NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2032 · cited May 26, 1987 – Jul 2, 2026
1,251 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2032, which is 0.0% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 724 are still open, 723 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2032 notice is 35 days. The median violation that got fixed took 1,500 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 318 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 393 | |
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| MANHATTAN | 173 | |
| QUEENS | 123 | |
| BRONX | 32 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 3 |
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§ 27-2032 Gas-fueled or electric heaters.
a. Gas-fueled or electric space or water heaters, where permitted by this article as an alternative to a central supply of heat or hot water, shall be governed by the provisions of this section.
b. The capacity, number and location of such heaters shall be such as to furnish the same standard of heat or hot water supply, as the case may be, as is required to be furnished from a central heat or hot water system.
c. Electric heaters shall be approved by Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. and shall comply with applicable provisions of the building code and the multiple dwelling law.
d. Gas-fueled heaters shall comply with article nine of this subchapter and with applicable provisions of the building code and the multiple dwelling law, but any such heater lawfully in existence on July fourteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven which does not comply with subdivision b of section 27-2034 of article nine of this subchapter shall comply with such section by July fourteenth, nineteen hundred seventy-eight. No person shall cause or permit to be occupied for sleeping purposes any room containing such a non-complying heater. Any heater installed in replacement of any such non-complying heater shall comply with all provisions of article nine of this subchapter.
e. The owner shall not, unless otherwise agreed between owner and tenant, be required to pay for the gas or electricity used by such heaters.
f. Notwithstanding any provision of prior law, it shall be the duty of the owner to keep each such heater in good repair and good operating condition, regardless of the identity of the person originally owning or installing the heater.
g. The owner shall instruct each successive tenant of an apartment in which such heaters are installed as to safe and proper method of using and operating such heaters.
h. The department may make and enforce regulations supplementary to the provisions of this section and article nine of this subchapter to secure an adequate supply of heat and hot water and to protect the health and safety of tenants.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2032, "Gas-fueled or electric heaters", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. Gas-fueled or electric space or water heaters, where permitted by this article as an alternative to a central supply of heat or hot water, shall be governed by the provisions of this section.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 1,251 § 27-2032 notices, the median legal deadline was 35 days from the notice date.
Measured across 318 § 27-2032 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 1,500 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 35 days.
900 of 1,251 § 27-2032 notices (71.9%) 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.
724 § 27-2032 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 723 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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