as
local law seventy-six of the laws of the city of New York for nineteen hundred sixty-eight
and covering the same subject matter as the following: subdivisions twenty-five, twenty-
seven, twenty-eight, thirty-five-c, thirty-six and thirty-nine of section four, subdivision three
of section twenty-eight, sections thirty-six, thirty-seven, fifty, fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-three,