N.Y. LAB Law § 473

§ 473. Certificate of compliance with requirements of law. 1. The\nenforcing authority shall ascertain by inspection whether places of\npublic assembly conform to the requirements of this article and the\nrules adopted thereunder. If such places are found to so conform, he or\nit shall issue a certificate of compliance to that effect. Such\ncertificate shall be conspicuously posted on the premises. Before any\ncertificate of compliance shall be issued to a place of public assembly\nerected after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-two,\nplans for such building shall be filed with the industrial commissioner\nor with the local enforcing authority for approval, and such plans shall\nnot be approved unless they conform to the provisions of this article\nand the rules adopted thereunder. The industrial commissioner shall not\nrequire the filing of plans before the issuance of a certificate of\ncompliance for a place of public assembly erected before July first,\nnineteen hundred sixty-three over which enforcement jurisdiction was\ndelegated to the industrial commissioner on such date, nor for a place\nof public assembly which may be transferred to his jurisdiction pursuant\nto paragraph (b) of section four hundred seventy-two of this article.\n 2. A fee not to exceed one hundred dollars shall be charged to and\ncollected from the owner, lessee or person conducting the place of\nassembly for each inspection, but not more than two hundred dollars in\nany one year shall be so charged or collected, in respect of the same\npremises, except that no fee shall be charged for inspection of\nbuildings operated as a public place of assembly by any political\nsubdivision or by an agricultural society or association receiving state\naid; provided, however, that no fee shall be charged to or collected\nfrom a volunteer fire company or an organization of veterans for the\ninspection of any place of public assembly operated by such a volunteer\nfire company or organization of veterans.\n