NYC Administrative Code

§ 28-211.1.2 — Additional penalty for false statements.

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What is NYC AC § 28-211.1.2?

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This section outlines additional penalties for individuals who knowingly or negligently submit false statements or falsified documents related to the building code. The commissioner may refuse to accept such applications or documents. Applies to individuals submitting documents under the building code or related agency rules.

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§ 28-211.1.2 Additional penalty for false statements.

AC § 28-211.1.2

In addition to any other penalty provided by law, the commissioner may refuse to accept an application or other document submitted pursuant to or in satisfaction of a requirement of this code or of a rule of any agency promulgated thereunder that bears the signature of a person who has been found, after a hearing at the office of administrative trials and hearings pursuant to the department's rules, to have knowingly or negligently made a false statement or to have knowingly or negligently falsified or allowed to be falsified any certificate, form, signed statement, application, report or certification of the correction of a violation required under the provisions of this code or of a rule of any agency promulgated thereunder. Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2008/008.

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