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Correct The Lead-Based Paint Hazard - Paint That Tested

HPD order 617 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2056.6 · written Aug 9, 2004 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 151,708 violations under order 617, "Correct The Lead-Based Paint Hazard - Paint That Tested", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2056.6. 41,130 are open right now, 40,606 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
41,130
Open past deadline
40,606
Closed
110,578
All time
151,708
Class C (immediately hazardous)
151,708

How order 617 is actually enforced

  • 1,377 notices (0.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 978 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.
  • 924 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 6 notices (0.0%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 749 notices (0.5%) were dismissed.

Open order-617 violations by borough

BROOKLYN16,719
BRONX13,004
MANHATTAN6,460
QUEENS4,513
STATEN ISLAND434

The law behind this order

Order 617is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2056.6, "Violation in a dwelling unit". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2056.6 Violation in a dwelling unit · Browse open § 27-2056.6 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.