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Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026 · cited Feb 5, 1969 – Aug 6, 2026

736,155 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026, which is 6.6% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 155,832 are still open, 149,312 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
155,832
Open past deadline
149,312
Closed
580,323
All time
736,155
Share of attributed
6.6%
Class C (immediately hazardous)
100,020

How § 27-2026 is actually enforced

The median legal deadline on a § 27-2026 notice is 35 days. The median violation that got fixed took 276 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 370,060 closed violations.

  • 8,947 notices (1.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 3,640 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 496 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 3,970 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 36,583 notices (5.0%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 131,351 notices (17.8%) are rent-impairing, the class of violation that can let tenants deposit rent with the court under MDL § 302-a instead of paying the owner.
  • 204,986 notices (27.8%) were dismissed.

What inspectors cite § 27-2026 for

The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.

  1. Properly Repair The Source And Abate The Evidence Of · 328,038 · order 583
  2. Repair The Leaky And/Or Defective Faucets At Bathtub In · 140,567 · order 579
  3. Repair The Broken Or Defective Connection Waste Line At · 53,181 · order 598
  4. Remove All Obstructions And Repair All Defects In Waste · 47,686 · order 649
  5. Repair The Flushing Apparatus And Maintain Same So As · 34,587 · order 593
  6. Replace The Broken Or Defective Wash Basin In The · 28,181 · order 596

Open § 27-2026 violations by borough

BROOKLYN57,677
BRONX41,916
QUEENS26,333
MANHATTAN24,682
STATEN ISLAND5,224

Buildings with the most open § 27-2026 violations

  1. 765 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 452 open
  2. 760 ELDERT LANE, BROOKLYN · 249 open
  3. 675 LINCOLN AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 167 open
  4. 1055 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 125 open
  5. 2265 OLINVILLE AVENUE, BRONX · 125 open
  6. 790 ELDERT LANE, BROOKLYN · 124 open
  7. 2541 7 AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 122 open
  8. 772 EAST 168 STREET, BRONX · 121 open
  9. 700 LENOX AVENUE, MANHATTAN · 117 open
  10. 655 EAST 234 STREET, BRONX · 117 open

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Text of NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026

§ 27-2026 Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures.

The owner of a dwelling shall properly maintain and keep in good repair the plumbing and drainage system, including water closets, toilets, sinks and other fixtures.

Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication

Questions people ask about § 27-2026

What is a § 27-2026 violation?

NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2026, "Maintenance of sewer connections and plumbing fixtures", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. The owner of a dwelling shall properly maintain and keep in good repair the plumbing and drainage system, including water closets, toilets, sinks and other fixtures.

How long does an owner have to fix a § 27-2026 violation?

Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 736,155 § 27-2026 notices, the median legal deadline was 35 days from the notice date.

How long does it actually take to fix a § 27-2026 violation?

Measured across 370,060 § 27-2026 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 276 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 35 days.

Are § 27-2026 violations rent-impairing?

131,351 of 736,155 § 27-2026 notices (17.8%) are marked rent-impairing by HPD. When a rent-impairing violation goes unrepaired, New York's Multiple Dwelling Law § 302-a can let tenants deposit rent with the court instead of paying the owner. The specifics depend on the case.

How many § 27-2026 violations are open in NYC right now?

155,832 § 27-2026 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 149,312 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.

Where this comes from

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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