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Provide A Safe And Adequate Supply Of Electric Service

HPD order 988 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037 · written Jul 11, 2012 – Jul 31, 2026

HPD has written 10,340 violations under order 988, "Provide A Safe And Adequate Supply Of Electric Service", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037. 4,960 are open right now, 4,938 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
4,960
Open past deadline
4,938
Closed
5,380
All time
10,340
Class C (immediately hazardous)
5,124

How order 988 is actually enforced

  • 63 notices (0.6%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 76 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD.
  • 72 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 166 notices (1.6%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 1,540 notices (14.9%) were dismissed.

Open order-988 violations by borough

BROOKLYN2,207
QUEENS1,536
BRONX781
STATEN ISLAND434
MANHATTAN2

The law behind this order

Order 988is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2037, "Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2037 Duty to provide electric lighting equipment in all dwellings · Browse open § 27-2037 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.