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City of Mount Vernon, NY
Westchester County
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New Laws (27) Index Notes (1)
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Housing Code Applicable to Residential Premises."
The purpose of this chapter is to provide basic and uniform standards, in terms of performance objectives implemented by specific requirements, governing the condition, occupancy and maintenance of residential premises and establishing reasonable safeguards for the safety, health and welfare of the occupants and users thereof.
A. 
This chapter shall apply to residential premises as follows:
(1) 
Lots, plots or parcels of land on which residential buildings, buildings of mixed occupancy or accessory structures are located.
(2) 
Residential buildings, including one- and two-family dwellings and multiple dwellings.
(3) 
Accessory structures, accessory to residential occupancies.
(4) 
Residential occupancies in buildings of mixed occupancy.
B. 
This chapter shall not apply to transient-type occupancies and uses, including but not limited to nursing and convalescent homes, hotels, motels and other forms of temporary housing.
Where a provision of this chapter is found to be in conflict with a provision of a zoning, building, electrical, plumbing, fire, safety, health, water supply or sewage disposal law, code or ordinance,[1] or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, or other local law, ordinance, code or regulation, the provision or requirement which is the more restrictive or which establishes the higher standard shall prevail.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 98, Boilers and Other Equipment; Ch. 120, Electrical Standards; Ch. 131, Fire Prevention; Ch. 140, Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse; Ch. 211, Rooming Houses; Ch. 246, Trailers and Trailer Camps; Ch. 287, Zoning.
Installations, alterations and repairs to residential premises, and materials, assemblies and equipment utilized in connection therewith, shall be reasonably safe to persons and property and in conformity with applicable statutes of the State of New York. Conformity of such work, materials, assemblies or equipment with the applicable requirements of the Building Code of the City of Mount Vernon, New York, shall be prima facie evidence that the same is reasonably safe to persons and property.
If a term, part, provision, section, subsection or paragraph of this chapter shall be held unconstitutional, invalid or ineffective in whole or in part, such determination shall not be deemed to invalidate the remaining terms, parts, provisions, sections, subsections or paragraphs.