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Int 0114-2004

Increasing penalties for violating the housing maintenance code, failing to provide heat and hot water.

IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Housing and Buildingsintroduced 2004-02-04Local Law 2005/001

Enacted as Local Law 2005/001.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2004-02-04Passed: 2005-01-03Enacted: 2005-01-03
Committee on Housing and BuildingsDepartment of Housing Preservation and Development, Department of Buildings and rent regulation.

How it compares

32% of similar bills passed

16 passed · 34 died

This bill: 313 days in committee

Similar bills: median 620 days · 209 days when passed

Sponsors (38)

Eva S. Moskowitz(prime)
Gifford Miller
Philip Reed
Margarita Lopez
Jose M. Serrano
Yvette D. Clarke
Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr.
Hiram Monserrate
Betsy Gotbaum

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2004-02-04 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2004-02-04 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2004-11-16 · Committee on Housing and Buildings
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2004-11-16 · Committee on Housing and Buildings
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2004-12-14 · Committee on Housing and Buildings
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2004-12-14 · Committee on Housing and Buildings
ActionAmended by Committee
2004-12-14 · Committee on Housing and Buildings
AdvancedApproved by Committee
2004-12-14 · Committee on Housing and Buildings
AdvancedApproved by Council
2004-12-15 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2004-12-15 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Mayor
2005-01-03 · Mayor
AdvancedSigned Into Law by Mayor
2005-01-03 · Mayor
ActionRecved from Mayor by Council
2005-01-04 · City Council

Votes (11)

Aye (11)
Madeline T. ProvenzanoJoel RiveraDiana ReynaTony AvellaGale A. BrewerLeroy G. Comrie, Jr.Lewis A. FidlerRobert JacksonMelinda R. KatzLetitia JamesJames S. Oddo

Heard at (4)

City Council · 2004-12-15 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Housing and Buildings · 2004-12-14 · 1:00 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Housing and Buildings · 2004-11-16 · 10:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2004-02-04 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (7)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Paragraph one of subdivision (k) of section 27-2115 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows: (k) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who violates section 27-2028, subdivision a of section 27-2029, section [27-2030,] 27-2031 or section 27-2032 of article eight of subchapter two of this chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than two hundred fifty nor more than five hundred dollars per day for each violation from and including the date the notice is affixed pursuant to paragraph two until the date the violation is corrected and [a] not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars per day for each subsequent violation of such sections at the same dwelling or multiple dwelling during the same calendar year or, in the case of subdivision a of section 27-2029, during the same period of October first through May thirty-first. A person who violates subdivision b of section 27-2029 of article eight of subchapter two of this chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty of twenty-five dollars per day from and including the date the notice is affixed pursuant to paragraph two until the date the violation is corrected but no less than one thousand dollars. There shall be a presumption that the condition constituting a violation continues after the affixing of the notice. §2. This local law shall take effect forty days after it shall have been enacted into law, except that the commissioner of housing preservation and development shall promulgate any rules and take all other actions necessary to implement this local law on or before the effective date of this local law. A-version 12/03/04, 9:00 am