§ 373. Required immediate applicability of existing state codes. 1.
The state building construction code provided for in article eighteen of
this chapter, as added by chapter eight hundred of the laws of nineteen
hundred fifty-one and the state building conservation and fire
prevention code provided for in article eighteen-A of this chapter shall
be applicable from and after the first day of March, nineteen hundred
eighty-two in every local government that does not on such date have in
effect a building or fire protection code. Said state building
construction code and state building conservation and fire prevention
code shall also be applicable in every local government that on the
first day of March, nineteen hundred eighty-two has a building or fire
prevention code in effect but which prior to the first day of January,
nineteen hundred eighty-four, repeals such code, provided, however, that
in the case of any such repeal, the state building construction code and
the state building conservation and fire prevention code shall apply
within such local government from and after the date of such repeal.

2. The secretary shall, within thirty days after the effective date of
this article, notify the elective or appointive chief executive officer
or, if there be none, the chairman of the legislative body of each local
government and county of the provisions of this section.

3. The secretary shall, within ninety days after the effective date of
this article, promulgate regulations establishing minimum standards for
administration and enforcement of the state building construction code
and the state building conservation and fire prevention code by local
governments to which this section applies.

4. Within sixty days after the effective date of the regulations
required by subdivision three of this section the elective or appointive
chief executive officer of each local government to which this section
applies shall report in writing to the executive or appointive chief
executive officer or, if there be none, the chairman of the county
legislative body of the county in which the local government is
situated, the measures it has taken or contemplates taking for
administration and enforcement of the state building construction code
and the state building conservation and fire prevention code.

5. Within one hundred twenty days after the effective date of the
regulations required by subdivision three of this section the elective
or appointive chief executive officer or, if there be none, the chairman
of the county legislative body shall forward to the secretary the
reports of the local governments required by subdivision four of this
section together with a report of the measures such county or local
government has taken or contemplates taking for administration and
enforcement of the state building construction code and the state
building conservation and fire prevention code.

6. On and after the first day of March, nineteen hundred eighty-two,
the provisions of subdivisions three, four and five of section three
hundred eighty-one of this article shall immediately apply to the
administration and enforcement of the state building construction code
and the state building conservation and fire prevention code by every
local government in which such codes have been made applicable pursuant
to this section.