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2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 7 - Non-Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 254 - Egress From Dwellings.

§ 254. Egress from dwellings. 1. Nursing and convalescent homes, homes
  for  the  aged  and  boarding and nursery schools, two stories in height
  erected after July first, nineteen  hundred  fifty-seven,  child  caring
  institutions,  two stories in height, erected after July first, nineteen
  hundred sixty-two and all dwellings three  or  more  stories  in  height
  shall  have  at  least  two  means  of  egress  and, except as otherwise
  provided in the case of a pitched or sloped roof, shall  extend  to  the
  roof  from  an  entrance  story, street, court or yard. The entrances to
  such means of egress at every story  shall  be  at  least  fifteen  feet
  distant  from  each  other unless they are on opposite sides of a public
  hall. One means of egress shall be a stair constructed  as  provided  in
  section  two  hundred  fifty-seven.  The  other means of egress shall be
  either another such stair or a fire-stair or a  fire-escape  constructed
  as provided in section one hundred thirty-three.
2.  If  the  number of living rooms on any story, or in any section of
  any story, above the entrance story exceeds twenty, there  shall  be  an
  additional  stair  or  a fire-stair extending from the entrance story to
  the roof for each twenty rooms or fraction  thereof  on  such  story  or
  section  thereof  in  excess  of twenty, except that no additional stair
  shall be required for such excess on any story or section thereof if the
  number of living rooms thereon does not exceed thirty and if in addition
  one stair serving such story or section and every entrance hall or other
  public hall connected therewith is everywhere four feet  six  inches  or
  more in clear width.
3.  There shall be accessible from every apartment two means of egress
  from the dwelling, one of which shall be  an  enclosed  stair  complying
  with the provisions of section two hundred fifty-seven within fifty feet
  from a means of egress from such apartment.
4.  Nursing  and  convalescent homes, homes for the aged, and boarding
  and nursery schools, one story in  height,  erected  after  July  first,
  nineteen  hundred  fifty-seven, and child caring institutions, one story
  in height, erected after July first, nineteen hundred  sixty-two,  shall
  have  at least two means of egress from the dwelling accessible to every
  apartment providing free and unobstructed egress by a  door  opening  to
  the outer air.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 7 - Non-Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 255 - Egress From Apartments.

§ 255. Egress from apartments.  1. A dwelling three or more stories in
  height  shall  have at least two means of egress from every apartment or
  suite. Such means shall be remote from each other. Except where it opens
  into a stair as permitted in subdivision three, one means shall be to  a
  public  hall  connecting  with  an enclosed stair or fire-stair not more
  than fifty feet distant from such means. The  other  required  means  of
  egress  shall  open  either  directly  upon  a  fire-escape  or a public
  vestibule or other public hall connecting with a stair or fire-stair.
2. Except as hereinafter provided for dwellings two stories or less in
  height, such vestibule, hall or stair shall be separated from the public
  hall or stair, on which the first means of egress opens, by a  fireproof
  wall,  unpierced  except  by a fireproof door and assembly with the door
  self-closing.  In  a  dwelling  two  stories  or  less  in  height,  the
  separating wall may be fire-retarded.
3.  In a dwelling three stories or less in height and occupied by four
  families or less on each story, and in  any  section  of  a  permanently
  occupied dwelling which is two stories or less in height and occupied by
  four families or less on each story, a means of egress from an apartment
  may  open  directly  into  a  stair without the intervention of a public
  hall. Such means shall have a fireproof door and assembly with the  door
  self-closing and without a transom.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 7 - Non-Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 256 - Bulkheads and Scuttles.

§ 256. Bulkheads and scuttles.  1. Every required stair and fire-stair
  in  a  dwelling  three  stories  or more in height shall have a bulkhead
  constructed as provided for fireproof dwellings in section  two  hundred
  four.
2. A dwelling which is two stories or less in height shall be provided
  at each required stair or fire-stair either with such bulkhead or with a
  scuttle  at least two feet by three feet in size, located in the ceiling
  of the public hall on  the  top  story.  Every  such  scuttle  shall  be
  arranged  to  be  readily  opened,  shall be covered on the outside with
  metal and shall be provided with stairs or  a  stationary  metal  ladder
  leading  thereto  and  easily  accessible  to  all  the occupants of the
  dwelling.
3. When the roof of a dwelling is pitched or sloped more than  fifteen
  degrees,  no  bulkhead  or  scuttle, or stair or ladder leading thereto,
  shall be required.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 7 - Non-Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 257 - Public Stairs.

§  257.  Public stairs. 1. Every stair and fire-stair shall, except as
  otherwise provided in subdivisions three and four of this section and in
  section  two  hundred  fifty-nine,  be  constructed  as   provided   for
  fire-stairs  in  sections  two  hundred  two  and  two  hundred five for
  fireproof dwellings.
2. Every stair and fire-stair shall be at least three  feet  in  clear
  width  throughout,  and at all floor levels shall have landings at least
  three feet eight inches in clear width.
3. Every stair and fire-stair shall be completely separated from every
  other stair and fire-stair and from  every  public  hall  and  shaft  by
  fireproof  walls,  with  fireproof  doors and assemblies, with the doors
  self-closing and without transoms,  at  all  openings,  except  that  in
  dwellings two stories or less in height such walls may be fire-retarded.
  The  doors  giving  access  to such stairs shall not be held open by any
  device whatever.
4. Except in the case of an interior enclosed stair separated from and
  directly accessible to the public hall by a self-closing fireproof  door
  and  except  as provided in subdivision five, there shall be provided to
  light and ventilate every stair at  every  story  a  window  or  windows
  opening on a street, court or yard.
5. In a dwelling occupied by two families or less on every story:
a.  If  such dwelling is three stories or less in height, there may be
  provided for any stair, in lieu of windows, a stairwell  sixteen  inches
  or more in clear width extending from the entrance story to the roof.
b.  If  such  dwelling  is  a permanently occupied dwelling and is two
  stories or less in height, there may be provided for any stair, in  lieu
  of  windows,  a  stairwell  six  inches  or more in clear width. For the
  purposes of this paragraph, a section of a permanently occupied dwelling
  may be deemed a separate multiple dwelling.
c. If such dwelling is two stories in height and has no public hall on
  the first story, no stairwell or stair windows need be provided.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 7 - Non-Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 258 - Public Halls.

§ 258. Public halls. 1. Every public hall shall be everywhere at least
  three feet in clear width.
2.  Except  as  herein provided, every public hall shall be completely
  enclosed with fireproof floor, ceiling and  walls,  and  separated  from
  every  stair  by  fireproof partitions or walls, and all doors and their
  assemblies  opening  therefrom  shall  be  fireproof,  with  the   doors
  self-closing  and  without transoms. In a dwelling three stories or less
  in height occupied by not more than four families on each story, or in a
  permanently occupied dwelling or any section thereof two stories or less
  in height, any such hall which furnishes access to only one  stair  need
  not  be separated from such stair by any partition or door and the walls
  of a public hall may be fire-retarded and the  floors  may  be  provided
  with three inches or more of incombustible materials between the beams.
3. Except in dwellings three stories or less in height and occupied by
  two  families  or  less  on every story, every public hall shall have at
  least one window opening directly upon a street or upon a lawful yard or
  court. There shall be such a window at the end of such hall and at right
  angles to its length, with an additional window in each  forty  feet  of
  hall  or  fraction  thereof  beyond  the  first sixty feet from such end
  window; or the hall shall  have  one  window  opening  directly  upon  a
  street, yard or court, in every forty feet of the length of such hall or
  fraction thereof measured from one end of the hall. Any part of a public
  hall  that  is  shut  off  from any other part of such hall by a door or
  doors shall be deemed a separate hall.
4. The foregoing provisions of this section with  regard  to  lighting
  and  ventilation  shall  not  apply  to a vestibule or other public hall
  which serves as a means of access from one or  more  apartments  opening
  thereon  to a fire-stair meeting the requirements of section two hundred
  two if such vestibule or  public  hall  is  lighted  and  ventilated  as
  required by sections one hundred nine and two hundred seven.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 7 - Non-Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 259 - Cellar and Basement Stairs.

§  259. Cellar and basement stairs. A cellar or basement stair located
  inside the dwelling shall be entirely enclosed with fireproof walls  and
  be  provided, at all openings, with fireproof doors and assemblies, with
  the doors self-closing, except that in any  dwelling  three  stories  or
  less  in  height,  such  stair  may be enclosed with walls or partitions
  constructed of fire-resistive materials.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 7 - Non-Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 1 - Fire Protection › 260 - One and Two-Story Frame Dwellings; Area Limitation.

§  260.  One  and two-story frame dwellings; area limitation.  A frame
  dwelling not exceeding two stories in height erected pursuant  to  plans
  filed  after April first, nineteen hundred fifty-nine, and containing an
  area greater than three thousand square feet must, in  addition  to  any
  other  applicable  provisions of this article, comply with the following
  provisions:
1. Fire-stopped partitions shall be constructed between apartments  in
  such  dwelling so as to prevent the passage of fire, smoke or gases from
  one apartment to another.
2. No section of such dwelling shall contain more than three  thousand
  square  feet.  Each  such  section  shall  be  separated  from all other
  sections of the dwelling by fire walls of  masonry  or  other  materials
  having  a  fire  resistive  rating  of at least two hours. Such wall (1)
  shall be unpierced except for  openings  for  heat,  utility  and  other
  service  lines  and  ducts  with such openings sealed with incombustible
  materials (2) shall extend continuously from the  floor  of  the  lowest
  level  of  the  dwelling,  to  at  least two feet above the level of the
  finished roof and (3) be fire-stopped at floors and roof in such  manner
  as  to  prevent  the  passage  of fire, smoke or gases between sections.
  Where there is a peaked or sloped roof, such wall may terminate  at  the
  top of the roof boards.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 7 - Non-Fireproof New Multiple Dwellings › Title 2 - Sanitation › 280 - Water-Closets and Bathrooms.

§  280. Water-closets and bathrooms. The requirements for water-closet
  compartments, bath and shower rooms shall be the  same  as  provided  in
  section  two  hundred  fifteen for fireproof dwellings, except that each
  required water-closet compartment, bath or shower room in  an  apartment
  shall  be ventilated by a window opening to the outer air as provided in
  section one hundred seventy-one.   Water-closet compartments,  bath  and
  shower  rooms  which  are  supplementary  to  those  required  under the
  provisions of sections one hundred seventy-one and two  hundred  fifteen
  may  be  mechanically  or  gravity ventilated as provided in section one
  hundred seventy-one.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 8 - Requirements and Remedies › 300 - Registry of Owner.

§  300.  Registry  of owner. On or before July first, nineteen hundred
  fifty-four, every owner of a  multiple  dwelling  shall  file  with  the
  department  a  statement,  in duplicate, on a form to be prepared by the
  department substantially as follows:
  Owner of record: .......................................................
  Street No. or other identifying description: ...........................
  Type of construction: ..................................................
(frame, brick, stucco, etc.)
  Height of building: ................No. of stories: ....................
  Number of rooms or apartments for which designed: ......................
  Number of persons in occupancy: ........................................
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 8 - Requirements and Remedies › 301 - Permits.

§  301.  Permits. 1. It shall be unlawful to commence the construction
  or alteration of a multiple dwelling or any part or section thereof,  or
  of  any  building  or structure on the same lot with such a dwelling, or
  the alteration or conversion  of  a  building  for  use  as  a  multiple
  dwelling,  or the moving of a dwelling from one lot to another, until an
  application or plans have been filed in  and  a  permit  issued  by  the
  department.  The department shall have the power to charge and collect a
  reasonable fee for each application filed and for each permit issued.
2. No person shall be recognized as the agent of the owner  unless  he
  shall  file  with  the  department  a  written instrument, signed by the
  owner,  designating  him  as  such  agent.  Upon  the  filing  of   such
  instrument,  the person designated therein as such agent shall be deemed
  to be and shall be known as the certified agent of the owner.
3. The department shall have power to issue, refuse, revoke or  cancel
  any  permit or approval in case of any failure to comply with any of the
  provisions  of  this  chapter,  or  in  case  any  false  allegation  or
  representation is made in any plans or statements submitted or filed for
  such  permit  or  approval.  If  such  permit  is  refused,  revoked  or
  cancelled,  the  reason  for  such  action  shall  be  recorded  by  the
  department.
4.  All plans, statements and permits filed in any department shall be
  public  records  and  shall  not  be  destroyed  or  removed  from   the
  department.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 8 - Requirements and Remedies › 302-A - Unlawful Occupation.

§  302-a.  Unlawful  occupation.  1.  If  any dwelling or structure be
  occupied in whole or in  part  for  human  habitation  in  violation  of
  section three hundred two of this article, no rent shall be recovered by
  the owner of such premises for said period, and no action for possession
  of  said  premises  for  nonpayment  of  such  rent  shall be maintained
  therefor.
2. The department charged with the enforcement  of  this  chapter  may
  cause  to  be  vacated any dwelling or any part thereof which contains a
  nuisance as defined in section three hundred five of this article, or is
  occupied by more families or persons than permitted in this chapter,  or
  is erected, altered or occupied contrary to law. Any such dwelling shall
  not again be occupied until it or its occupancy, as the case may be, has
  been made to conform to law.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 8 - Requirements and Remedies › 304 - Penalties for Violations.

§ 304. Penalties for violations. 1. Any person, who having been served
  with a notice or order to remove any violation of this chapter or of any
  nuisance,  fails  to  comply therewith within thirty days or within such
  further reasonable time therefore fixed  by  the  department,  shall  be
  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  punishable for each offense by a fine of not
  exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for a  period  of  one
  year,  or  by both such fine and imprisonment. However, every person who
  shall violate or assist in a violation  of  any  provision  of  sections
  forty,  seventy  and  one  hundred  seventy-four  shall  be guilty of an
  offense punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor  exceeding
  five  hundred  dollars or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding six
  months, or by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment.  Courts  of  special
  sessions  shall  have  exclusive  jurisdiction  in the municipalities to
  which this chapter is  applicable  to  hear  and  determine  charges  of
  violations constituting misdemeanors or offenses under this chapter.
2.  The term "person" as used in this section shall include the owner,
  mortgagee  or  vendee  in  possession,  assignee  of  rents,   receiver,
  executor,   trustee,   lessee,  agent  or  any  other  person,  firm  or
  corporation directly or indirectly in control  of  a  dwelling  or  part
  thereof.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 8 - Requirements and Remedies › 306 - Service of Notices and Orders.

§ 306. Service of notices and orders.  Every notice or order issued by
  the  department  relative  to a premises shall be served at least thirty
  days before the time for compliance therewith. It  shall  be  sufficient
  service  of  a  departmental  notice  or  order,  if  it  is posted in a
  conspicuous place upon the premises affected and a copy thereof  mailed,
  on  the  same  day it is posted, to the person to whom it is directed at
  the address filed by him in the department, and, if his address  is  not
  so filed in the department, then in such case, such notice shall be sent
  by registered mail to his last known address or place of residence.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 8 - Requirements and Remedies › 307 - Records and Searches.

§  307.  Records  and searches. All records of the department shall be
  public.  Upon request the department shall be required to make a  search
  and issue a certificate of any of its records, including violations, and
  shall  have the power to charge and collect reasonable fees for searches
  or certificates.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 9 - Review; Rules; Saving Clauses; Effective Date › 326 - Rules and Regulations.

§  326.  Rules and regulations. 1. The commission shall have the power
  to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations carrying into effect  such
  provisions  of the sections of this chapter wherein reference is made to
  the rules and regulations of or to be adopted  by  the  commission,  and
  also  in  other  cases  where  the  approval  of  the  department or the
  existence of conditions satisfactory to it is  a  requisite  under  this
  chapter  for  compliance  with  any  provision  of  this  chapter or the
  exercise of discretionary powers  by  the  department  with  respect  to
  alternative requirements, is authorized.
2. Such rules and regulations shall be designed within the limitations
  of the specifically applicable provisions of this chapter:
a. To effectuate the general purposes of this chapter.
b.  To provide reasonably uniform standards, ratings and requirements,
  consonant with accepted standards of engineering,  fire  prevention  and
  safety practices.
c.  To  formulate  such  standards  and requirements, so far as may be
  practicable, in terms of performance objectives, so as to make  adequate
  performance for the use intended the test of acceptability.
d.  To  permit to the fullest extent possible, use of modern technical
  methods,  devices  and  improvements  which  tend  to  reduce  costs  of
  construction,   installation   and   maintenance  without  substantially
  affecting reasonable requirements for the health, safety and security of
  the occupants or users of dwellings.
3. Every rule or regulation or modification, amendment or repeal of  a
  rule  or  regulation  shall, immediately after adoption, be certified by
  the commission and transmitted to the secretary of state for  filing  in
  the  office  of  the  department of state. Upon such filing, the rule or
  regulation or modification, amendment or repeal of a rule or regulation,
  shall have the force and effect  of  law.  The  commission  shall  cause
  copies  thereof  to be sent to the appropriate department or departments
  of  all  municipalities  having  jurisdiction  over  multiple  dwellings
  therein which are affected thereby.
4.  The  commission  shall  invite  the cooperation and advice of fire
  departments and organizations in connection  with  the  promulgation  of
  rules and regulations relating to fire protection and fire prevention.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 9 - Review; Rules; Saving Clauses; Effective Date › 327 - Saving Clauses.

§  327. Saving clauses. The provisions of this chapter shall supersede
  any local law, ordinance, resolution or regulation of municipalities  to
  which this chapter is applicable, but shall not affect or impair any act
  done,  offense  committed  or  right  accruing,  accrued or acquired, or
  liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred or  imposed  prior
  to  the  time  this  chapter  takes effect, but the same may be enjoyed,
  asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted as fully  and  to  the  same
  extent and same manner as if such provisions had not been enacted.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 9 - Review; Rules; Saving Clauses; Effective Date › 328 - Effect of Invalidity in Part.

§  328.  Effect  of  invalidity in part. If any term, part, provision,
  article, section, subdivision or paragraph of this chapter shall be held
  unconstitutional, or ineffective in whole or in part, then to the extent
  that it is not unconstitutional or ineffective  this  chapter  and  such
  term,  part,  provision,  article,  section,  subdivision  or  paragraph
  thereof shall be in full force and effect; and such determination  shall
  not  be  deemed  to  invalidate  the remaining terms, parts, provisions,
  articles, sections, subdivisions or paragraphs thereof.
2023 New York Laws › MRE - Multiple Residence › Article 9 - Review; Rules; Saving Clauses; Effective Date › 329 - Laws Superseded.

§  329.  Laws  superseded.  1.  The  provisions  of this chapter shall
  supersede all other state  laws  and  all  local  laws,  ordinances  and
  regulations  of  municipalities to the extent that such laws, ordinances
  or regulations are inconsistent with the  provisions  of  this  chapter;
  provided,  however, that the provisions of any other state law or of any
  local  law,  ordinance  or  regulation  of  any  municipality,  or   the
  supplementary  rules  or  regulations of any state department having the
  force and effect of law, now in effect or hereafter enacted or  adopted,
  which  are  more  restrictive than those provided in this chapter, shall
  govern during the period in which they are in effect.
2. Upon the  adoption  by  any  municipality  of  any  state  building
  construction  code  as to multiple residences pursuant to the provisions
  of article eighteen of the executive law which code contains  provisions
  relating  to  the  construction  of  multiple  dwellings  to  which  the
  provisions of articles four, five, six and seven  of  this  chapter  are
  applicable  in  whole or in part, then and in such event, the provisions
  of such articles four, five, six and seven and the definitions  used  in
  conjunction  therewith  shall  become  inoperative  with  respect to the
  construction of such dwellings in any such municipality so long  as  the
  state building construction code is applicable and operative.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 3 - Procedure for Adoption of Local Laws; Referenda; Filing and Publication › 21 - Approval of Local Laws by Elective Chief Executive Officer.

§  21.  Approval  of  local  laws by elective chief executive officer.
  Every local law shall be certified by the clerk  after  its  passage  by
  such  body  and  shall  be  presented  to  the  elective chief executive
  officer, if any, for approval by him. If such officer  approves  it,  he
  shall  sign  it  and return it to such clerk; it shall then be deemed to
  have been adopted. If he disapproves it, he shall return it to the clerk
  with his objections stated in writing and the clerk  shall  present  the
  same  with  such  objections to the legislative body at its next regular
  meeting and such objections shall be entered in its record,  journal  or
  minutes   of  proceedings.  The  legislative  body  within  thirty  days
  thereafter may reconsider the same. Such  an  elective  chief  executive
  officer who is a member of the legislative body shall not be entitled to
  vote  on  such reconsideration. If after such reconsideration such local
  law is repassed by a vote of at least two-thirds  of  the  total  voting
  power  of  the  legislative body, exclusive of such officer, it shall be
  deemed adopted, notwithstanding the objections of such officer. Only one
  vote shall be had upon such reconsideration. The vote shall be taken  by
  ayes  and  noes,  and  the  names of the members present and their votes
  shall be entered in the record, journal or minutes  of  proceedings.  If
  within  thirty  days  after a local law shall have been presented to him
  such officer shall neither approve it nor return it to  the  clerk  with
  his objections, it shall be deemed to be adopted in like manner as if he
  had  signed it. At any time prior to such adoption or to the return of a
  local law by such officer, as the case may be, the legislative body  may
  recall the same and reconsider its action thereon.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 3 - Procedure for Adoption of Local Laws; Referenda; Filing and Publication › 22 - Effect of Local Laws on Acts of Legislature or Prior Local Laws or Ordinances.

§  22. Effect of local laws on acts of legislature or prior local laws
  or ordinances. 1. In adopting a local law changing  or  superseding  any
  provision  of  a state statute or of a prior local law or ordinance, the
  legislative body shall specify the chapter or local  law  or  ordinance,
  number  and year of enactment, section, subsection or subdivision, which
  it is intended to change or supersede, but the  failure  so  to  specify
  shall  not  affect  the  validity  of such local law. Such a superseding
  local law may contain the text of such statute, local law or  ordinance,
  section,  subsection  or  subdivision and may indicate the changes to be
  effected in  its  text  or  application  to  such  local  government  by
  enclosing  in  brackets,  or  running  a  line through, the matter to be
  eliminated therefrom and italicizing or underscoring new  matter  to  be
  included therein.
2.  No  local  law  shall  supersede  any provision of a state statute
  except as authorized by the constitution,  this  chapter  or  any  other
  state statute.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 3 - Procedure for Adoption of Local Laws; Referenda; Filing and Publication › 25 - Propositions for the Submission of Local Laws.

§ 25. Propositions for the submission of local laws. A proposition for
  the  submission  of a local law to the approval of the electors pursuant
  to this chapter shall contain the title of such local  law.  The  clerk,
  with  the advice of the corporation counsel, municipal attorney or other
  principal law officer shall  prepare  an  abstract  of  such  local  law
  concisely  stating  the title, purpose and effect thereof, and forthwith
  shall transmit such  proposition  and  such  abstract  to  the  election
  officers  charged  with  the  duty  of  publishing  the  notice  of  and
  furnishing the supplies for such election. A sufficient number of copies
  of such abstract shall be printed and made  available  at  the  time  of
  registration or otherwise in advance of the election to such electors as
  desire  them,  and  shall  also  be  delivered  with  the other election
  supplies and distributed to the electors at the election.  If  there  be
  more  than  one such proposition to be voted upon at such election, such
  propositions shall be separately and consecutively numbered.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 3 - Procedure for Adoption of Local Laws; Referenda; Filing and Publication › 26 - Reconsideration of Local Law Before Submission to Referendum.

§ 26. Reconsideration of local law before submission to referendum. At
  any  time  prior  to  the  election  at  which  a local law adopted by a
  legislative body is to be submitted to the electors for approval because
  it is subject to mandatory or  permissive  referendum,  the  legislative
  body,  not later than fifteen days prior to the election, may reconsider
  its action thereon and repeal such local law, whereupon the  proposition
  for  its  approval  shall  not  be  submitted  at  such  election or, if
  submitted, the vote of the electors thereon shall be without effect.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 3 - Procedure for Adoption of Local Laws; Referenda; Filing and Publication › 27 - Filing and Publication of Local Laws.

§  27.  Filing  and  publication  of local laws. 1. Within twenty days
  after a local law shall finally have been adopted, the clerk,  or  other
  officer  designated  by  the  legislative body, shall file one certified
  copy thereof in the office of such clerk except that in the  case  of  a
  county  it shall also be filed in the office of the county clerk and one
  certified copy in the office of the secretary of state. In the case of a
  local law subject to a referendum, however,  such  local  law  shall  be
  filed  within  twenty  days after its approval by the electors, or where
  the local law was subject to a permissive referendum and no petition was
  filed requesting the referendum, the local law  shall  be  filed  within
  twenty  days  after  the  time  for  filing  of such petition shall have
  expired.
2. Each such certified copy shall contain the text only of  the  local
  law without the brackets and without the matter within the brackets, the
  matter  with  a line run through it, or the italicizing or underscoring,
  if any, to indicate the changes  made  by  it,  except  that  each  such
  certified copy of a local law enacted by a city with a population of one
  million  or  more shall be printed in the same form as the official copy
  of the proposed local law which became the local law provided that  line
  numbers,  the printed number of the bill and explanatory matter shall be
  omitted.
3. Notwithstanding the effective date of any local law,  a  local  law
  shall  not  become  effective  before  it  is filed in the office of the
  secretary of state.
4. Subject to the provisions of subdivision three hereof, every  local
  law  shall  take effect on the twentieth day after it shall finally have
  been adopted unless a different time  shall  be  prescribed  therein  or
  required by this chapter or other provision of law.
5.  The  secretary  of  state shall publish annually local laws on the
  department of state website and in a separate volume as a supplement  to
  the  session laws, and shall publish at least annually on the department
  of state website a complete codification of all  local  laws  in  effect
  that  have  been  adopted  by  the  legislative body of each county. The
  clerk, or other officer designated  by  the  legislative  body  of  each
  county,  shall  provide local laws to the secretary of state in a manner
  specified by the  secretary  of  state  to  facilitate  the  publication
  requirements of this subdivision.
6.  The  clerk  shall  record  all local laws filed in his office in a
  separate book or books, which shall be indexed by him.
7. The secretary of state shall have the authority to provide for  the
  receipt and filing of local laws by electronic transmission.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 3 - Procedure for Adoption of Local Laws; Referenda; Filing and Publication › 28 - Law Applicable to Conduct of Elections at Which Ballot Questions Are Submitted to All the Voters of a City.

§ 28. Law applicable to conduct of elections at which ballot questions
  are  submitted  to  all  the  voters  of  a  city. The provisions of the
  election law or any other law relating to the submission of questions at
  general  elections,  so  far  as  the  same  are  applicable   and   not
  inconsistent  with  this  article,  shall  apply  to  the conduct of all
  elections at which questions are submitted to all the voters of a  city.
  Where  a  specific  provision  of  law  exists in any other law which is
  inconsistent with the provisions of the  election  law,  such  provision
  shall  apply  unless a provision of the election law specifies that such
  provision of the election law  shall  apply  notwithstanding  any  other
  provision of law.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 4 - Powers of Counties and Cities to Adopt Charters › Part 1 - The County Charter Law › 32 - Definitions.

§  32. Definitions. For the purposes of this part, the following terms
  shall mean and include:
1. "Board of supervisors." The board of supervisors or other  elective
  governing body of a county.
2.  "Charter  law."  A  local  law  providing, amending or repealing a
  county charter, or transferring a function or a duty pursuant to section
  thirty-three-a of this chapter.
3. "County." A county of the state except a county in the city of  New
  York.
4. "County charter." An alternative form of county government provided
  in  accordance  with the constitution by act of the legislature or local
  law.
5. "Local law." A local law adopted by the board of supervisors  of  a
  county  pursuant  to  this chapter or other statute generally empowering
  the county to adopt local laws.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 4 - Powers of Counties and Cities to Adopt Charters › Part 1 - The County Charter Law › 33-A - Transfer of Functions or Duties of Local Governments and Districts.

§  33-a.  Transfer  of  functions  or  duties of local governments and
  districts. 1. Subject to  restrictions  in  the  constitution,  in  this
  article  or in any other applicable law, the board of supervisors of any
  county may, by local law, transfer functions or duties of the county  or
  of  the  cities, towns, villages, districts or other units of government
  wholly contained in such county to each other, or for the  abolition  of
  one  or  more units of government, including but not limited to offices,
  departments or agencies thereof, when the level and quality  of  ongoing
  services of all their functions or duties are transferred.
2.  Any  such  local  law,  or  an  amendment or repeal of one or more
  provisions thereof which  would  have  the  effect  of  transferring  or
  abolishing  a  function  or  duty of the county or of the cities, towns,
  villages, districts or other units of government wholly contained in the
  county, shall not become operative unless and until it is approved at  a
  general  election  or  at  a  special  election,  held  in the county by
  receiving a majority of the total votes cast thereon: (a) in the area of
  the county outside of cities and (b)  in  the  area  of  cities  of  the
  county,  if  any,  considered  as  one  unit, and if it provides for the
  transfer of any function or duty to or  from  any  village  or  for  the
  abolition  of  any office, department, agency or unit of government of a
  village wholly contained in the county, it shall not take effect  unless
  it  shall  also  receive a majority of all the votes cast thereon in all
  the villages so affected considered as  one  unit.  Such  a  local  law,
  amendment  or  repeal  thereof,  shall provide for its submission to the
  electors of the county at the next general  election  or  at  a  special
  election,  occurring not less than sixty days after the adoption thereof
  by the board of supervisors.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 4 - Powers of Counties and Cities to Adopt Charters › Part 1 - The County Charter Law › 35 - Legislative Intent; Construction.

§  35. Legislative intent; construction. 1. It is the intention of the
  legislature by this county charter law  to  provide  for  carrying  into
  effect  the  provisions  of  paragraph (h) of subdivision one of article
  nine of the  constitution  and,  pursuant  to  the  direction  contained
  therein, to empower counties to prepare, adopt and amend county charters
  by local legislative action, subject to limitations imposed herein.
2. It is not the intention of the legislature hereby to (a) abolish or
  curtail any powers or rights heretofore conferred upon or delegated to a
  county  or  counties  or to any of the units of government therein or to
  any board, commission, body or officer  thereof,  or  (b)  adversely  to
  affect  the power of a county to adopt, amend or repeal county charters,
  county laws or local laws pursuant to any  other  authorization  of  the
  legislature,  unless a contrary intention is clearly manifested from the
  express provisions of this county charter law or by necessary intendment
  therefrom.
3. This county charter law shall be construed  liberally.  The  powers
  herein  granted  shall  be  in  addition  to any other powers granted to
  counties by any other provisions of general or special  laws,  including
  but not limited to charters, administrative codes, special acts or local
  laws. A permissive procedure authorized hereby shall not be deemed to be
  exclusive  or  to  prohibit the use of any other procedure authorized by
  any general or special act of the legislature,  charter,  administrative
  code or local law lawfully adopted and still in effect.
4.  All  existing  state,  county, local and other laws or enactments,
  including charters, administrative codes and  special  acts  having  the
  force  of  law shall continue in force until lawfully amended, modified,
  superseded or repealed.
5. If any provision of the county charter law is not clear or requires
  elaboration in its application to the county, the board  of  supervisors
  may  interpret  such  provision in a local law not inconsistent with the
  provisions hereof. Where any question arises concerning  the  transition
  to  a  charter  law  which  is  not  provided  for  herein, the board of
  supervisors  may  provide  for  such  transition  by  a  local  law  not
  inconsistent with the provisions hereof.
6.  If  any  provision of this county charter law shall be adjudged by
  any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such  judgment  shall
  not  affect,  impair  or  invalidate  the remainder thereof but shall be
  confined in its operation to the particular provision directly  involved
  in the controversy in which such judgment is rendered.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 4 - Powers of Counties and Cities to Adopt Charters › Part 1 - The County Charter Law › 35-A - County Websites.

* § 35-a. County websites. Any county operating under a county charter
  as  defined in section thirty-two of this part which maintains a website
  shall use a ".gov" domain name for such website.
* NB Effective August 1, 2024
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 5 - Requests of Local Governments for Enactment of Special Laws Relating to Their Property, Affairs or Government › 40 - Requests of Local Governments for Enactment of Special Laws Relating to Their Property, Affairs or Government.

§  40.  Requests  of  local  governments for enactment of special laws
  relating to their property,  affairs  or  government.  The  elective  or
  appointive  chief  executive  officer, if there be one, or otherwise the
  chairman of the board of supervisors, in the case of a county, the mayor
  in the case of a city or village or the supervisor in the case of a town
  with the concurrence of the legislative body of such  local  government,
  or  the  legislative  body  by  a vote of two-thirds of its total voting
  power without the approval of such officer, may request the  legislature
  to  pass a specific bill relating to the property, affairs or government
  of such local government which does not in terms  and  in  effect  apply
  alike  to  all  counties,  all counties other than those wholly included
  within a city, all cities, all towns or all villages, as  the  case  may
  be.  Such  a  request  may  be  made  separately  by  two  or more local
  governments affected by the same bill. Every such request shall  declare
  that  a necessity exists for the passage of such bill by the legislature
  and shall recite the facts establishing  such  necessity.  The  form  of
  request  and  the  manner  of its communication to the legislature shall
  conform to rules promulgated by concurrent resolution of the senate  and
  assembly pursuant to article three-A of the legislative law. In adopting
  such  a request the legislative body shall be governed by the provisions
  of subdivision one of section twenty of this chapter with regard to  the
  adoption  of  a  local  law.  The  validity  of  an  act  passed  by the
  legislature in accordance with such a request shall not  be  subject  to
  review  by  the  courts  on the ground that the necessity alleged in the
  request did not exist or was  not  properly  established  by  the  facts
  recited.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 6 - Legislative Intent; Construction; Effective Date › 50 - Legislative Intent.

§ 50. Legislative intent. 1. It is the intention of the legislature by
  this  chapter  to provide for carrying into effect provisions of article
  nine of the constitution and the statute of  local  governments  and  to
  enable  local  governments to adopt and amend local laws for the purpose
  of fully and completely exercising the powers granted to them under  the
  terms and spirit of such article.
2.  There  is  hereby  reserved  to  the board of supervisors of every
  county not wholly included in a city,  the  board  of  aldermen,  common
  council,  council,  commission or other board or body of every city, the
  town board of every town and the board of trustees of every village  all
  the  rights,  privileges, powers and jurisdiction now conferred on it by
  law until such rights,  privileges,  powers  or  jurisdiction  shall  be
  abolished, transferred or changed by law.
3.  It  is  not  the intention of the legislature hereby to abolish or
  curtail  any  rights,  privileges,  powers  or  jurisdiction  heretofore
  conferred  upon  or  delegated  to any local government or to any board,
  body or officer thereof, unless a contrary intention is clearly manifest
  from the express provisions of this chapter or by  necessary  intendment
  therefrom,  or  to  restrict  the powers of the legislature to pass laws
  regulating matters other than the property,  affairs  or  government  of
  local  governments  as  distinguished  from  matters  relating  to their
  property, affairs or government.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 6 - Legislative Intent; Construction; Effective Date › 51 - Liberal Construction.

§ 51. Liberal construction. This chapter shall be liberally construed.
  The  powers  herein  granted  shall  be  in addition to all other powers
  granted to local governments by other provisions of  law.  A  permissive
  procedure authorized by this chapter shall not be deemed to be exclusive
  or  to  prohibit  the use of any other procedure authorized by any state
  statute, charter or local law lawfully adopted, but shall be  deemed  an
  alternative thereto.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 6 - Legislative Intent; Construction; Effective Date › 54 - Grants of Specific Powers Not Restrictive.

§ 54. Grants of specific powers not restrictive. A grant of a specific
  power by this chapter to one or more local governments shall not operate
  to  restrict  the meaning of a general grant of power by this chapter to
  the same or any other  local  government  or  to  exclude  other  powers
  comprehended in such general grant.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 6 - Legislative Intent; Construction; Effective Date › 55 - Effect of Unconstitutionality in Part.

§  55. Effect of unconstitutionality in part. If any clause, sentence,
  paragraph, section or part of this chapter  shall  be  adjudged  by  any
  court  of  competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not
  affect, impair  or  invalidate  the  remainder  thereof,  but  shall  be
  confined  in  its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section,
  or part thereof directly involved  in  the  controversy  in  which  such
  judgment shall have been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 6 - Legislative Intent; Construction; Effective Date › 56 - Existing Charters and Other Laws Continued.

§  56.  Existing  charters  and  other laws continued. 1. All existing
  valid provisions of laws,  charters  and  local  laws  not  specifically
  repealed  by  this  chapter  shall  continue  in  force  until  lawfully
  repealed, amended, modified or superseded.
2. A reference in any law, ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation  or
  document  to  any provision of the city home rule law, village home rule
  law, article six or  article  six-a  of  the  county  law,  or  sections
  fifty-one-a  through  fifty-one-f  of  the  town  law,  repealed by this
  chapter, in force at the time this chapter takes effect, shall be deemed
  and construed to refer to the corresponding provision or  provisions  of
  the  municipal  home  rule law as continued, modified or amended by this
  chapter.