Buffalo, NY — the municipal code, in plain language

Current through 2025-09-02. Official source: https://ecode360.com/BU1237

Every town writes its own rules, and Buffalo's live in its municipal code — 147 chapters covering day-to-day questions like fences, parking, pets, permits and property upkeep. Below is the full map of what the code covers.

What's in the Buffalo code

• Ch C — The Charter (§ 1-1 – § 32-8)
• Ch CDL — Disposition of Charter Legislation (§ CDL-1)
• Ch 1 — General Provisions (§ 1-1 – § 1-16)
• Ch 6 — Boards, Committees, Agencies and Commissions (§ 6-1 – § 6-60)
• Ch 12 — Ethics, Code of (§ 12-1 – § 12-28)
• Ch 16 — Finance (§ 16-1 – § 16-31)
• Ch 24 — Libraries (§ 24-1 – § 24-6)
• Ch 27 — Notice, Publication of (§ 27-1 – § 27-2)
• Ch 30 — Office Hours and Holidays (§ 30-1 – § 30-3)
• Ch 35 — Personnel Policies (§ 35-1 – § 35-37)
• Ch 37 — Police Department (§ 37-1)
• Ch 44 — Seal (§ 44-1)
• Ch 46 — Telecommunications, Office of (§ 46-1 – § 46-9)
• Ch 48 — Time, Official (§ 48-1)
• Ch 53 — Vehicles, City-Owned (§ 53-1 – § 53-2)
• Ch 63 — Aircraft (§ 63-1 – § 63-4)
• Ch 66 — Air Pollution (§ 66-1 – § 66-28)
• Ch 69 — Alcoholic Beverages (§ 69-1 – § 69-3)
• Ch 72 — Ambulances and Ambulance Drivers (§ 72-1 – § 72-14)
• Ch 75 — Amusements (§ 75-1 – § 75-22)
• Ch 78 — Animals (§ 78-1 – § 78-36)
• Ch 81 — Auctions and Auctioneers (§ 81-1 – § 81-17)
• Ch 85 — Bait Dippers (§ 85-1 – § 85-10)
• Ch 88 — Bakers and Confectioners (§ 88-1 – § 88-7)
• Ch 91 — Bicycle Paths (§ 91-1)
• Ch 92 — Billiard and Pool Rooms and Bowling Alleys (§ 92-1 – § 92-12)
• Ch 94 — Boilers and Engines; Engineers (§ 94-1 – § 94-31)
• Ch 96 — Bonds and Contracts (§ 96-1 – § 96-19)
• Ch 101 — Buildings, Cleaning of (§ 101-1 – § 101-5)
• Ch 103 — Building Construction and Demolition; Fire Prevention (§ 103-1 – § 103-73)
• Ch 107 — Buildings, Moving of (§ 107-1 – § 107-5)
• Ch 109 — Buildings, Numbering of (§ 109-1 – § 109-6)
• Ch 111 — Buildings, Public (§ 111-1 – § 111-8)
• Ch 113 — Buildings, Unsafe (§ 113-1 – § 113-15)
• Ch 116 — Burials (§ 116-1 – § 116-39)
• Ch 119 — Burning, Open (§ 119-1)
• Ch 120 — Bureau of Administrative Adjudication (§ 120-1 – § 120-11)
• Ch 122 — Business Identification and Registration (§ 122-1 – § 122-3)
• Ch 129 — Certificates of Occupancy (§ 129-1 – § 129-9)
• Ch 130 — Sales of Cannabis, Cannabis Products, and Products Marketed and Labeled as Such (§ 130-1 – § 130-21)
• Ch 131 — Certificate of Operation (§ 131-1 – § 131-11)
• Ch 132 — Tobacco/Hookah/Vaping Establishments (§ 132-1 – § 132-13)
• Ch 133 — City Property (§ 133-1 – § 133-22)
• Ch 137 — Code Enforcement (§ 137-1 – § 137-12)
• Ch 140 — Collection Agencies (§ 140-1 – § 140-12)
• Ch 141 — Collection of Arrears (§ 141-1 – § 141-4)
• Ch 142 — Collection Boxes (§ 142-1)
• Ch 143 — Consumer Electronics Installation and Repair (§ 143-1 – § 143-15)
• Ch 144 — Contractors (§ 144-1 – § 144-25)
• Ch 150 — Dances and Dance Halls (§ 150-1 – § 150-16)
• Ch 154 — Discrimination (§ 154-1 – § 154-29)
• Ch 158 — Diseases, Infectious (§ 158-1 – § 158-20)
• Ch 159 — Dentistry (§ 159-1 – § 159-4)
• Ch 160 — Domestic Partnership Registry (§ 160-1 – § 160-6)
• Ch 161 — Drugs (§ 161-1 – § 161-9)
• Ch 165 — Electricity (§ 165-1 – § 165-45)
• Ch 167 — Elevators and Conveyances (§ 167-1 – § 167-27)
• Ch 168 — Environmental Review (§ 168-1 – § 168-15)
• Ch 169 — Excavations and Quarries (§ 169-1 – § 169-8)
• Ch 175 — Fees (§ 175-1 – § 175-5)
• Ch 180 — Firearms, Arrows and Other Weapons (§ 180-1 – § 180-10)
• Ch 183 — Flags (§ 183-1 – § 183-4)
• Ch 186 — Flammable Liquids (§ 186-1 – § 186-27)
• Ch 193 — Food and Drugs (§ 193-1 – § 193-38)
• Ch 194 — Food Stores (§ 194-1 – § 194-9)
• Ch 199 — Fruits and Vegetables (§ 199-1 – § 199-15)
• Ch 203 — Fumigation (§ 203-1 – § 203-21)
• Ch 209 — Gambling (§ 209-1)
• Ch 213 — Games of Chance (§ 213-1 – § 213-25)
• Ch 216 — Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse (§ 216-1 – § 216-66)
• Ch 219 — Gasoline (§ 219-1 – § 219-12)
• Ch 226 — Grain (§ 226-1 – § 226-3)
• Ch 232 — Handbills and Other Publications (§ 232-1 – § 232-10)
• Ch 235 — Hazardous Materials and Wastes (§ 235-1 – § 235-20)
• Ch 238 — Heating (§ 238-1 – § 238-32)
• Ch 242 — Housing Standards (§ 242-1 – § 242-17)
• Ch 249 — Inspections (§ 249-1 – § 249-12)
• Ch 254 — Junk Dealers and Pawnbrokers (§ 254-1 – § 254-37)
• Ch 259 — Laundries and Clothes Cleaners (§ 259-1 – § 259-15)
• Ch 261 — Lead-Based Paint Abatement (§ 261-1 – § 261-9)
• Ch 263 — Licenses (§ 263-1 – § 263-40)
• Ch 264 — Rental Dwelling Unit Registration (§ 264-1 – § 264-21)
• Ch 265 — Property Managers (§ 265-1 – § 265-13)
• Ch 266 — Liquefied Petroleum Gas (§ 266-1 – § 266-5)
• Ch 269 — Lodging Houses (§ 269-1 – § 269-14)
• Ch 270 — Eviction for Illegal Drug Use and Possession (§ 270-1 – § 270-5)
• Ch 275 — Markets (§ 275-1 – § 275-2)
• Ch 277 — Mortgage in Default Property Registry (§ 277-1 – § 277-11)
• Ch 278 — Motion Pictures (§ 278-1 – § 278-13)
• Ch 281 — Multiple Housing (§ 281-1 – § 281-12)
• Ch 286 — Naming of Streets, Parks and Public Buildings (§ 286-1 – § 286-6)
• Ch 288 — Natural Gas Extraction (§ 288-1 – § 288-9)
• Ch 289 — Newsstands (§ 289-1 – § 289-5)
• Ch 293 — Noise (§ 293-1 – § 293-7)
• Ch 294 — Nuisance Abatement (§ 294-1 – § 294-23)
• Ch 295 — Nuisance Party (§ 295-1 – § 295-4)
• Ch 299 — Obscenity (§ 299-1 – § 299-11)
• Ch 302 — Oil and Gas Wells (§ 302-1 – § 302-7)
• Ch 307 — Parking and Parking Lots (§ 307-1 – § 307-85)
• Ch 309 — Parks and Other Open Spaces (§ 309-1 – § 309-37)
• Ch 313 — Peace and Good Order (§ 313-1 – § 313-4)
• Ch 316 — Peddling and Soliciting (§ 316-1 – § 316-77)
• Ch 317 — Aggressive Panhandling (§ 317-1 – § 317-5)
• Ch 319 — Performers, Outdoor (§ 319-1 – § 319-10)
• Ch 326 — Plumbing (§ 326-1 – § 326-29)
• Ch 330 — Poles and Wires (§ 330-1 – § 330-21)
• Ch 333 — Police Shields, Use of (§ 333-1)
• Ch 337 — Preservation Standards (§ 337-1 – § 337-33)
• Ch 341 — Property Maintenance (§ 341-1 – § 341-14)
• Ch 343 — Promoting General Welfare of Minors in Public Places (§ 343-1 – § 343-6)
• Ch 345 — Public Safety, Obstruction of (§ 345-1 – § 345-9)
• Ch 352 — Railroads (§ 352-1 – § 352-6)
• Ch 356 — Rat Control (§ 356-1 – § 356-8)
• Ch 361 — Records (§ 361-1 – § 361-23)
• Ch 365 — Refrigerators (§ 365-1)
• Ch 370 — Restaurants (§ 370-1 – § 370-19)
• Ch 372 — Bouncers (§ 372-1 – § 372-10)
• Ch 378 — Sanitation (§ 378-1 – § 378-6)
• Ch 380 — Short-Term Rental Housing (§ 380-1 – § 380-25)
• Ch 383 — Shortwave Broadcasts (§ 383-1 – § 383-2)
• Ch 391 — Slaughterhouses (§ 391-1 – § 391-12)
• Ch 395 — Smoke Detectors (§ 395-1 – § 395-7)
• Ch 399 — Smoking (§ 399-1 – § 399-18)
• Ch 409 — Statues and Monuments; Public Art (§ 409-1 – § 409-9)
• Ch 413 — Streets and Sidewalks (§ 413-1 – § 413-70)
• Ch 414 — Special Events (§ 414-1 – § 414-14)
• Ch 417 — Strikebreakers (§ 417-1)
• Ch 430 — Swimming Pools (§ 430-1 – § 430-9)
• Ch 431 — Tax Preparers, Regulation of (§ 431-1 – § 431-6)
• Ch 437 — Taxicabs, Liveries and Sightseeing Buses (§ 437-1 – § 437-21)
• Ch 440 — Telecommunications (§ 440-1 – § 440-40)
• Ch 441 — Telephone Facilities (§ 441-1 – § 441-4)
• Ch 442 — Wireless Facilities in Public Right-Of-Way (§ 442-1 – § 442-11)
• Ch 449 — Tires (§ 449-1)
• Ch 452 — Alcohol Advertising (§ 452-1 – § 452-11)
• Ch 454 — Tow Trucks and Motor Vehicle Booting (§ 454-1 – § 454-52)
• Ch 459 — Trailers (§ 459-1)
• Ch 463 — Transient Businesses; Trade Shows and Festivals (§ 463-1 – § 463-7)
• Ch 467 — Trees, Shrubs and Plants (§ 467-1 – § 467-10)
• Ch 479 — Vehicles and Traffic (§ 479-1 – § 479-5)
• Ch 483 — Vending Machines (§ 483-1 – § 483-18)
• Ch 491 — Water and Water Pollution (§ 491-1 – § 491-81)
• Ch 495 — Wharves, Harbors and Bridges (§ 495-1 – § 495-34)
• Ch 496 — Unified Development Ordinance
• Ch 501 — Wood and Coal (§ 501-1 – § 501-9)
• Ch DT — Distribution Table (§ DT-1)
• Ch DL — Disposition List (§ DL-1)