This bill changes the period in which inspection fees may be charged by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development under Local Law 65/2014.
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Int. No. 718
By Council Members Torres, Chin and Rosenthal
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the duration of inspection fees for certain recurring violations of the housing maintenance code.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph i of paragraph 8 of subdivision f of section 27-2115 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law 65 for the year 2014, is amended to read as follows:
(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where (A) the department has performed two or more complaint-based inspections in the same dwelling unit within a twelve-month period, (B) each such inspection has resulted in the issuance of a hazardous or immediately hazardous violation in such dwelling unit, and (C) not all such violations have been certified as corrected pursuant to this section, the department may impose an inspection fee of two hundred dollars for the third and for each subsequent complaint-based inspection that it performs in such dwelling unit [within the same twelve-month period] that results in the issuance of a hazardous or immediately hazardous violation in such dwelling unit until a twelve-month period elapses in which there are no complaint-based inspections of such dwelling unit that result in the issuance of a hazardous or immediately hazardous violation in such dwelling unit, provided that the department may by rule increase the fee for inspections performed during the period of October first through May thirty-first. Such inspection fee shall be in addition to any civil penalties that may be due and payable.
§2. Notwithstanding section 3 of local law number 65 for the year 2014, such local law shall take effect on the same date that this local law takes effect, except that the commissioner of housing preservation and development shall take such measures as are necessary for its implementation, including the promulgation of rules, prior to such effective date.
§3. This local law shall take effect 120 days after its enactment into law, except that the commissioner of housing preservation and development shall take such measures as are necessary for its implementation, including the promulgation of rules, prior to such effective date.
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