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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 13, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LUCAS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Govern-
mental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, 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. a. Any person, having been served, either personally or by regis-
5 tered or certified mail, with an order to remedy any condition found to
6 exist 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 fine of no less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one thousand
2 dollars per day of violation or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or
3 both and thereafter shall be punishable by a fine of no less than fifty
4 dollars and not more than one thousand dollars per day of violation or
5 imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both] less than twenty-five
6 dollars nor more than one hundred fifty dollars for each non-hazardous
7 violation in a multiple dwelling containing ten or fewer dwelling units.
8 b. For each hazardous violation occurring in a multiple dwelling
9 containing ten or fewer dwelling units, a penalty of not less than fifty
10 dollars nor more than five hundred dollars per day shall be imposed from
11 the date set for correction in the notice of violation until the
12 violation is corrected.
13 c. For each immediately hazardous violation occurring in a multiple
14 dwelling containing ten or fewer dwelling units, a penalty of not less
15 than two hundred fifty dollars per day shall be imposed from the date
16 set for correction in the notice of violation until the violation is
17 corrected.
18 d. For each non-hazardous violation occurring in a multiple dwelling
19 containing more than ten dwelling units, a penalty of not less than one
20 hundred dollars nor more than one thousand five hundred dollars shall be
21 imposed from the date set for correction in the notice of violation
22 until the violation is corrected.
23 e. For each hazardous violation occurring in a multiple dwelling
24 containing more than ten dwelling units, a penalty not less than one
25 hundred fifty dollars nor more than two thousand dollars per day shall
26 be imposed from the date set for correction in the notice of violation
27 until the violation is corrected.
28 f. For each immediately hazardous violation occurring in a multiple
29 dwelling containing more than ten dwelling units, a penalty of not less
30 than five hundred dollars per day for each violation, from the date set
31 for correction in the notice of violation until the violation is
32 corrected, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
33 g. A person making a false certification of correction of a violation
34 shall be subject to a civil penalty in the following amounts, in addi-
35 tion to the other penalties herein provided: not less than five hundred
36 dollars nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars for each imme-
37 diately hazardous violation falsely certified, not less than two hundred
38 fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each hazardous
39 violation falsely certified, and not less than fifty dollars nor more
40 than two hundred fifty dollars for each non-hazardous violation falsely
41 certified.
42 5. Any daily penalty levied pursuant to subdivision two of this
43 section on a person who is in violation of the uniform fire prevention
44 and building code and who has failed to comply with an order to remedy
45 such violation within the time fixed by the regulations promulgated by
46 the secretary pursuant to subdivision one of section three hundred
47 eighty-one of this article shall be assessed no later than the four-
48 teenth day of such violation.
49 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
