* § 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