APPENDIX V.
 

PART I.

THE STATUTORY PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION,
ALTERATION OR REMOVAL OF BUILDINGS OR OTHER STRUC¬
TURE IN THE MUNICIPALITY HERETOFORE KNOWN AS THE
MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COMMONALTY OF THE CITY OF NEW
.YORK, CONSTITUTING TITLE 5 OF CHAPTER 11, LAWS OP 1882,
CHAPTER 410, CONTINUED IN FORCE BY SECTION 647 OF THE
GREATER NEW YORK CHARTER, ante.

(With refereuces lo judicial decisions.)

L. 1882, CH. 410.

CHAPTER XI.

TITLE Y.
Construction of Buildings.

General rule as to construction of buildings. Projection of buildings
upon streets.
§ 471, No wall, structure, building, part or parts thereof, shall hereafter
be built, constructed, altered or repaired in said city, excepting in con¬
formity with the provisions of this title. No building already erected
or hereafter to be built in said city, shall be raised, altered or built upon,
in such manner that were such building wholly built or constructed after
the passage of this act it would be in violation of any of the provisions
of this title. If the front cr other exterior wall of any building now
standing in said city shall extend not more than four inches upon any
street, avenue or public place, such wall shall not be removable, unless
an action or proceeding shall be instituted by or in behalf of the mayor,
aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York within the period of
one year from the passage of this act, for the removal of said wall, and
notice of pendency of such action or proceeding be thereupon filed in the
office of the clerk of the city and county of New York, and indexed
against the owner and the premises in manner and form as shall be
required by law in the ease of iho filing of a mechanics' lien in the city of
New York. And if a structure, part of a building now standing in said
city, known as a bay-window or oriel window, shall extend not more than
twelve inches upon any street, avenue or public place, said structure shall
not be removable unless an action or proceeding shall be instituted by, or
in behalf of, the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of Ne^w
York, for the removal of such structure within one year from the passage
of this act, and notice of pendency of such action or proceeding be there-