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Remove All Obstructions And Repair All Defects In Waste

HPD order 949 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · written Feb 10, 2000 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 8,265 violations under order 949, "Remove All Obstructions And Repair All Defects In Waste", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026. 4,668 are open right now, 4,635 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
4,668
Open past deadline
4,635
Closed
3,597
All time
8,265
Class C (immediately hazardous)
1,796

How order 949 is actually enforced

  • 74 notices (0.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 70 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 1 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 137 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,434 notices (17.4%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 721 notices (8.7%) were dismissed.

Open order-949 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,706
QUEENS1,646
BRONX689
STATEN ISLAND621
MANHATTAN6

The law behind this order

Order 949is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026, "Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2026 Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures · Browse open § 27-2026 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 5, 2026.