2006 New York Code - Registration; Time To File.

 
    §  27-2097  Registration;  time  to  file.  a. The owner of a dwelling
  required  to  register  under  this  article  shall  register  with  the
  department in accordance with the provisions of this article.
    b. A registration statement shall be filed:
    (1)  For  every  existing  multiple dwelling. A registration statement
  filed by the present owner of a dwelling pursuant to the requirements of
  the prior law shall constitute compliance with this section.
    (2) Prior to the issuance of  a  certificate  of  occupancy,  for  any
  multiple  dwelling  hereafter  erected,  or  any  dwelling  or  building
  hereafter altered or converted to a multiple dwelling.
    (3) On or before July first, nineteen hundred seventy,  for  all  one-
  and two-family dwellings whose owner does not reside within the city and
  thereafter  not  later  than  ten  days  after  the  owner  of a one- or
  two-family dwelling removes his or her residence from the city.
    (4) On or before July first, nineteen  hundred  eighty-four,  for  any
  garden-type  maisonette  dwelling  project  consisting  of  a  series of
  dwelling units which together and in their  aggregate  are  arranged  or
  designed  to  provide  three  or  more apartments, and are provided as a
  group collectively with all essential services such as, but not  limited
  to, house sewers and heat, and which are operated as a unit under single
  ownership,  notwithstanding  that  certificates of occupancy were issued
  for portions thereof as private dwellings.
    (5) Within such time as provided in section 27-2099 of  this  article,
  in  the  case  of  a  change of ownership where registration is required
  under this article.
    c. An owner who is required to register shall file a new  registration
  statement annually.
    d.  An owner who is required to register shall file a new registration
  statement on the registration date assigned  to  that  dwelling  by  the
  department  whether or not that owner filed a registration statement for
  that dwelling previously.
    e. The registration date of  a  dwelling  shall  be  a  calendar  date
  assigned  by  the  department  to  that  dwelling  for  the  purpose  of
  registration on such date at intervals of one year.