Section 276. Inspection of buildings and approval of plans

1.  Inspection
  of buildings. The officer of any city, village or town having  power  to
  inspect   buildings   therein  to  determine  their  conformity  to  the
  requirements of law or ordinance  governing  their  construction  shall,
  whenever  requested  by  the  commissioner, inspect any factory building
  therein and certify to the commissioner whether such  building  conforms
  to  the  requirements  of  this chapter and the rules of the board. Such
  certificate shall be presumptive evidence of the truth  of  the  matters
  therein stated.
    2. Approval of plans. Before constructing or altering a building to be
  used  for  a  factory,  the  plans  and  specifications  therefor may be
  submitted to the commissioner in such form as he may  require.  If  they
  comply with the requirements of this chapter and the rules of the board,
  the  commissioner  shall  issue  his  certificate approving the same. No
  permit for the construction of  any  building  or  structure,  which  is
  required  to  conform to the structural requirements of the labor law or
  the rules adopted thereunder shall be issued by an  enforcing  authority
  in  any city or village of this state except as provided by chapter five
  hundred and three of the laws of nineteen hundred  sixteen  as  amended,
  until  the plans have been approved by the commissioner.  Nothing herein
  shall prohibit any local authority from issuing a temporary  permit  for
  excavation  and  foundations  and such temporary permit also shall issue
  upon notice from the department of labor of the receipt of a request for
  a variation as provided for in section  thirty  of  this  chapter.  Such
  certificate  shall  be  presumptive evidence of the truth of the matters
  therein stated.
    3. Certificate of compliance. After such  construction  or  alteration
  shall  be  completed,  the  commissioner  shall  ascertain by inspection
  whether the building conforms substantially to the requirements of  this
  chapter  and  the  rules of the board. If the commissioner finds that it
  does so conform he shall  issue  his  certificate  to  that  effect.  No
  building  or  structure hereafter erected, or altered, which is required
  to conform to the structural requirements of the labor law or the  rules
  adopted thereunder, shall be used or occupied without such certificate.