2006 New York Code - Certain Cities; Actions To Restrain Nuisances.

 
    § 375. Certain cities; actions to restrain nuisances. The commissioner
  of  health  or health officer of a city having a population of less than
  one hundred seventy-five thousand, is authorized, by and with the advice
  and consent of the corporation counsel or city attorney, in the name  of
  the  city  to maintain actions to restrain the threatened performance or
  the continued performance of any act contrary to his orders, directions,
  decisions or ordinances, and to restrain and abate  nuisances,  and  for
  the  purpose  of  obtaining a temporary injunction in any such action no
  undertaking shall be required.