New York Laws
Title 2 - General Provisions
13 - Enforcement: Against Officers.

ยง 13. Enforcement: against officers. The performance of any duty or
the doing of any act enjoined, prescribed or required by this chapter,
may be enforced by a proceeding pursuant to article seventy-eight of the
civil practice law and rules at the instance of the department or of a
local board of health, or of any citizen of full age resident of the
municipality where the duty should be performed or the act done.