NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2142 · cited Sep 11, 1978 – Aug 4, 2026
16,999 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2142, which is 0.2% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 6,350 are still open, 182 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2142 notice is 100 days. The median violation that got fixed took 273 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 10,381 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 2,143 | |
|---|---|---|
| QUEENS | 1,839 | |
| BRONX | 1,520 | |
| MANHATTAN | 616 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 232 |
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§ 27-2142 Reoccupancy after vacate order.
a. No person shall occupy, or cause or permit to be occupied, any dwelling or part thereof while such dwelling or part is subject to a vacate order. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an owner or managing agent or other representative of such owner who violates this subdivision by permitting or allowing re-occupancy of a premises that is subject to a vacate order shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than five thousand dollars for each reoccupied dwelling unit in such premises.
b. If the department finds that the conditions rendering a building or part unfit for human habitation have been corrected, it may revoke a vacate order. If the department finds that the unlawful conditions are being corrected and that continued occupancy may be permitted consistent with health and safety, it may extend the time period for compliance fixed in the order.
c. The department may by regulations set forth standards and provide for hearings to determine when such vacate order should be revoked or extended.
d. The department may require as a condition for revocation of a vacate order, that the owner make reasonable effort to notify any tenants who may have vacated the dwelling pursuant to such order that said tenant has a right to re-occupy the dwelling. (Am. L.L. 2017/014, 2/15/2017, eff. 8/14/2017)
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2142, "Reoccupancy after vacate order", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. No person shall occupy, or cause or permit to be occupied, any dwelling or part thereof while such dwelling or part is subject to a vacate order. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an owner or managing agent or other representative of such owner who violates this subdivision by permitting or allowing re-occupancy of a premises that is subject to a vacate order shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than five thousand dollars for each reoccupied dwelling unit in such premises.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 16,999 § 27-2142 notices, the median legal deadline was 100 days from the notice date.
Measured across 10,381 § 27-2142 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 273 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 100 days.
6,350 § 27-2142 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 182 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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