Syracuse, N.Y., Rev. Gen. Ord. ch. 27 § 27-148

(a) A conditional rental registry certificate may be issued by the director of code enforcement or their designee to an owner of a one-family and/or two-family non-owner occupied dwelling whose rental registry certificate is applied for or eligible for renewal between the period of October 15 and March 31 if, at the time of registration, the owner has satisfied the requirements of section 27-133 (a)(1), (2), (5) and (6) above, in that they have completed the rental registry certificate application form and disclosed all required information to the satisfaction of the division of code enforcement; they have paid all the required fees detailed in section 27-132 above; they are current on all taxes and water bills for the property being registered; and they have no pending nuisance abatement proceedings or orders of closure for the property being registered but they are unable to satisfy the remaining requirements of section 27-133 (a)(3), (4) and (7) to have no outstanding code violations, to complete an affidavit of compliance and to pass an interior and exterior inspection of the property due to seasonal weather conditions that make it impracticable for the owner to address exterior non-immediate health or safety code violations issued on or after October 15 of the year of the rental registry application and prior to April 1 of the following year.
(b) An owner seeking a conditional rental registry certificate shall complete an affidavit of compliance, pursuant to the requirements of section 27-140 , affirming that the property substantially satisfies each code requirement listed in the checklist on the affidavit of compliance with the exception of the identified exterior non-immediate health or safety violation for which the owner intends to remedy and submit a request for exterior inspection to the division of code enforcement prior to June 21 in order to be cleared of the violation.
(c) Owners issued a conditional rental registry certificate shall submit a request for an exterior inspection to the division of code enforcement prior to June 21. An owner must pass an exterior inspection conducted by an employee of the division of code enforcement to be cleared of the exterior non-immediate health or safety code violation and satisfy the condition by which the rental registry certificate was issued.
(c) A conditional rental registry certificate shall be converted to a rental registry certificate once the property is cleared of its identified exterior non-immediate health or safety code violation. The three-year term of the rental registry certificate will be considered to run for three (3) years from the date of issuance of the conditional rental registry certificate.
(d) A conditional rental registry certificate is void if:
(1) The owner fails to submit a request for an exterior inspection to the division of code enforcement prior to June 21;
(2) The owner fails an exterior inspection conducted by an employee of the division of code enforcement requested prior to June 21 but conducted after June 21;
(3) The owner's property is cited for any additional code violations prior to or concurrent with the performance of the requested exterior inspection of the property by an employee of the division of code enforcement; or
(4) The owner fails to continue to meet the requirements of section 27-133 (a)(1), (2), (5) and (6) above.
(e) A conditional rental registry certificate may only be granted to a property once every three (3) years.