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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3819
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, FERNANDEZ, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, SEPULVEDA --
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. Subdivision 2 of section 382 of the executive law, as
2 amended by chapter 571 of the laws of 2021, is amended and a new subdi-
3 vision 5 is added to read as follows:
4 2. Any person, having been served, either personally or by registered
5 or certified mail, with an order to remedy any condition found to exist
6 in, on, or about any building in violation of the uniform fire
7 prevention and building code, who shall fail to comply with such order
8 within the time fixed by the regulations promulgated by the secretary
9 pursuant to subdivision one of section three hundred eighty-one of this
10 article, such time period to be stated in the order, and any owner,
11 builder, architect, tenant, contractor, subcontractor, construction
12 superintendent or their agents or any other person taking part or
13 assisting in the construction of any building who shall knowingly
14 violate any of the applicable provisions of the uniform code or any
15 lawful order of a local government, a county or the secretary made ther-
16 eunder regarding standards for construction, maintenance, or fire
17 protection equipment and systems, shall be punishable by a fine of not
18 [more than one thousand dollars per day of violation, or imprisonment
19 not exceeding one year, or both for the first one hundred eighty days,
20 and for the following one hundred eighty days shall be punishable by a
21 fine of no less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one thousand
22 dollars per day of violation or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 both and thereafter shall be punishable by a fine of no less than fifty
2 dollars and not more than one thousand dollars per day of violation]
3 LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS
4 FOR EACH NON-HAZARDOUS VIOLATION, NOT LESS THAN FIFTY DOLLARS NOR MORE
5 THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS PER DAY FOR EACH HAZARDOUS VIOLATION, TWO
6 HUNDRED DOLLARS PER DAY FOR EACH IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS VIOLATION, OCCUR-
7 RING IN A MULTIPLE DWELLING CONTAINING TEN OR FEWER DWELLING UNITS, FROM
8 THE DATE SET FOR CORRECTION IN THE NOTICE OF VIOLATION UNTIL THE
9 VIOLATION IS CORRECTED, AND NOT LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS NOR MORE
10 THAN ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND, IN ADDITION, NOT LESS THAN
11 ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER
12 DAY FOR EACH IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS VIOLATION, OCCURRING IN A MULTIPLE
13 DWELLING CONTAINING MORE THAN TEN DWELLING UNITS, FROM THE DATE SET FOR
14 CORRECTION IN THE NOTICE OF VIOLATION UNTIL THE VIOLATION IS CORRECTED,
15 or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both. A PERSON MAKING A
16 FALSE CERTIFICATION OF CORRECTION OF A VIOLATION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A
17 CIVIL PENALTY IN THE FOLLOWING AMOUNTS, IN ADDITION TO THE OTHER PENAL-
18 TIES HEREIN PROVIDED: NOT LESS THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN
19 TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS
20 VIOLATION FALSELY CERTIFIED, NOT LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS NOR
21 MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH HAZARDOUS VIOLATION FALSELY
22 CERTIFIED, AND NOT LESS THAN FIFTY DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED
23 FIFTY DOLLARS FOR EACH NON-HAZARDOUS VIOLATION FALSELY CERTIFIED.
24 5. ANY DAILY PENALTY LEVIED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS
25 SECTION ON A PERSON WHO IS IN VIOLATION OF THE UNIFORM FIRE PREVENTION
26 AND BUILDING CODE AND WHO HAS FAILED TO COMPLY WITH AN ORDER TO REMEDY
27 SUCH VIOLATION WITHIN THE TIME FIXED BY THE REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY
28 THE SECRETARY PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED
29 EIGHTY-ONE OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE ASSESSED NO LATER THAN THE FOUR-
30 TEENTH DAY OF SUCH VIOLATION.
31 § 2. Subdivision (a) of section 27-2115 of the administrative code of
32 the city of New York, as amended by local law number 71 of the city of
33 New York for the year 2023, is amended to read as follows:
34 (a) In addition to any other penalty authorized by this chapter, a
35 person who violates any law relating to housing standards shall be
36 subject to a civil penalty as follows:
37 (1) For each non-hazardous violation, not less than fifty dollars nor
38 more than one hundred fifty dollars, and, in addition, from the date set
39 for correction in the notice of violation until the violation is
40 corrected, twenty-five dollars per day;
41 (2) For each hazardous violation, not less than seventy-five dollars
42 nor more than five hundred dollars, and, in addition, from the date set
43 for correction in the notice of violation until the violation is
44 corrected, not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred
45 twenty-five dollars per day; and
46 (3) For each immediately hazardous violation:
47 (i) In a multiple dwelling containing [five] TEN or fewer dwelling
48 units, not less than one hundred fifty dollars nor more than seven
49 hundred fifty dollars, and, in addition, from the date set for
50 correction in the notice of violation until the violation is corrected,
51 not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred fifty dollars per
52 day; and
53 (ii) In a multiple dwelling containing more than [five] TEN dwelling
54 units, not less than one hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thou-
55 sand two hundred dollars, and, in addition, from the date set for
56 correction in the notice of violation until the violation is corrected,
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1 not less than one hundred fifty dollars nor more than one thousand two
2 hundred dollars per day.
3 (4) Provided, however, that in addition to the other penalties herein
4 provided, a person who makes a false certification of correction of a
5 violation shall be subject to a civil penalty as follows:
6 (i) For each non-hazardous violation falsely certified, not less than
7 fifty dollars nor more than two hundred fifty dollars;
8 (ii) For each hazardous violation falsely certified, not less than two
9 hundred fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars; and
10 (iii) For each immediately hazardous violation falsely certified, not
11 less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.