NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2096 · cited Nov 23, 1981 – Jun 24, 2026
299 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2096, which is 0.0% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 127 are still open, 7 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2096 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 673 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 34 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BRONX | 77 | |
|---|---|---|
| BROOKLYN | 34 | |
| MANHATTAN | 13 | |
| QUEENS | 3 |
§ 27-2096 False statements punishable.
a. Any application filed with the department for the granting of any relief or the taking of any action by the commissioner or the department or for the granting of any permit under the provisions of this code and any answer to such application filed with the department, shall be signed by the person authorized or required to submit such application or answer under the provisions of this chapter, or if such application or answer is authorized or required to be submitted by a corporation, by an officer thereof.
b. Any person who signs any such application or answer, or any registration statement or designation of a managing agent authorized or required under the provisions of this code shall certify that all statements therein contained are true and correct.
c. Any person signing any such application, answer, registration statement, or designation of a managing agent, who makes any false statement therein as to any material matter to which the certification provided for in subdivision b of this section applies, shall be guilty of an offense punishable as provided in section 27-2118 of subchapter five of this code.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2096, "False statements punishable", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. Any application filed with the department for the granting of any relief or the taking of any action by the commissioner or the department or for the granting of any permit under the provisions of this code and any answer to such application filed with the department, shall be signed by the person authorized or required to submit such application or answer under the provisions of this chapter, or if such application or answer is authorized or required to be submitted by a corporation, by an officer thereof.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 299 § 27-2096 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.
Measured across 34 § 27-2096 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 673 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.
127 § 27-2096 violations are open as of Aug 5, 2026, and 7 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.
Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset. Each notice is attributed to a section by HPD’s own order number where one is on record, otherwise by the section its notice text cites. 11,124,402 of the city’s 11,129,441 HPD notices are attributed that way; the share above is a share of those. Figures recomputed Aug 5, 2026.
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