NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2031 · cited Jan 13, 1974 – Aug 6, 2026
151,525 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2031, which is 1.4% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 33,750 are still open, 33,660 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2031 notice is 0 days. The median violation that got fixed took 45 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 85,707 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 14,034 | |
|---|---|---|
| BRONX | 6,778 | |
| QUEENS | 6,244 | |
| MANHATTAN | 5,898 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 796 |
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§ 27-2031 Supply of hot water; when required.
Except as otherwise provided in this article, every bath, shower, washbasin and sink in any dwelling unit in a multiple dwelling or tenant-occupied one-family or two-family dwelling shall be supplied at all times between the hours of six a.m. and midnight with hot water at a constant minimum temperature of one hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit from a central source of supply constructed in accordance with the provisions of the building code and the regulations of the department, provided however that baths and showers equipped with balanced-pressure mixing valves, thermostatic mixing valves or combination pressure balancing/thermostatic valves may produce a discharge temperature less than one hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit but in no event less than one hundred ten degrees Fahrenheit. Gas or electric water heaters may, if approved by the department, be utilized in lieu of a central source of supply of hot water if such heaters: (1)are lawfully in use on July fourteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven; or (2)are approved by the appropriate city agencies having jurisdiction and are installed in a structure or building erected, converted, substantially rehabilitated, or completely vacated after July fourteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2031, "Supply of hot water; when required", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. Except as otherwise provided in this article, every bath, shower, washbasin and sink in any dwelling unit in a multiple dwelling or tenant-occupied one-family or two-family dwelling shall be supplied at all times between the hours of six a.m. and midnight with hot water at a constant minimum temperature of one hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit from a central source of supply constructed in accordance with the provisions of the building code and the regulations of the department, provided however that baths and showers equipped with balanced-pressure mixing valves, thermostatic mixing valves or combination pressure balancing/thermostatic valves may produce a discharge temperature less than one hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit but in no event less than one hundred ten degrees Fahrenheit. Gas or electric water heaters may, if approved by the department, be utilized in lieu of a central source of supply of hot water if such heaters: (1)are lawfully in use on July fourteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven; or (2)are approved by the appropriate city agencies having jurisdiction and are installed in a structure or building erected, converted, substantially rehabilitated, or completely vacated after July fourteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 151,525 § 27-2031 notices, the median legal deadline was 0 days from the notice date.
Measured across 85,707 § 27-2031 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 45 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 0 days.
123,044 of 151,525 § 27-2031 notices (81.2%) 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.
33,750 § 27-2031 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 33,660 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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