File #: Int 0697-2008    Version: * Name: Denying permits to developers who have repeatedly been found to violate the city’s building codes and zoning laws.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 2/13/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to denying permits to developers who have repeatedly been found to violate the city’s building codes and zoning laws.
Sponsors: Tony Avella, Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, Alan J. Gerson, Letitia James, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Darlene Mealy, Rosie Mendez, Kendall Stewart, Thomas White, Jr., James Vacca
Council Member Sponsors: 11
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 5/6/08, 2. Hearing Testimony 5/6/08, 3. Hearing Transcript 5/6/08

Int. No. 697

 

By Council Members Avella, Fidler, Gentile, Gerson, James, Mark-Viverito, Mealy, Mendez, Stewart, White Jr. and Vacca

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to denying permits to developers who have repeatedly been found to violate the city’s building codes and zoning laws.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Subchapter 1 of title 26 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new section 26-129.1 to read as follows:

§26-129.1 Authority to deny permits to developers who have been found to repeatedly violate building and zoning laws.  The commissioner shall have the discretion to deny any permit to a developer who has been found to have repeatedly violated one or more provisions of titles twenty-six, twenty-seven or twenty-eight of the administrative code of the city of New York, the New York city zoning resolution, and all applicable rules and regulations.  For the purpose of this section, “developer” shall mean any individual, corporation, limited liability company or other entity and anyone acting on behalf of such individual, corporation, limited liability company or other entity with respect to the construction, alteration, or demolition of a building or structure or the excavation of a site for the construction of a new building or structure. 

§2.  This local law shall take effect ninety days from its enactment, provided however, that the commissioner shall promulgate any rules and perform all other actions necessary for the implementation of this local law prior to such effective date.

 

 

 

 

 

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01/25/08