File #: Int 0973-2023    Version: * Name: Altering the timeline of initial façade examinations for new construction and coordinating all façade examinations on each city block.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 3/16/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to altering the timeline of initial fa?ade examinations for new construction and coordinating all fa?ade examinations on each city block
Sponsors: Keith Powers , Erik D. Bottcher, Shaun Abreu, Farah N. Louis, Christopher Marte, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Julie Menin, Diana I. Ayala, Robert F. Holden, Oswald Feliz, Marjorie Velázquez, Gale A. Brewer, Mercedes Narcisse, Shekar Krishnan, Nantasha M. Williams, Kevin C. Riley, Shahana K. Hanif, Carlina Rivera , Vickie Paladino, (in conjunction with the Manhattan Borough Preside
Council Member Sponsors: 20
Summary: This bill would require the critical examinations of building façades for newly constructed buildings, currently due five years after the completion of any exterior wall or appurtenance, to be submitted eight years after completion, and would require the Department of Buildings to coordinate the submission of critical examination reports as practicable so that all façades repairs on a given block occur simultaneously.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 973, 2. Int. No. 973, 3. March 16, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-16-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 16, 2023

Int. No. 973

By Council Members Powers, Bottcher, Abreu, Louis, Marte, Restler, Hudson, Menin, Ayala, Holden, Feliz, Velázquez, Brewer, Narcisse, Krishnan, Williams, Riley, Hanif, Rivera and Paladino (in conjunction with the Manhattan Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to altering the timeline of initial façade examinations for new construction and coordinating all façade examinations on each city block

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     Section 1. Section 28-302.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 126 for the year 2021, is amended to read as follows:

§ 28-302.2 Inspection requirements. A critical examination of a building's exterior walls and appurtenances thereof shall be conducted at periodic intervals as set forth by rule of the commissioner, but such examination shall be conducted at least once during each five-year report filing cycle, as defined by rule of the department. The initial examination for a new building shall be conducted in the [fifth] eighth year following the erection or installation of any exterior wall [and/] or appurtenances as evidenced by the issuance date of a temporary or final certificate of occupancy or as otherwise prescribed by rule.

 

1. [Such] The examination shall be conducted on behalf of the building owner by or under the direct supervision of a registered design professional with appropriate qualifications as prescribed by the department.

 

2. [Such] The examination shall include a complete review of the most recently prepared report and an inspection.

 

3. [Such] The examination shall be conducted in accordance with rules promulgated by the commissioner.

 

4. To the extent practicable, the commissioner shall coordinate the submission of critical examination reports to ensure that all buildings that share a block submit the critical examination reports simultaneously.

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

 

 

 

 

 

APM

LS 6620/6192

3/13/2023