§ 576-b. Special provisions with respect to state urban development
corporation projects. Any state urban development corporation project
shall comply with the requirements of local laws, ordinances, codes,
charters or regulations applicable to the construction, reconstruction,
rehabilitation, alteration or improvement of such project, except where
the state urban development corporation, in its discretion, finds such
compliance not feasible or practicable, in which event such project
shall comply with the requirements of the state building construction
code, formulated by the state building code council pursuant to article
eighteen of the executive law, applicable to such construction,
reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration or improvement. No county,
city, town or village shall have power to modify or change the drawings,
plans or specifications for the construction, reconstruction,
rehabilitation, or improvement of any such project or the construction,
plumbing, heating, lighting or other mechanical branch of work necessary
to complete the work in question, nor to require that any person, firm
or corporation employed on any such work shall perform any such work in
any other or different manner than that provided by such plans and
specifications, nor to require that any such person, firm or corporation
obtain any other or additional authority, approval, permit or
certificate from such county, city, town or village as a condition of
doing such work, nor shall any condition whatever be imposed by any such
county, city, town or village in relation to the work being done, and
the doing of any such work by any person, firm or corporation in
accordance with the terms of such drawings, plans, specifications or
contracts shall not subject said person, firm or corporation to any
liability or penalty, civil or criminal, other than as may be stated in
such contracts or incidental to the proper enforcement thereof; nor
shall any county, city, town or village have power to require that any
subsidiary of the New York state urban development corporation, or any
lessee therefrom or successor in interest thereto, obtain any other or
additional authority, approval, permit, certificate or certificate of
occupancy from such county, city, town or village as a condition of
owning, using, maintaining, operating or occupying any project acquired,
constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated or improved by any such
subsidiary of the New York state urban development corporation.