Section 17-513.1. Effective dates for membership associations, owner operated bars and tobacco bars

a. Any entity who in good faith believes itself  to be a membership association shall have one hundred eighty  days  from
  the  effective date of the local law that added this section to apply to
  the department of health  and  mental  hygiene  for  registration  as  a
  membership  association.  During  the  period of time from the effective
  date of the local law which added this section until the  expiration  of
  one  hundred  eighty days, no provision of the local law that added this
  section, except for the provisions of this section, shall apply to  such
  entity,  but  all  provisions  of  local  law  5 for the year 1995 shall
  continue to apply to such entity.
    b. Any entity who in  good  faith  believes  itself  to  be  an  owner
  operated  bar shall have one hundred eighty days from the effective date
  of the local law that added this section to apply to the  department  of
  health  and  mental  hygiene  for registration as an owner operated bar.
  During the period of time from the effective date of the local law which
  added this section until the expiration of one hundred eighty  days,  no
  provision  of  the  local  law  that  added this section, except for the
  provisions of  this  section,  shall  apply  to  such  entity,  but  all
  provisions  of  local law 5 for the year 1995 shall continue to apply to
  such entity.
    c. Any entity who in good faith believes itself to be  a  tobacco  bar
  shall  have one hundred eighty days from the effective date of the local
  law that added this section to apply to the  department  of  health  and
  mental  hygiene  for registration as a tobacco bar. During the period of
  time from the effective date of the local law which added  this  section
  until  the  expiration  of  one hundred eighty days, no provision of the
  local law that added this section, except for  the  provisions  of  this
  section,  shall  apply to such entity, but all provisions of local law 5
  for the year 1995 shall continue to apply to such entity.