Int 0636-2024
Imposing civil penalties on contractors who perform work after the expiration of a permit.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Housing and Buildingsintroduced 2024-03-07
Filed — closed without being enacted.
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Agenda: 2024-03-07Passed: 2025-12-31
Summary
Building owners are subject to fines when construction work is performed on their buildings after the expiration of a permit. This bill would shift liability for such fines, and for certain related inspection fees, from building owners to contractors who performed the unpermitted work.
Committee on Housing and Buildings — Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Department of Buildings and rent regulation.
How it compares
28% of similar bills passed
14 passed · 36 died
This bill: 664 days in committee
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Sponsors (4)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2024-03-07 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2024-03-07 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2025-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2024-03-07 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (5)
- Summary of Int. No. 636
- Int. No. 636
- March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 7, 2024
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 28-213.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 33 for the year 2007, is amended to read as follows:
� 28-213.2 [Waiver. Such penalty and the permit fee shall be payable by] Liability. a. No permit issued. Where work has been performed and a permit has never been issued for such work, the owner of the building on which the unpermitted work was performed shall be liable for such penalty and permit fee. A waiver or reduction of such penalty shall be available to a subsequent bona fide purchaser of the premises pursuant to department rules.
b. Expired permit. Where work has been performed after the date on which a duly issued permit has expired, the contractor who performed the unpermitted work shall be liable for such penalty, the fee to reinstate the permit and any inspection fee imposed pursuant to section 28-213.7.
� 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.
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