NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2023 · cited Sep 23, 2002 – Aug 3, 2026
999 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2023, which is 0.0% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 622 are still open, 600 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2023 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 691 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 268 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 281 | |
|---|---|---|
| QUEENS | 210 | |
| BRONX | 87 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 39 | |
| MANHATTAN | 5 |
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§ 27-2023 Collection of waste matter from dwelling units in one and two-family dwellings.
The owner and occupants of a one or two-family dwelling shall provide for the regular collection of waste matter from dwelling units and its deposit in the receptacles required by section 27-2021 of this article, and shall not permit ashes or any type of waste matter to accumulate in any part of the premises so as to create a condition which is unsanitary or a fire hazard in the judgment of the department.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2023, "Collection of waste matter from dwelling units in one and two-family dwellings", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. The owner and occupants of a one or two-family dwelling shall provide for the regular collection of waste matter from dwelling units and its deposit in the receptacles required by section 27-2021 of this article, and shall not permit ashes or any type of waste matter to accumulate in any part of the premises so as to create a condition which is unsanitary or a fire hazard in the judgment of the department.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 999 § 27-2023 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.
Measured across 268 § 27-2023 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 691 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.
622 § 27-2023 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 600 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. 11,131,117 of the city’s 11,136,167 HPD notices are attributed that way; the share above is a share of those. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.
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