ยง 801-a. Application to certain garden-type maisonette dwelling
projects. For purposes of this article an existing multiple dwelling
shall be deemed to include any garden-type maisonette dwelling project
consisting of a series of dwelling units which together and in their
aggregate were arranged or designed to provide three or more apartments
and are provided as a group collectively with all essential services
such as, but not limited to, water supply, house sewers and heat, and
which are in existence and operated as a unit under single ownership on
the date upon which an application for a loan pursuant to this article
is received by the municipality, notwithstanding that certificates of
occupancy were issued for portions thereof as private dwellings.