What's happening
This bill increases civil penalties for violations of New York City housing maintenance and operation laws.
Why it matters
Increases financial consequences for landlords and property owners. who fail to meet housing standards, potentially making it more expensive to ignore maintenance and repair issues.
Targets more severe violations with steeper daily penalties. , especially for Class B (hazardous) and Class C (immediately hazardous) violations, which could incentivize faster correction of dangerous conditions affecting tenants’ health and safety.
Raises penalties for false certification of violation correction. , aiming to deter dishonest reporting by property owners and improve overall compliance with housing laws.
May improve living conditions in multifamily dwellings. by encouraging more diligent property management, especially in larger buildings where higher daily fines for severe violations now apply.
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Increase Fines for Unsafe Buildings
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- Referred to housing, construction and community development
- Referred to housing, construction and community development
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Raise Building Violation Fines
In Assembly Committee · Cities · Sponsor Robert C. Carroll
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STATE OF NEW YORK
580
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE (Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
Introduced by Sen. PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the imposition of civil penalties for violation of state and local laws for building maintenance and operation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 27-2115 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 65 of the city of New York for the year 1987, is amended to read as follows:
(a) A person who violates any law relating to housing standards shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than [ten] fifteen dollars nor more than [fifty] seventy-five dollars for each [non-hazardous] class A violation, not less than [twenty-five] fifty dollars nor more than [one] two hundred [dollars] and [ten] twenty dollars per day for each [hazardous] class B violation, and fifty dollars per day for each [immediately hazardous] class C violation, occurring in a multiple dwelling containing five or fewer dwelling units, from the date set for correction in the notice of violation until the violation is corrected, and not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred fifty dollars and, in addition, one hundred twenty-five dollars per day for each [immediately hazardous] class C violation, occurring in a multiple dwelling containing more than five dwelling units, from the date set for correction in the notice of violation until the violation is corrected. A person wilfully making a false certification of correction of a violation shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than [fifty] seventy-five dollars nor more than [two hundred fifty] three hundred dollars for each violation falsely certified, in addition to the other penalties herein provided.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00068-01-7
S. 580 2
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
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Title of bill
An act to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the imposition of civil penalties for violation of state and local laws for building maintenance and operation
Purpose
To increase penalties for violation of laws for building maintenance and operation.
Summary of provisions
Subdivision (a) of section 27-2115 of the administrative code of the City of New York, as amended by local law number 65 of the city of New York for the year 1987 is amended. The bill would increase, to a more reasonable amount, fines for violation of state and local laws pertaining to building maintenance and operation. Violation of any law relating to housing standards shall bring a penalty of not less than fifteen dollars, nor more than seventy-five dollars for each class A violation; not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred and twenty dollars per day for each class B violation; and fifty dollars per day for each class C violation occurring in a multiple dwelling containing five or fewer dwelling units, from the date set for correction in the notice of violation until the violation is corrected, and not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred fifty dollars per day for each class C violation, occurring in a multiple dwelling containing more than five dwelling units, from the date set for correction in the notice of violation until the violation is corrected. Fines for false certification of correction shall be raised to not less than seventy-five dollars or more than three hundred dollars for each violation falsely certified.
Justification
Passage of the bill is important to keep fines for building violation in line with present day costs. This is especially important in the area of dangerous violations, where there is a threat to health or life. The present fines are so low that it is often less expensive for an owner found violating the law to pay a fine a number of times than to improve the building.
Legislative history
2015-2016 - S1310 2013-2014 - S.59 2011-12: S.601 2010: S.7393/A.10627
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
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