Bill Text: NY S00601 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | 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) 2012-03-12 - COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES [S00601 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S00601-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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601
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 5, 2011
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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 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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