NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2076 · cited Jun 18, 1991 – Jun 25, 2026
422 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2076, which is 0.0% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 99 are still open, 95 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2076 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 812 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 220 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 44 | |
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| BRONX | 19 | |
| MANHATTAN | 18 | |
| QUEENS | 15 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 3 |
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§ 27-2076 Prohibited occupancies.
a. No kitchen shall be occupied for sleeping purposes.
b. No rooming unit shall be occupied by a family with a child under the age of sixteen years, except that if a child is born to a family residing in such accommodations, the unlawful occupancy shall not commence until one year after the birth of such child. In any case where such an unlawful occupancy continues for ten days after the service of a notice of violation upon both the tenant and owner, the department may, in addition to all other remedies, institute a proceeding for an injunction pursuant to article four of subchapter five of this chapter to obtain an order requiring that such violation be remedied by eviction or removal of the tenant. The provisions of this subdivision shall not prohibit such occupancy (1) in rooming units operated without profit by an educational, religious or charitable institution of the type described and for the purposes set forth in subdivision a of section 27-2077 of this article, or (2) in a summer resort dwelling.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2076, "Prohibited occupancies", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. No kitchen shall be occupied for sleeping purposes.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 422 § 27-2076 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.
Measured across 220 § 27-2076 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 812 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.
99 § 27-2076 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 95 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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