2016 New York Laws
MDW - Multiple Dwelling
Article 5-A - (Multiple Dwelling) GARDEN-TYPE MAISONETTE DWELLING PROJECTS
161 - Application of article five-A.

  161.  Application of article five-A. The provisions of this article
  shall apply to garden-type maisonette dwelling  projects  erected  under
  plans  filed  with the department on or after April eighteenth, nineteen
  hundred fifty-four. They shall apply to all such dwellings unless  their
  application  is  expressly  limited  to dwellings of a particular class.
  They shall apply in addition  to,  and  not  in  substitution  for,  the
  provisions  of  article  three.  Such dwellings need not comply with the
  provisions of sections  twenty-eight,  thirty-five,  thirty-six,  fifty,
  fifty-four, and sixty-five, or with articles four, five, six or seven of
  this chapter, but such dwellings shall comply with all of the provisions
  of  the  building  code applicable to residential buildings of this type
  and kind. A garden-type maisonette dwelling project, which is erected in
  accordance with the applicable provisions of this chapter for  fireproof
  or  non-fireproof  dwellings  other  than the provisions of this article
  five-A, shall not be required to comply  with  the  provisions  of  this
  article.