§ 2. Definitions. When used in this act, unless a different meaning\nclearly appears from the context, the following terms shall mean and\ninclude:\n 1. "Commission". Prior to July first, nineteen hundred sixty-four, the\ntemporary state housing rent commission created by this act. On and\nafter July first, nineteen hundred sixty-four, the division of housing\nand community renewal in the executive department.\n 2. "Housing accommodation." Any building or structure, permanent or\ntemporary, or any part thereof, occupied or intended to be occupied by\none or more individuals as a residence, home, sleeping place, boarding\nhouse, lodging house or hotel, together with the land and buildings\nappurtenant thereto, and all services, privileges, furnishings,\nfurniture and facilities supplied in connection with the occupation\nthereof, including (a) entire structures or premises as distinguished\nfrom the individual housing accommodations contained therein, wherein\ntwenty-five or less rooms are rented or offered for rent by any lessee,\nsublessee or other tenant of such entire structure or premises, and (b)\nhousing accommodations which were previously exempt, or not subject to\ncontrol as a result of conversion or a change from a non-housing to a\nhousing use and which have subsequently been certified by a municipal\ndepartment having jurisdiction to be a fire hazard or in a continued\ndangerous condition or detrimental to life or health but only so long as\nsuch illegal or hazardous condition continues and further certification\nwith respect thereto shall not be required notwithstanding any\ninconsistent provision of this act, and any plot or parcel of land which\nhad been rented prior to May first, nineteen hundred fifty, for the\npurpose of permitting the tenant thereof to construct or place his own\ndwelling thereon, unless exempt or excluded from control pursuant to any\nother provision of this act, except that it shall not include structures\nin which all of the housing accommodations are exempt or not subject to\ncontrol under this act or any regulation issued thereunder; or\n (a) a hospital, convent, monastery, asylum, public institution, or\ncollege or school dormitory or any institution operated exclusively for\ncharitable or educational purposes on a non-profit basis; or\n (b) notwithstanding any previous order, finding, opinion or\ndetermination of the commission, housing accommodations in any\nestablishment which on March first, nineteen hundred fifty, was and\nstill is commonly regarded as a hotel in the community in which it is\nlocated and which customarily provides hotel services such as maid\nservice, furnishing and laundering of linen, telephone and secretarial\nor desk service, use and upkeep of furniture and fixtures and bellboy\nservice, provided, however, that the term hotel shall not include any\nestablishment which is commonly regarded in the community as a rooming\nhouse, nor shall it include any establishment not identified or\nclassified as a "hotel", "transient hotel" or "residential hotel"\npursuant to the federal act, irrespective whether such establishment\nprovides either some services customarily provided by hotels, or is\nrepresented to be a hotel, or both; and provided further that housing\naccommodations in hotels only within the cities of Buffalo and New York\nwhich have been and still are occupied by a tenant who has resided in\nsuch hotel continuously since December second, nineteen hundred\nforty-nine, so long as such tenant occupies the same, shall continue to\nremain subject to control under this act; or\n (c) any motor court, or any part thereof; any trailer, or trailer\nspace used exclusively for transient occupancy or any part thereof; or\nany tourist home serving transient guests exclusively, or any part\nthereof; or\n (d) nonhousekeeping, furnished housing accommodations, located within\na single dwelling unit not used as a rooming or boarding house, but only\nif (1) no more tha
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