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.
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.