N.Y. PVH Law § 576-B

§ 576-b. Special provisions with respect to state urban development\ncorporation projects. Any state urban development corporation project\nshall comply with the requirements of local laws, ordinances, codes,\ncharters or regulations applicable to the construction, reconstruction,\nrehabilitation, alteration or improvement of such project, except where\nthe state urban development corporation, in its discretion, finds such\ncompliance not feasible or practicable, in which event such project\nshall comply with the requirements of the state building construction\ncode, formulated by the state building code council pursuant to article\neighteen of the executive law, applicable to such construction,\nreconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration or improvement. No county,\ncity, town or village shall have power to modify or change the drawings,\nplans or specifications for the construction, reconstruction,\nrehabilitation, or improvement of any such project or the construction,\nplumbing, heating, lighting or other mechanical branch of work necessary\nto complete the work in question, nor to require that any person, firm\nor corporation employed on any such work shall perform any such work in\nany other or different manner than that provided by such plans and\nspecifications, nor to require that any such person, firm or corporation\nobtain any other or additional authority, approval, permit or\ncertificate from such county, city, town or village as a condition of\ndoing such work, nor shall any condition whatever be imposed by any such\ncounty, city, town or village in relation to the work being done, and\nthe doing of any such work by any person, firm or corporation in\naccordance with the terms of such drawings, plans, specifications or\ncontracts shall not subject said person, firm or corporation to any\nliability or penalty, civil or criminal, other than as may be stated in\nsuch contracts or incidental to the proper enforcement thereof; nor\nshall any county, city, town or village have power to require that any\nsubsidiary of the New York state urban development corporation, or any\nlessee therefrom or successor in interest thereto, obtain any other or\nadditional authority, approval, permit, certificate or certificate of\noccupancy from such county, city, town or village as a condition of\nowning, using, maintaining, operating or occupying any project acquired,\nconstructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated or improved by any such\nsubsidiary of the New York state urban development corporation.\n