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A 3685: Requires the re-inspection of dwellings with mold violations.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 13, 2026

What A 3685 does, verified January 13, 2026

The bill aims to improve the city's mold remediation process. It requires the re-inspection of dwellings with mold violations after correction. The bill sets new deadlines for correcting mold violations, with 30 days for non-hazardous violations, 15 days for hazardous violations, and 7 days for immediately hazardous violations. The department may postpone the deadline in certain circumstances, but not if the violation remains uncorrected. The bill also establishes a requirement for the department to inspect the certified dwelling within a specified timeframe after correction. The bill takes effect 30 days after it becomes a law.

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Last action: referred to housing (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026referred to housing
Jan. 29, 2025referred to housing
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 29, 2025 · 602 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3685 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TAPIA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the re-inspection of dwellings with mold violations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision c of section 27-2017.3 of the administrative 2 code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 55 of the 3 city of New York for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows: 4 c. 1. The date for correction of a non-hazardous [or hazardous] 5 violation pursuant to [subdivisions] subdivision a or b of this section 6 shall be [as set forth in subdivision c of section 27-2115] thirty days 7 after service of the notice of violation as provided on such notice. 8 2. The date for correction of [an immediately] a hazardous violation 9 pursuant to subdivision a or b of this section shall be [twenty-one] 10 fifteen days after service of the notice of violation as provided on 11 such notice. 12 3. The date for correction of an immediately hazardous violation 13 pursuant to subdivision a of this section shall be seven days after 14 service of the notice of violation as provided on such notice. 15 4. The department may postpone the date by which an immediately 16 hazardous violation issued pursuant to subdivision a of this section 17 shall be corrected upon a showing, made within the time set for 18 correction in the notice, that prompt action to correct the violation 19 has been taken but that full correction cannot be completed within the 20 time provided because of serious technical difficulties, inability to 21 obtain necessary materials, funds or labor, inability to gain access to 22 the dwelling unit wherein the violation exists, or such other portion of 23 the building as may be necessary to make the required repair, provided, 24 however, that where such immediately hazardous violation has been issued EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06149-01-5 

 A. 3685 2 1 as a result of a reinspection of a hazardous violation that remained 2 uncorrected, no postponement shall be granted. Such postponement shall 3 not exceed [fourteen] seven days from the date of correction set forth 4 in the notice of violation. The department may require such other condi- 5 tions as are deemed necessary to correct the violation within the time 6 set for the postponement. 7 § 2. Section 27-2017.6 of the administrative code of the city of New 8 York is amended by adding a new subdivision f to read as follows: 9 f. Upon receipt of a certification of correction of a violation issued 10 pursuant to section 27-2017.3 of this article or, if the department has 11 not received a certification of correction for such violation, upon the 12 date of correction for such violation as specified in section 27-2017.3 13 of this article, whichever occurs first, the department shall conduct an 14 inspection of the certified dwelling within: 15 1. thirty days for a non-hazardous violation; 16 2. fifteen days for a hazardous violation; and 17 3. seven days for an immediately hazardous violation. 18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 19 have become a law. 

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