§ 309. Repairs, vacation and demolition of buildings. 1. a. The term\n"nuisance" shall be held to embrace public nuisance as known at common\nlaw or in equity jurisprudence. Whatever is dangerous to human life or\ndetrimental to health, and whatever dwelling is overcrowded with\noccupants or is not provided with adequate ingress and egress or is not\nsufficiently supported, ventilated, sewered, drained, cleaned, or\nlighted in reference to its intended or actual use, and whatever renders\nthe air or human food or drink unwholesome, are also severally, in\ncontemplation of this law, nuisances. All such nuisances are unlawful.\n b. Whenever the department shall certify that any multiple dwelling,\nor any part of its premises, or the plumbing, sewerage, drainage,\nlighting or ventilation thereof, is in a condition or in effect\ndangerous to life or health, the department may, after giving notice to\nthe owner and an opportunity to be heard at a hearing held for such\npurpose declare the same, to the extent it may specify, a public\nnuisance. Such declaration shall be filed as provided by section three\nhundred twenty-eight of this chapter, if applicable, or as a public\nrecord in the department. The officers of a corporation upon which\nnotice of such hearing has been served other than a banking organization\nas defined in section two of the banking law, a national banking\nassociation, a federal savings and loan association, The Mortgage\nFacilities Corporation, Savings Banks Life Insurance Fund, The Savings\nBanks Retirement System, an authorized insurer as defined in section one\nhundred seven of the insurance law, or a trust company or other\ncorporation organized under the laws of this state all the capital stock\nof which is owned by at least twenty savings banks or a subsidiary\ncorporation all of the capital stock of which is owned by such trust\ncompany or other corporation, shall serve similar notice on all\nstockholders of record of the corporation and other persons known to be\nstockholders or beneficial owners of the stock of the corporation. A\nstockholder upon whom such notice has been served shall serve similar\nnotice upon any persons holding a beneficial interest in his stock.\n c. The department may order or cause such nuisance to be removed,\nabated, suspended, purified, altered, repaired or otherwise improved as\nthe order shall specify.\n d. The department may order or cause any multiple dwelling or any part\nof its premises, or any excavation, structure, sewer, plumbing, pipe,\npassage, matter or thing in or about such premises to be purified,\ncleansed, disinfected, removed, altered, repaired or improved.\n e. Whenever the department shall certify that a nuisance exists in a\nmultiple dwelling, or any part of its premises, which constitutes a\nserious fire hazard or is a serious threat to life, health or safety,\nthe department may issue a written order to the owner directing the\nremoval or remedying of such nuisance in the manner and within the time\nspecified in such order which shall be not less than twenty-one days\nafter the service thereof on the owner in the manner specified in\nsubdivision one of section three hundred twenty-six of this chapter\nexcept that if the department shall determine that the condition is such\nthat a delay of twenty-one days in remedying or removing the same may\ncause irreparable harm to the building or constitutes an imminent danger\nto its occupants, or the occupants of adjoining property or the general\npublic, then the time specified for such remedy or removal may be less\nthan twenty-one days.\n f. If any order of the department is not complied with or not so far\ncomplied with as the department may regard as reasonable, within the\ntime therein designated, then such order may be executed by the\ndepartment, its agents or contractors, or, as an alternative, if the\nmultiple dwelling involved shall have been declared to be a public\nnuisance pursuant to paragraph
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