§ 262. Alteration of uncompleted buildings. The provisions of this
chapter relating to multiple dwellings erected after April eighteenth,
nineteen hundred twenty-nine, shall not apply to any fireproof building
structurally enclosed but uncompleted on April first, nineteen hundred
forty-five, conforming to the provisions of the local zoning law or
resolution applicable to an apartment hotel, in effect at the time of
the approval of the original plans filed for the construction of such
building, and which building shall thereafter be altered and completed
as a class A multiple dwelling, in accordance with plans and amendments
thereto approved by the department. Such building, if so altered and
completed on or before July first, nineteen hundred forty-eight, may be
lawfully occupied thereafter as a class A multiple dwelling if it
conforms with the provisions of section twenty-five applicable to
fireproof class A multiple dwellings occupied as such before April
eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine.