File #: Int 1217-2025    Version: * Name: Building inspections and reporting following complaints related to rats and other pests
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 3/12/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to building inspections and reporting following complaints related to rats and other pests
Sponsors: Susan Zhuang
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require DOHMH to perform a building inspection in response to any 311 complaints relating to rats, mice, pests, or conditions which might attract them within 10 days of such complaint being made. The bill would also require that a record of such inspections include a description of the building’s state and a listing of the inspector’s observations; such records would be made publicly available online.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1217, 2. Int. No. 1217, 3. March 12, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1217

 

By Council Member Zhuang

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to building inspections and reporting following complaints related to rats and other pests

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-133.4 to read as follows:

§ 17-133.4  Inspections timeline. The department shall inspect a building for signs of rodent activity or harborage within 10 business days following submission to the 311 customer service center of a service request or complaint pertaining to such building and relating to rats, mice, pests, or conditions which might attract them, building maintenance as it relates to rodent abatement, failure to follow trash or recycling disposal rules, failure to correctly store trash or recycling, or outdoor dining as it relates to rodent abatement. As part of such inspection, the department shall collect or record the following information:

1. the street address of the building so inspected;

2. the department’s determination of whether such building passed or failed such inspection;

3. a description of whether one or more notices of violation relating to the presence of rats was issued to the person in charge of such building in response to such inspection;

4. a description of the nature, state and situation of such building; and

5. a listing of the inspector’s observations of signs of rats, mice, or pests, including but not limited to the presence of live rats, mice, or pests, tracks, droppings, burrows, runways, rub marks, fresh gnaw marks, trash, clutter, dense vegetation, mice, or any other signs the inspector deems important.

§ 2. Section 17-133.3 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 108 for the year 2022, is amended by adding a new subdivision c, to read as follows:

c. Reporting timeline. The department shall make publicly available online the information collected or recorded pursuant to section 17-133.4, or any other lawful inspection conducted by the department related to rats, mice, pests, or conditions which might attract them, within 5 business days of completing such inspection. The requirements of this subdivision may be satisfied by making such information available as part of an interactive map on rodent activity on a city website wherein such information may be viewed upon selecting individual addresses or properties.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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LS # 16272

05/02/2024