What's happening
This bill increases civil penalties for violations of building maintenance and operation laws in New York City.
Why it matters
Increases penalties for landlords and property owners. who fail to maintain buildings according to city housing standards, raising the financial stakes for violations and potentially incentivizing better compliance.
Distinguishes between types of violations (Class A, B, C),. with higher penalties for more serious or hazardous infractions, meaning that chronic or dangerous neglect—especially in larger buildings—will now come with steeper daily fines.
Raises penalties for false certification of repairs,. making it riskier for owners to claim violations have been fixed when they haven’t, which could lead to improved accountability and faster correction of unsafe conditions.
May result in increased costs for non-compliant landlords,. which could lead to improved living conditions for tenants but might also increase pressure on small property owners, potentially impacting rent or building management practices.
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Raise Fines for Building Violations
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Assembly Member · Assembly District 44
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History
- Referred to cities
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3510
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities
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.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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