§ 161. Application of article five-A. The provisions of this article
shall apply to garden-type maisonette dwelling projects erected under
plans filed with the department on or after April eighteenth, nineteen
hundred fifty-four. They shall apply to all such dwellings unless their
application is expressly limited to dwellings of a particular class.
They shall apply in addition to, and not in substitution for, the
provisions of article three. Such dwellings need not comply with the
provisions of sections twenty-eight, thirty-five, thirty-six, fifty,
fifty-four, and sixty-five, or with articles four, five, six or seven of
this chapter, but such dwellings shall comply with all of the provisions
of the building code applicable to residential buildings of this type
and kind. A garden-type maisonette dwelling project, which is erected in
accordance with the applicable provisions of this chapter for fireproof
or non-fireproof dwellings other than the provisions of this article
five-A, shall not be required to comply with the provisions of this
article.