2016 New York Laws
LAB - Labor
Article 17 - (Labor) PUBLIC SAFETY
473 - Certificate of compliance with requirements of law.

  473.  Certificate  of  compliance with requirements of law.  1. The
  enforcing authority shall ascertain  by  inspection  whether  places  of
  public  assembly  conform  to  the  requirements of this article and the
  rules adopted thereunder. If such places are found to so conform, he  or
  it  shall  issue  a  certificate  of  compliance  to  that  effect. Such
  certificate shall be conspicuously posted on the  premises.  Before  any
  certificate  of compliance shall be issued to a place of public assembly
  erected after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-two,
  plans for such building shall be filed with the industrial  commissioner
  or with the local enforcing authority for approval, and such plans shall
  not  be  approved  unless they conform to the provisions of this article
  and the rules adopted thereunder. The industrial commissioner shall  not
  require  the  filing  of  plans  before the issuance of a certificate of
  compliance for a place of public assembly  erected  before  July  first,
  nineteen  hundred  sixty-three  over  which enforcement jurisdiction was
  delegated to the industrial commissioner on such date, nor for  a  place
  of public assembly which may be transferred to his jurisdiction pursuant
  to paragraph (b) of section four hundred seventy-two of this article.
2.  A  fee  not  to exceed one hundred dollars shall be charged to and
  collected from the owner, lessee  or  person  conducting  the  place  of
  assembly  for  each inspection, but not more than two hundred dollars in
  any one year shall be so charged or collected, in respect  of  the  same
  premises,  except  that  no  fee  shall  be  charged  for  inspection of
  buildings operated as a  public  place  of  assembly  by  any  political
  subdivision or by an agricultural society or association receiving state
  aid;  provided,  however,  that  no fee shall be charged to or collected
  from a volunteer fire company or an organization  of  veterans  for  the
  inspection  of any place of public assembly operated by such a volunteer
  fire company or organization of veterans.