File #: Int 0299-2006    Version: * Name: Imposing sanctions upon professional engineers and registered architects that self-certify false or noncompliant building permit applications or plans.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 4/26/2006
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to imposing sanctions upon professional engineers and registered architects that self-certify false or noncompliant building permit applications or plans.
Sponsors: Michael C. Nelson, Lewis A. Fidler, Helen D. Foster, Daniel R. Garodnick, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, John C. Liu, James Vacca, David I. Weprin, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Rosie Mendez, Peter F. Vallone, Jr., James Sanders, Jr., Bill De Blasio, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Alan J. Gerson, James S. Oddo
Council Member Sponsors: 18
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 9/21/06, 2. Hearing Transcript 9/21/06
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2009*Michael C. Nelson City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/21/2006*Michael C. Nelson Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/21/2006*Michael C. Nelson Committee on Housing and Buildings Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/26/2006*Michael C. Nelson City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/26/2006*Michael C. Nelson City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 299
By Council Members Nelson, Fidler, Foster, Garodnick, Gentile, James, Koppell, Liu, Vacca, Weprin, Mark-Viverito, Mendez, Vallone Jr., Sanders Jr., de Blasio, Comrie, Gerson and Oddo
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to imposing sanctions upon professional engineers and registered architects that self-certify false or noncompliant building permit applications or plans.
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
      Section 1. Article 9 of chapter one of title 27 is amended by adding a new section 27-143.1 to read as follows:
§27-143.1 Self-certification of application and plans. a. Definition. For the purposes of this section, "Self-certification" means the submission to the department of a signed, personal verification made by a professional engineer or registered architect that accompanies an application for approval of plans which attests that such application, plan or portions thereof do not contain any false information and that such application, plan or portions thereof are in full compliance with all applicable provisions of law, thereby allowing the department to forgo a full examination of any portion of such application or plans prior to approval.
b. The department shall permanently revoke self-certification privileges for each professional engineer or registered architect found by the department to have self-certified two applications for approval of plans that were found by the department to contain false information or found not to be in compliance with all applicable provisions of law.
       §2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon its enactment into law.
LS #559
4/21/06
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