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Post A Proper Notice Of Smoke Detector Requirements, In

HPD order 700 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2045 · written Nov 8, 1982 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 47,709 violations under order 700, "Post A Proper Notice Of Smoke Detector Requirements, In", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2045. 17,160 are open right now, 16,265 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
17,160
Open past deadline
16,265
Closed
30,549
All time
47,709
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 700 is actually enforced

  • 2,223 notices (4.7%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 589 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 40 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 246 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 5,944 notices (12.5%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 11,578 notices (24.3%) were dismissed.

Open order-700 violations by borough

BROOKLYN7,973
QUEENS3,554
BRONX2,772
MANHATTAN2,665
STATEN ISLAND196

The law behind this order

Order 700is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2045, "Duties of owner and occupant with respect to installation and maintenance of smoke detecting devices, carbon monoxide detecting devices and natural gas detecting devices". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2045 Duties of owner and occupant with respect to installation and maintenance of smoke detecting devices, carbon monoxide detecting devices and natural gas detecting devices · Browse open § 27-2045 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.