262 - Alteration of uncompleted buildings.

§  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.