* § 219-e. Suspension of building restrictions. 1. The provisions of
the multiple dwelling law and of any other law, charter, administrative
code, building law, local law, ordinance, rule or regulation pertaining
to the construction, maintenance, use and occupation of housing
accommodations and incidental facilities, as well as the provisions of
any general, special or local law, rule or regulation pertaining to the
planning and zoning of buildings, shall not apply to the construction by
a government or authority of an emergency project, and shall be
suspended with respect to the maintenance, use and occupation thereof,
and the equipment and fixtures contained therein, as long as such
project is operated by a government or authority for the purpose of
providing emergency housing, or by an educational institution to which
the rights and interest of the United States have been, or shall
hereafter be, relinquished and transferred pursuant to the provisions of
chapter six hundred eighty-eight, public law seven hundred ninety-six of
the eightieth Congress (section fifteen hundred seventy-five of title
forty-two, U. S. code) or any amendment thereto, for the purpose of
providing emergency housing. Any provision of general, special, or local
law or any rule or regulation requiring the issuance of a certificate of
occupancy or other form of license or permit, as a condition to the
occupancy of any building, shall likewise be suspended with regard to
emergency projects.

2. The provisions of this section shall remain in effect during the
period of the housing emergency and the acute shortage of housing
accommodations but in no event beyond July first, nineteen hundred
fifty-four.

* NB Expired July 1, 1954 by its own terms