Section 666. Jurisdiction

The board shall have power:
    1.  To  make, amend and repeal rules and regulations for carrying into
  effect the provisions of the laws, resolutions, rules and regulations in
  respect to any subject-matter jurisdiction whereof is conferred  by  law
  upon  the board, and to include in such rules and regulations provisions
  applying to specific conditions and prescribing  means  and  methods  of
  practice  to effectuate such provisions and for carrying into effect the
  powers of the board.
    2. To make, amend and repeal rules and regulations for the enforcement
  of those provisions of the labor law and other laws which relate to  the
  construction  or  alteration  of,  structural  changes  in, plumbing and
  drainage of, elevators in, fire escapes on, adequacy and means  of  exit
  from,  or fire protection in, all buildings within the city, which shall
  take the place of the industrial code and of any rules  and  regulations
  of the department of labor of the state of New York relating to the same
  subject-matter.
    3.  To  make,  amend  and  repeal  rules,  regulations  and directives
  governing the preparation and presentation by the  director  of  matters
  before the board.
    4.  To  exercise exclusively with respect to buildings situated within
  the city, the same powers as are exercised by the department of labor of
  the state of New York elsewhere in the state.
    5. To determine and vary the application of the zoning  resolution  as
  may  be  provided in such resolution and pursuant to section six hundred
  sixty-eight.
    6. To hear and decide appeals from and review,
    (a) except as otherwise  provided  by  law,  any  order,  requirement,
  decision  or  determination  of  the  commissioner  of buildings or of a
  deputy commissioner  of  buildings  or  any  borough  superintendent  of
  buildings   acting   under  a  written  delegation  of  power  from  the
  commissioner of buildings filed in accordance  with  the  provisions  of
  section  six hundred forty-two or section six hundred forty-five of this
  charter, or
    (b) any order, requirement, decision  or  determination  of  the  fire
  commissioner  or  any  rule or regulation or amendment or repeal thereof
  made by the fire commissioner, or
    (c)  any  order,  requirement,  decision  or  determination   of   the
  commissioner  of  transportation  or the commissioner of ports and trade
  made in relation to the structures or uses on water front property under
  his  or  her  jurisdiction  in  connection  with  the   application   or
  enforcement  of  the  provisions of the zoning resolution of the city of
  New York, the labor law and such other laws, rules  and  regulations  as
  may  govern  the  construction, alteration, maintenance, use, occupancy,
  safety, sanitary conditions,  mechanical  equipment  and  inspection  of
  structures  in the city, under the authority conferred upon them by law,
  by reversing or affirming in whole or in part, or modifying  the  order,
  regulation,  decision  or  determination appealed from, and to make such
  order, requirement, decision or determination as in its opinion ought to
  be made in the premises, and to that end shall have  the  power  of  the
  officer  from whose ruling the appeal is taken, and of any officer under
  whose written delegation of power such ruling was made.
    7. In passing upon appeals, to vary or modify any rule  or  regulation
  or  the  provisions  of  any  law  relating  to  the  construction, use,
  structural changes, equipment, alteration or  removal  of  buildings  or
  structures,  or vaults in sidewalks appurtenant thereto, where there are
  practical difficulties or unnecessary hardship in the  way  of  carrying
  out the strict letter of the law, so that the spirit of the law shall be
  observed,  public  safety secured and substantial justice done, provided

  that  the  provisions  of  the  housing  maintenance  code  and  of  any
  regulation  or  order  issued  under such code may be varied or modified
  only to the extent permitted by such code and only  in  the  manner  and
  subject to the conditions therein specified.
    8.  To  review,  upon  motion  of  any  member of the board, any rule,
  regulation, amendment or repeal thereof,  and  any  order,  requirement,
  decision or determination from which an appeal may be taken to the board
  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter or of any law, or of any rule,
  regulation or decision of the board; but no such review shall  prejudice
  the  rights  of any person who has in good faith acted thereon before it
  is reversed or modified. The provisions  of  this  chapter  relating  to
  appeals to the board shall be applicable to such review.
    9. To afford an equal right to the city planning commission, community
  boards,  and borough boards and lessees and tenants as well as owners to
  appear before it for the purpose of proposing  arguments  or  submitting
  evidence  in  respect  of  any  matter brought before it pursuant to the
  zoning resolution of the city of New York.
    10. To issue such special permits as the board is authorized to  issue
  under the zoning resolution.
    11.  To  revoke  or modify, upon due notice and hearing, variances and
  special permits previously granted under the zoning  resolution  if  the
  terms and conditions of such grants have been violated.