City of Buffalo, NY
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2023-11-15
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The Code
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 103 Building Construction and Demolition; Fire Prevention
- The Charter
- Ch C The Charter
- Ch CDL Disposition of Charter Legislation
- The Code
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 6 Boards, Committees, Agencies and Commissions
- Ch 12 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 16 Finance
- Ch 24 Libraries
- Ch 27 Notice, Publication of
- Ch 30 Office Hours and Holidays
- Ch 35 Personnel Policies
- Ch 37 Police Department
- Ch 44 Seal
- Ch 46 Telecommunications, Office of
- Ch 48 Time, Official
- Ch 53 Vehicles, City-Owned
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 63 Aircraft
- Ch 66 Air Pollution
- Ch 69 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 72 Ambulances and Ambulance Drivers
- Ch 75 Amusements
- Ch 78 Animals
- Ch 81 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 85 Bait Dippers
- Ch 88 Bakers and Confectioners
- Ch 91 Bicycle Paths
- Ch 92 Billiard and Pool Rooms and Bowling Alleys
- Ch 94 Boilers and Engines; Engineers
- Ch 96 Bonds and Contracts
- Ch 98 (Reserved)
- Ch 101 Buildings, Cleaning of
- Ch 103 Building Construction and Demolition; Fire Prevention
- Ch 103 Art I Adoption of Standards
- § 103-1 Adoption; filing.
- Ch 103 Art II Permits
- § 103-2 Definitions.
- § 103-2.1 Permit required; exceptions.
- § 103-2.2 General provisions.
- § 103-2.3 Terms and conditions under which building permits and building permit fees are not required.
- § 103-2.4 Building permits.
- § 103-2.5 Building permit fees.
- § 103-3 Form of application; person required to file.
- § 103-4 Contents of application.
- § 103-5 Time limit on applications.
- § 103-6 Issuance of permit.
- § 103-7 Performance of work under permit.
- § 103-8 Revocation of permit.
- § 103-8.1 Stop-work orders.
- § 103-8.2 Fines and penalties.
- § 103-8.3 Collection of unpaid permit fees, permit fines, fines, approvals costs, and services costs.
- § 103-9 Insurance and bonds required for building permits.
- § 103-10 Insurance and bonds required for demolition permits.
- § 103-11 Plans and specifications.
- § 103-12 Building permit fees.
- § 103-13 Demolition permit fees.
- § 103-13.1 Additional fees related to building projects.
- Ch 103 Art III Fire Prevention
- § 103-14 Establishment of Bureau; organization.
- § 103-15 Powers and duties of Bureau.
- § 103-16 Inspections.
- § 103-17 Access.
- § 103-18 Orders to eliminate dangerous conditions.
- § 103-19 Service of notices and orders.
- § 103-20 Department hearings.
- § 103-21 Formal hearings.
- § 103-22 Civil liability in case of fire.
- § 103-23 Investigation of fires.
- § 103-24 Records of Fire Department.
- § 103-25 Licenses for hazardous materials.
- § 103-26 Permits.
- § 103-26.1 Definitions.
- Ch 103 Art IV Miscellaneous Provisions
- § 103-27 Self-service gasoline.
- § 103-28 Unsafe chimneys.
- § 103-29 Unsafe staging, cornice, exterior wall, parapet, or projection.
- § 103-30 Sidewalk surveys.
- § 103-30.1 Nonparking paving in front yards of residential districts or uses; amount permissible.
- § 103-31 (Reserved)
- § 103-32 Standpipe systems.
- § 103-33 Elevators.
- § 103-34 Sprinklers in basements.
- § 103-35 Surveys for fire protection.
- § 103-36 Fire drills in educational and institutional occupancies.
- § 103-37 Emergency drills on school buses.
- § 103-38 General method of demolition.
- § 103-38.1 Dust control.
- Ch 103 Art V Combustible and Explosive Materials
- § 103-39 Willfully contributing to production of fires; penalties, exceptions.
- § 103-40 Removal of materials when vacating premises.
- § 103-41 (Reserved)
- § 103-42 (Reserved)
- § 103-43 Storage of Christmas trees.
- § 103-44 Manufacture of explosives prohibited.
- § 103-45 Limitations on quantity of explosives permissible.
- § 103-46 Hours of blasting.
- § 103-47 Explosives and blasting agents at terminals.
- § 103-48 Prohibited explosives.
- § 103-49 Manufacture of small arms ammunition prohibited; exceptions.
- § 103-50 Hand loading of small arms ammunition.
- § 103-51 Exceptions.
- § 103-52 Seizure of fireworks.
- § 103-53 Fire bombs.
- § 103-54 Cellulose nitrate plastics prohibited.
- Ch 103 Art VI (Reserved)
- § 103-55 through § 103-57. (Reserved)
- Ch 103 Art VII (Reserved)
- § 103-58 (Reserved)
- Ch 103 Art VIII (Reserved)
- § 103-58.1 through § 103-65. (Reserved)
- Ch 103 Art IX Exterior Inspection of Masonry Buildings
- § 103-66 Applicability.
- § 103-67 Definition.
- § 103-68 Exterior examination required.
- § 103-69 Examination report required.
- § 103-70 Repairs required.
- § 103-71 Buildings erected after effective date of article.
- § 103-72 Penalties for offenses.
- § 103-73 Effective date.
- Ch 105 (Reserved)
- Ch 107 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 109 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 111 Buildings, Public
- Ch 113 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 116 Burials
- Ch 119 Burning, Open
- Ch 120 Bureau of Administrative Adjudication
- Ch 122 Business Identification and Registration
- Ch 129 Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 130 Sales of Cannabis and Products Containing Cannabis
- Ch 131 Certificate of Operation
- Ch 132 Tobacco/Hookah/Vaping Establishments
- Ch 133 City Property
- Ch 137 Code Enforcement
- Ch 140 Collection Agencies
- Ch 141 Collection of Arrears
- Ch 142 Collection Boxes
- Ch 143 Consumer Electronics Installation and Repair
- Ch 144 Contractors
- Ch 150 Dances and Dance Halls
- Ch 154 Discrimination
- Ch 158 Diseases, Infectious
- Ch 159 Dentistry
- Ch 160 Domestic Partnership Registry
- Ch 161 Drugs
- Ch 165 Electricity
- Ch 167 Elevators and Conveyances
- Ch 168 Environmental Review
- Ch 169 Excavations and Quarries
- Ch 175 Fees
- Ch 180 Firearms, Arrows and Other Weapons
- Ch 183 Flags
- Ch 186 Flammable Liquids
- Ch 189 (Reserved)
- Ch 193 Food and Drugs
- Ch 194 Food Stores
- Ch 196 (Reserved)
- Ch 199 Fruits and Vegetables
- Ch 203 Fumigation
- Ch 209 Gambling
- Ch 213 Games of Chance
- Ch 216 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 219 Gasoline
- Ch 222 (Reserved)
- Ch 226 Grain
- Ch 232 Handbills and Other Publications
- Ch 235 Hazardous Materials and Wastes
- Ch 238 Heating
- Ch 242 Housing Standards
- Ch 249 Inspections
- Ch 254 Junk Dealers and Pawnbrokers
- Ch 259 Laundries and Clothes Cleaners
- Ch 261 Lead-Based Paint Abatement
- Ch 263 Licenses
- Ch 264 Rental Dwelling Unit Registration
- Ch 265 Property Managers
- Ch 266 Liquefied Petroleum Gas
- Ch 269 Lodging Houses
- Ch 270 Eviction for Illegal Drug Use and Possession
- Ch 275 Markets
- Ch 277 Mortgage in Default Property Registry
- Ch 278 Motion Pictures
- Ch 281 Multiple Housing
- Ch 286 Naming of Streets, Parks and Public Buildings
- Ch 288 Natural Gas Extraction
- Ch 289 Newsstands
- Ch 293 Noise
- Ch 294 Nuisance Abatement
- Ch 295 Nuisance Party
- Ch 299 Obscenity
- Ch 302 Oil and Gas Wells
- Ch 307 Parking and Parking Lots
- Ch 309 Parks and Other Open Spaces
- Ch 313 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 316 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 317 Aggressive Panhandling
- Ch 319 Performers, Outdoor
- Ch 322 (Reserved)
- Ch 326 Plumbing
- Ch 330 Poles and Wires
- Ch 333 Police Shields, Use of
- Ch 337 Preservation Standards
- Ch 341 Property Maintenance
- Ch 343 Promoting General Welfare of Minors in Public Places
- Ch 345 Public Safety, Obstruction of
- Ch 352 Railroads
- Ch 356 Rat Control
- Ch 361 Records
- Ch 365 Refrigerators
- Ch 370 Restaurants
- Ch 372 Bouncers
- Ch 378 Sanitation
- Ch 383 Shortwave Broadcasts
- Ch 387 (Reserved)
- Ch 391 Slaughterhouses
- Ch 395 Smoke Detectors
- Ch 399 Smoking
- Ch 404 (Reserved)
- Ch 409 Statues and Monuments; Public Art
- Ch 413 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 414 Special Events
- Ch 417 Strikebreakers
- Ch 421 (Reserved)
- Ch 425 (Reserved)
- Ch 430 Swimming Pools
- Ch 431 Tax Preparers, Regulation of
- Ch 437 Taxicabs, Liveries and Sightseeing Buses
- Ch 440 Telecommunications
- Ch 441 Telephone Facilities
- Ch 442 Wireless Facilities in Public Right-Of-Way
- Ch 444 (Reserved)
- Ch 449 Tires
- Ch 452 Alcohol Advertising
- Ch 454 Tow Trucks and Motor Vehicle Booting
- Ch 459 Trailers
- Ch 463 Transient Businesses; Trade Shows and Festivals
- Ch 467 Trees, Shrubs and Plants
- Ch 475 (Reserved)
- Ch 479 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 483 Vending Machines
- Ch 491 Water and Water Pollution
- Ch 495 Wharves, Harbors and Bridges
- Ch 496 Unified Development Ordinance
- Ch 501 Wood and Coal
- Ch 511 (Reserved)
- Distribution Table
- Ch DT Distribution Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Derived from the Charter and Ordinances, 1974,
of the City of Buffalo as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Moving of buildings — See Ch. 107.
Unsafe buildings — See Ch. 113.
Certificates of occupancy — See Ch. 129.
Electricity — See Ch. 165.
Flammable liquids — See Ch. 186.
Flood damage prevention — See Charter, Art. 31.
Hazardous materials and wastes — See Ch. 235.
Housing standards — See Ch. 242.
Inspections — See Ch. 249.
Licenses — See Ch. 263.
Eviction for illegal drug use and possession — See Ch. 270.
Plumbing — See Ch. 326.
Property maintenance — See Ch. 341.
Smoke detectors — See Ch. 395.
Subdivision of land — See Ch. 421.
Communications towers and antennas — See Ch.
511, Art. XXIX.
