Section 219-E. Suspension of building restrictions

1. The provisions of
  the multiple dwelling law and of any other law, charter,  administrative
  code,  building law, local law, ordinance, rule or regulation pertaining
  to  the  construction,  maintenance,  use  and  occupation  of   housing
  accommodations  and  incidental facilities, as well as the provisions of
  any general, special or local law, rule or regulation pertaining to  the
  planning and zoning of buildings, shall not apply to the construction by
  a  government  or  authority  of  an  emergency  project,  and  shall be
  suspended with respect to the maintenance, use and  occupation  thereof,
  and  the  equipment  and  fixtures  contained  therein,  as long as such
  project is operated by a government or  authority  for  the  purpose  of
  providing  emergency  housing, or by an educational institution to which
  the rights and interest  of  the  United  States  have  been,  or  shall
  hereafter be, relinquished and transferred pursuant to the provisions of
  chapter six hundred eighty-eight, public law seven hundred ninety-six of
  the  eightieth  Congress  (section fifteen hundred seventy-five of title
  forty-two, U. S. code) or any amendment  thereto,  for  the  purpose  of
  providing emergency housing. Any provision of general, special, or local
  law or any rule or regulation requiring the issuance of a certificate of
  occupancy  or  other  form  of  license or permit, as a condition to the
  occupancy of any building, shall likewise be suspended  with  regard  to
  emergency projects.
    2.  The  provisions  of this section shall remain in effect during the
  period of the housing  emergency  and  the  acute  shortage  of  housing
  accommodations  but  in  no  event  beyond  July first, nineteen hundred
  fifty-four.
    * NB Expired July 1, 1954 by its own terms