Bill Text: NY A03988 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3988 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Increases civil penalties for violations of state and local laws which pertain to building maintenance and operation within the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to cities [A03988 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A03988-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3988
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 1, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. BRENNAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee 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  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.   Subdivision (a) of section 27-2115 of the administrative
    2  code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 65  of  the
    3  city of New York for the year 1987, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (a)  A person who violates any law relating to housing standards shall
    5  be subject to a civil penalty of not less than [ten] FIFTEEN dollars nor
    6  more  than [fifty] SEVENTY-FIVE dollars for each [non-hazardous] CLASS A
    7  violation, not less than [twenty-five] FIFTY dollars nor more than [one]
    8  TWO hundred [dollars] and [ten] TWENTY dollars per day for each [hazard-
    9  ous] CLASS B violation, AND fifty dollars per day for each  [immediately
   10  hazardous]  CLASS C violation, occurring in a multiple dwelling contain-
   11  ing five or fewer dwelling units, from the date set  for  correction  in
   12  the  notice  of violation until the violation is corrected, and not less
   13  than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred fifty dollars and, in addi-
   14  tion, one hundred twenty-five dollars  per  day  for  each  [immediately
   15  hazardous]  CLASS C violation, occurring in a multiple dwelling contain-
   16  ing more than five dwelling units, from the date set for  correction  in
   17  the  notice  of  violation  until the violation is corrected.   A person
   18  wilfully making a false certification of correction of a violation shall
   19  be subject to a civil penalty of  not  less  than  [fifty]  SEVENTY-FIVE
   20  dollars nor more than [two hundred fifty] THREE HUNDRED dollars for each
   21  violation  falsely  certified, in addition to the other penalties herein
   22  provided.
   23    S 2.  This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day  after  it  shall
   24  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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