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lessee or tenant of any part of a building or premises in which part such 

 violation has been committed or shall exist, and the general agent, architect, 

 builder, contractor or any other person who commits, takes part or assists 

 in such violation or who maintains any building or premises in which any 

 such violation shall exist, shall be liable to the same legal procedure and the 

 same penalties as are prescribed in any law, statute or ordinance for viola- 

 tions of the Building Code, and for such violations the same legal remedies 

 shall be had and they shall be prosecuted in the same manner as prescribed 

 in any law or ordinance in the case of violations of said Building Code. 



§ 23. Amendments, Alterations and Changes in District Lines. The 

 Board of Estimate and Apportionment may from time to time on its own 

 motion or on petition, after public notice and hearing, amend, supplement or 

 change the regulations and districts herein established. Whenever the 

 owners of 50 per cent or more of the frontage in any district or part thereof 

 shall present a petition duly signed and acknowledged to the Board of 

 Estimate and Apportionment requesting an amendment, supplement, change 

 or repeal of the regulations prescribed for such district or part thereof, it 

 shall be the duty oi the Board to vote upon said petition within 90 days 

 after the filing of the same by the petitioners with the secretary of the 

 Board. If, however, a protest against such amendment, supplement or 

 change be presented, duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of 20 

 per cent or more of any frontage proposed to be altered, or by the owners 

 of 20 per cent of the frontage immediately in the rear thereof, or by the 

 owners of 20 per cent of the frontage directly opposite the frontage pro- 

 posed to be altered, such amendment shall not be passed except by the 

 unanimous vote of the Board. If any area is hereafter transferred to 

 another district by a change in district boundaries by an amendment, as 

 above provided, the provisions of this resolution in regard to buildings 

 or premises existing at the time of the passage of this resolution shall apply 

 to buildings or premises existing at the time of passage of such amendment 

 in such transferred area. 



§24. Completion and Restoration of Existing Buildings, (a) Nothing 

 herein contained shall require any change in the plans, construction or desig- 

 nated use of a building for which a building permit has been heretofore 

 issued, or plans for which are on file with the building superintendent or 

 with the tenement house department at the time of the passage of this 

 resolution, and a permit for the erection of which is issued within three 

 months of the passage of this resolution and the construction of which, in 

 either case shall have been diligently prosecuted within a year of the date 

 of such permit, and the ground story framework of which, including the 

 second tier of beams, shall have been completed within such year, and which 

 entire building shall be completed according to such plans as filed within 

 five years from the date of the passage of this resolution. 



(h) Nothing in this resolution shall prevent the restoration of a build- 

 ing wholly or partly destroyed by fire, explosion, act of God or act of the 

 public enemy or prevent the continuance of the use of such building or part 

 thereof as such use existed at the time of such destruction of such building 

 or part thereof or prevent a change of such existing use under the limitations 

 provided in Section 6. Nothing in this resolution shall prevent the restora- 

 tion of a wall declared unsafe by the superintendent of buildings or a board 

 of survey. 



§ 25. When Effcctk'e. This resolution shall take effect immediately. 



