This chapter shall be known as "Housing Standards Applicable to Residential Premises."
The purpose of this chapter is to provide basic and uniform standards, in terms of performance objectives implemented by specific requirements, governing the condition, occupancy and maintenance of residential premises, and establishing reasonable safeguards for the safety, health and welfare of the occupants and users thereof.
This chapter shall take effect on the first day of June 1969.
This chapter shall apply to residential premises as follows:
A. 
Lots, plots or parcels of land on which residential buildings, buildings of mixed occupancy or accessory structures are located.
B. 
Residential buildings, including one- and two-family dwellings and multiple dwellings, except as specifically excluded in § 183-5.
C. 
Residential occupancies in buildings of mixed occupancy.
D. 
Accessory structures, accessory to residential occupancies.
This chapter shall not apply to mobile homes and mobile home courts, or to transient-type occupancies and uses including, but not limited to, nursing and convalescent homes, hotels, motels, tourist camps, farm labor camps, travel trailers and trailer parks, and other forms of temporary housing.
A. 
The provisions of this chapter shall supersede local laws, ordinances, codes or regulations to the extent that such laws, ordinances, codes or regulations are inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the adoption and enforcement of a law, ordinance, code or regulation which is more restrictive or establishes a higher standard than those provided in this chapter, and such more restrictive requirement or higher standard shall govern during the period in which it is in effect.
B. 
Where a provision of this chapter is found to be in conflict with a provision of a zoning, building, electrical, plumbing, fire, safety, health, water supply or sewage disposal law or ordinance, or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, or other local law, ordinance, code or regulation, the provision or requirement which is the more restrictive or which establishes the higher standard shall prevail.
Installations, alterations and repairs to residential premises, and materials, assemblies and equipment utilized in connection therewith, shall be reasonably safe to persons and property, and shall be in conformity with applicable statutes of the State of New York and orders, rules and regulations issued by authority thereof. Conformity of such work, materials, assemblies or equipment with the applicable requirements of the New York State Building Construction Code shall be prima facie evidence that the same is reasonably safe to person and property.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
A structure, the use of which is incidental to that of the residential building, and which is located on the same premises.