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Provide Adequate Lighting For Light Fixture At Ceiling At

HPD order 682 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2038 · written Dec 18, 1978 – Jul 17, 2026

HPD has written 1,144 violations under order 682, "Provide Adequate Lighting For Light Fixture At Ceiling At", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2038. 242 are open right now, 240 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
242
Open past deadline
240
Closed
902
All time
1,144
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 682 is actually enforced

  • 20 notices (1.7%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 5 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 2 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 5 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 83 notices (7.3%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 1,144 notices (100.0%) are rent-impairing, the class of violation that can let tenants deposit rent with the court under MDL § 302-a instead of paying the owner.
  • 237 notices (20.7%) were dismissed.

Open order-682 violations by borough

BROOKLYN130
BRONX43
MANHATTAN36
QUEENS33

The law behind this order

Order 682is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2038, "Electric lighting fixtures required in certain public parts of dwellings". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2038 Electric lighting fixtures required in certain public parts of dwellings · Browse open § 27-2038 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.