Bill Text: NY A03804 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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) 2018-01-03 - referred to cities [A03804 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03804-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3804
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- 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    § 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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