2023 New York Laws › MDW - Multiple Dwelling › Article 9 - Registry of Names and Service of Papers › 325 - Registry of Owner, Agent and Lessee.

§  325.  Registry  of  owner,  agent  and  lessee. 1. Every owner of a
  multiple dwelling, every lessee of a whole dwelling and every  agent  or
  other  person  having  control  of  such  a  dwelling, shall file in the
  department a notice containing his name, address and  a  description  of
  the  premises,  by street number or otherwise, and the class and kind of
  the dwelling thereon, in such manner as will enable  the  department  to
  find  the  same;  and  also  the  number of apartments and rooms in each
  apartment on each story,  and  the  number  of  families  occupying  the
  apartments.  If  such  owner  or  lessee  be a corporation, other than a
  banking organization as defined in section two of  the  banking  law,  a
  national  banking  association,  a federal savings and loan association,
  The Mortgage Facilities Corporation, Savings Banks Life Insurance  Fund,
  The Savings Banks Retirement System, an authorized insurer as defined in
  section  one  hundred  seven of the insurance law, or a trust company or
  other corporation organized under the laws of this state all the capital
  stock of which is owned by at least twenty savings banks or a subsidiary
  corporation all of the capital stock of which is  owned  by  such  trust
  company  or  other corporation, the names and residence addresses of its
  officers shall also be contained in such notice. A similar notice  shall
  be  filed within thirty days following an election of any new officer or
  a change of address of any such officer. The provisions of this  section
  also  shall  apply  to  successors in title, ownership or control of any
  premises, whether by act of the parties or by process  or  operation  of
  law  and,  within thirty days after such succession, particulars of such
  ownership or control shall be filed in the department. If any  successor
  in  interest  be  under  the  age of twenty-one years his duly appointed
  guardian or, if there be no guardian,  his  administrator  shall  comply
  with  this  section in his behalf.  Where after the filing of any notice
  under this section, the premises  shall  have  been  declared  a  public
  nuisance  to  any  extent  pursuant to paragraph b of subdivision one of
  section three hundred nine of this chapter and  such  declaration  shall
  have  been filed as therein provided, the owner, if a corporation, other
  than a banking organization as defined in section  two  of  the  banking
  law,  a  national  banking  association,  a  federal  savings  and  loan
  association, The Mortgage Facilities  Corporation,  Savings  Banks  Life
  Insurance  Fund,  The  Savings  Banks  Retirement  System, an authorized
  insurer as defined in section one hundred seven of the insurance law, or
  a trust company or other corporation organized under the  laws  of  this
  state all the capital stock of which is owned by at least twenty savings
  banks  or  a subsidiary corporation all of the capital stock of which is
  owned by such trust company or other corporation, shall file  a  similar
  notice  within  ten  days  which  shall in addition contain the name and
  residence and business address of each director and stockholder  of  the
  corporation  and of each person known to have any beneficial interest in
  such stock.
2. In any city of over one million which, by local law,  requires  the
  registration  of  owners  of  multiple  dwellings  and  which prescribes
  penalties, remedies, and sanctions to be imposed for  the  violation  of
  such  local registration requirements, no rent shall be recovered by the
  owner of a multiple dwelling who fails to comply with such  registration
  requirements  until he complies with such requirements. If a resident of
  an unregistered dwelling voluntarily pays rent or an installment of rent
  when he had a right to withhold the  same  under  this  subdivision,  he
  shall  not  thereafter have any claim or cause of action to recover back
  the rent or installment of rent so paid. A voluntary payment within  the
  meaning  of  this subdivision means payment other than one made pursuant
  to judgment in an action or special proceeding.