Bill Text: NY S08795 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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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 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-09 - referred to governmental operations [S08795 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S08795-Introduced.html
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 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-09 - referred to governmental operations [S08795 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S08795-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8795 IN SENATE April 18, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- 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 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 penalty levied pursuant to subdivision two of this section on a 4 person who is in violation of the uniform fire prevention and building 5 code and who has failed to comply with an order to remedy such violation 6 within the time fixed by the regulations promulgated by the secretary 7 pursuant to subdivision one of section three hundred eighty-one of this 8 article shall be assessed and imposed such penalty within fourteen days 9 of such violation. Such person shall be notified at such time that such 10 penalty has been imposed. 11 § 2. Subdivision (a) of section 27-2115 of the administrative code of 12 the city of New York, as amended by local law number 65 of the city of 13 New York for the year 1987, is amended to read as follows: 14 (a) A person who violates any law relating to housing standards shall 15 be subject to a civil penalty of not less than [ten] one hundred dollars 16 nor more than [fifty] five hundred dollars for each non-hazardous 17 violation, not less than [twenty-five] five hundred dollars nor more 18 than one thousand five hundred dollars and ten dollars per day for each 19 hazardous violation, [fifty] one thousand dollars per day for each imme- 20 diately hazardous violation, occurring in a multiple dwelling containing 21 five or fewer dwelling units, from the date set for correction in the 22 notice of violation until the violation is corrected, and not less than 23 [fifty] one thousand dollars nor more than [one hundred fifty] ten thou- 24 sand dollars and, in addition, one [hundred twenty-five] thousand 25 dollars per day for each immediately hazardous violation, occurring in a EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14326-02-2S. 8795 2 1 multiple dwelling containing more than five dwelling units, from the 2 date set for correction in the notice of violation until the violation 3 is corrected. A person [wilfully] willfully making a false certif- 4 ication of correction of a violation shall be subject to a civil penalty 5 of not less than [fifty] ten thousand dollars nor more than [two hundred6fifty] twenty-five thousand dollars for each violation falsely certi- 7 fied, in addition to the other penalties herein provided. Any penalty 8 levied pursuant to this subdivision shall be assessed and imposed within 9 fourteen days of such violation and such person in violation shall be 10 notified at such time that such penalty has been imposed. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.