File #: Int 1193-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring home improvement contractors to provide information on required permits to owners and requiring public outreach and education on the watch list of contractors performing work without a permit.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 2/13/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring home improvement contractors to provide information on required permits to owners and requiring public outreach and education on the watch list of contractors performing work without a permit
Sponsors: Yusef Salaam, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Chris Banks, Pierina Ana Sanchez, James F. Gennaro, Farah N. Louis, Nantasha M. Williams
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Summary: This bill would require home improvement contractors disclose in writing to owners whether there are any permits foreseeably required to perform the work specified in the contract and, if so, which permits are required, what actions need to be taken to obtain the permits, and how owners can verify the status of any permits. The bill would also require the Department of Buildings (DOB) to conduct an outreach and education campaign on the watch list of contractors who have performed work without the required permits.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1193, 2. Int. No. 1193, 3. February 13, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1193

 

By Council Members Salaam, Brooks-Powers, Banks, Sanchez, Gennaro, Louis, Farías and Williams

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring home improvement contractors to provide information on required permits to owners and requiring public outreach and education on the watch list of contractors performing work without a permit

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 22 of chapter 2 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 20-395.1 to read as follows:

§ 20-395.1. Duty to furnish information about permits. Prior to or at the same time as the execution of a home improvement contract, a home improvement contractor shall provide a written notice to the owner regarding required permits. Such notice must be signed and dated by the owner and shall disclose whether any permits are foreseeably required to complete the work specified in the home improvement contract, and, if so:

1. Which specific permits are required;

2. What actions need to be taken to obtain the required permits, including estimated fees for the permits; and

3. Instructions on how the owner can verify the status of such permits through city databases such as the buildings information system.

§ 2. Article 103 of chapter 1 of title 28 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 28-103.38 to read as follows:

§ 28-103.38 Outreach and education for the watch list of contractors performing work without the required permit. The department shall conduct education and outreach to increase awareness of section 28-213.5, regarding the watch list of contractors who have been found to have performed work without a required permit. Educational materials distributed pursuant to this section shall be in plain language and made available in all of the designated citywide languages, as defined in section 23-1101 of this code. Such educational materials shall also be available on the department's website.

 

§ 3. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

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