File Plans And Obtain A Certificate Of Occupancy To

HPD order 495 · cites NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 300 · written Mar 12, 1964 – Jul 31, 2026

HPD has written 6,316 violations under order 495, "File Plans And Obtain A Certificate Of Occupancy To", citing NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 300. 3,711 are open right now, 3,701 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now

3,711

Open past deadline

3,701

Closed

2,605

All time

6,316

Class C (immediately hazardous)

How order 495 is actually enforced

560 notices (8.9%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
32 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.
62 repairs were certified after the deadline.
3,035 notices (48.1%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
840 notices (13.3%) were dismissed.

Open order-495 violations by borough

BROOKLYN		1,330
MANHATTAN		1,143
QUEENS		633
BRONX		564
STATEN ISLAND		41

The law behind this order

Order 495is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYS Multiple Dwelling Law § 300. The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 300 · Browse open § 300 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.