Bill Text: NY A09163 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires that any penalties for violations of housing standards or building and fire codes be assessed and imposed within fourteen days; increases certain fine amounts for violations of housing standards in New York city.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-06 - print number 9163a [A09163 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A09163-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9163--A IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2022 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. FERNANDEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the executive law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to imposing certain penalties related to violations of building and fire code standards within fourteen days and increasing certain fines for violations of housing standards The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 382 of the executive law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 5 to read as follows: 3 5. Any daily penalty levied pursuant to subdivision two of this 4 section on a person who is in violation of the uniform fire prevention 5 and building code and who has failed to comply with an order to remedy 6 such violation within the time fixed by the regulations promulgated by 7 the secretary pursuant to subdivision one of section three hundred 8 eighty-one of this article shall be assessed no later than the four- 9 teenth day of such violation. 10 § 2. Subdivision (a) of section 27-2115 of the administrative code of 11 the city of New York, as amended by local law number 65 of the city of 12 New York for the year 1987, is amended to read as follows: 13 (a) A person who violates any law relating to housing standards shall 14 be subject to a civil penalty of not less than [ten] twenty-five dollars 15 nor more than [fifty] one hundred fifty dollars for each non-hazardous 16 violation, not less than [twenty-five] fifty dollars nor more than [one] 17 five hundred dollars and not less than ten dollars nor more than one 18 hundred dollars per day for each hazardous violation, [fifty] two 19 hundred dollars per day for each immediately hazardous violation, occur- 20 ring in a multiple dwelling containing [five] ten or fewer dwelling 21 units, from the date set for correction in the notice of violation until 22 the violation is corrected, and not less than [fifty] one hundred 23 dollars nor more than [one hundred fifty] one thousand five hundred 24 dollars and, in addition, [one hundred twenty-five] not less than one EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14326-06-2A. 9163--A 2 1 hundred twenty-five dollars nor more than one thousand dollars per day 2 for each immediately hazardous violation, occurring in a multiple dwell- 3 ing containing more than [five] ten dwelling units, from the date set 4 for correction in the notice of violation until the violation is 5 corrected. A person [wilfully] willfully making a false certification 6 of correction of a violation shall be subject to a civil penalty of not 7 less than [fifty] one hundred dollars nor more than [two hundred fifty] 8 two thousand five hundred dollars for each violation falsely certified, 9 in addition to the other penalties herein provided. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
