File #: Int 1343-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring the DOB to notify building owners about emergency demolitions.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 7/14/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of buildings to notify building owners about emergency demolitions
Sponsors: Mercedes Narcisse
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Buildings (DOB) to notify a property owner in writing when DOB determines that a structure must be demolished without delay because it poses an imminent danger to public safety. The notice would include the demolition’s approximate start date, the owner’s responsibility to pay for the demolition, and contact information for a representative at the DOB who is knowledgeable about emergency demolitions.
Attachments: 1. Int. No. 1343, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1343, 3. July 14, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1343

 

By Council Member Narcisse

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of buildings to notify building owners about emergency demolitions

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Article 215 of chapter 2 of title 28 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 28-215.1.4 to read as follows:

§ 28-215.1.4 Notification to owner of emergency demolition. As soon as practicable after determining that demolition of a structure is required pursuant to section 28-215.1, the commissioner shall notify the owner of the structure in writing of: (i) the need for the demolition; (ii) the approximate date that the demolition will begin; (iii) the owner’s responsibility to pay for the demolition; (iv) an estimate of the demolition’s cost; and (v) the telephone number and email address of a department employee with knowledge of procedures related to demolitions performed pursuant to section 28-215.1; and (vi) any other information the commissioner deems appropriate.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

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