Assembly Bill A3081

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Authorizes imposition of administrative sanctions upon certain professionals filing plans with the New York city department of buildings

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A3081 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Cities
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Add Art 28 §§27-228.17 - 27-228.21, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2587
2011-2012: A3495
2015-2016: A4827, A9984

2013-A3081 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the commissioner of the NYC department of buildings to impose sanctions preventing a registered architect, licensed professional engineer or others found guilty of misconduct with respect to department applications from filing any documents with the department for up to two years; establishes a hearing panel and also provides for a hearing and an appeal process.

2013-A3081 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3081

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 23, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Cities

AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
  relation  to  imposing  administrative  sanctions on registered archi-
  tects, licensed professional engineers and other persons  for  miscon-
  duct  with  respect  to  applications and other accompanying documents
  submitted to the department of buildings of the city of New York

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subchapter 1 of chapter 1 of title 27 of the administrative
code  of  the  city of New York is amended by adding a new article 28 to
read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 28
       ADMINISTRATIVE SANCTIONS FOR MISCONDUCT WITH RESPECT TO THE
            SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS AND OTHER ACCOMPANYING
                       DOCUMENTS TO THE DEPARTMENT
  S 27-228.17 ADMINISTRATIVE SANCTIONS FOR MISCONDUCT  WITH  RESPECT  TO
APPLICATIONS  AND  OTHER ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED TO THE DEPART-
MENT. IN ADDITION TO  ANY  OTHER  PENALTIES  PROVIDED  UNDER  ANY  OTHER
PROVISION OF LAW, THE COMMISSIONER MAY, DURING THE PERIOD WHEN SANCTIONS
IMPOSED  UNDER  THIS  ARTICLE ARE IN EFFECT, REFUSE TO ACCEPT OR APPROVE
ANY APPLICATION, OR OTHER ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED  PURSUANT  TO
ANY  PROVISION  OF  THIS CODE, OR IN SATISFACTION OF ANY OF THE REQUIRE-
MENTS OF ANY PROVISION OF THIS CODE FOR THE APPROVAL  OF  PLANS  OR  THE
ISSUANCE OF A PERMIT OR A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY BEARING THE SIGNATURE
OF  A  REGISTERED  ARCHITECT,  LICENSED  PROFESSIONAL  ENGINEER OR OTHER
PERSON WHO HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY  UNDER  THE  PROCEDURES  SET  FORTH  IN
SECTION 27-228.18 OF THIS ARTICLE OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ACTS:
  A.  MAKING  A FALSE OR MISLEADING STATEMENT AS TO A MATERIAL FACT IN A
REPORT OR WRITTEN STATEMENT  WHICH  WAS  SUBMITTED  PURSUANT  TO  FORMER
SECTION 27-132 OR FORMER SECTION 27-136 OF THIS SUBCHAPTER;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06664-01-3
              

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