§ 36-05 Criteria for Identification of Buildings for Participation in the Alternative Enforcement Program.
RCNY § 36-05
(a)Beginning in the sixth year of the Alternative Enforcement Program, the Department will use the following criteria to identify distressed buildings for participation in the program: (1) A multiple dwelling that contains at least three but not more than nineteen dwelling units must have: (i) A ratio of open hazardous and immediately hazardous violations that were issued by the Department within the three-year period prior to such identification that equals in the aggregate five or more such violations for every dwelling unit in the multiple dwelling; and (ii) Paid or unpaid Emergency Repair Charges of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or more, which were incurred within the three-year period prior to such identification.
(2)A multiple dwelling that contains twenty or more dwelling units must have: (i) A ratio of open hazardous and immediately hazardous violations that were issued by the Department within the three-year period prior to such identification that equals in the aggregate three or more such violations for every dwelling unit in the multiple dwelling; and (ii) Paid or unpaid Emergency Repair Charges of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) or more, which were incurred within the three-year period prior to such identification.
(b)Beginning in the eighth year of the Alternative Enforcement Program, the Department will use the following criteria to identify distressed buildings for participation in the program: (1) A multiple dwelling that contains at least three but not more than nineteen dwelling units must have: (i) A ratio of open hazardous and immediately hazardous violations that were issued by the Department within the five-year period prior to such identification that equals in the aggregate five or more such violations for every dwelling unit in the multiple dwelling; and (ii) Paid or unpaid Emergency Repair Charges of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or more, which were incurred within the five-year period prior to such identification.
(c)Beginning in the ninth year of the Alternative Enforcement Program, and in each succeeding year, the Department will use the following criteria to identify distressed buildings for participation in the program: (1) The Department will identify no more than twenty-five multiple dwellings that contain less than six units for participation in the program. Such multiple dwellings must have: (i) A ratio of open hazardous and immediately hazardous violations that were issued by the Department within the five-year period prior to such identification that equals in the aggregate five or more such violations for every dwelling unit in the multiple dwelling; and (ii) Paid or unpaid Emergency Repair Charges of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or more, which were incurred within the five-year period prior to such identification; (2) A multiple dwelling that contains at least six but not more than fourteen dwelling units must have: (i) A ratio of open hazardous and immediately hazardous violations that were issued by the Department within the five-year period prior to such identification that equals in the aggregate five or more such violations for every dwelling unit in the multiple dwelling; and (ii) Paid or unpaid Emergency Repair Charges of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or more, which were incurred within the five-year period prior to such identification.
(3)A multiple dwelling that contains fifteen or more dwelling units must have: (i) A ratio of open hazardous and immediately hazardous violations that were issued by the Department within the five-year period prior to such identification that equals in the aggregate three or more such violations for every dwelling unit in the multiple dwelling; and (ii) Paid or unpaid Emergency Repair Charges of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) or more, which were incurred within the five-year period prior to such identification.
(d)Beginning in the ninth year of the Alternative Enforcement Program, and in each succeeding year, for purposes of identifying buildings for participation in the Alternative Enforcement Program, those buildings having the highest amount of paid and unpaid Emergency Repair Charges incurred within the five-year period prior to such identification shall be selected first.
(e)Beginning in the ninth year of the Alternative Enforcement Program, and in each succeeding year, under the circumstances where the criteria set forth in subdivision (c) do not yield 250 buildings for participation in the program, the Department may apply the following criteria to select additional buildings for participation: (1) A multiple dwelling that contains six or more dwelling units must have: (i) A ratio of open hazardous and immediately hazardous violations that were issued by the Department within the five-year period prior to such identification that equals in the aggregate four or more such violations for every dwelling unit in the multiple dwelling; and (ii) For purposes of identifying additional buildings for participation in the Alternative Enforcement Program pursuant to this paragraph, those buildings having the highest number of open hazardous and immediately hazardous violations within the five-year period prior to such identification shall be selected first. (Amended City Record 9/4/2015, eff. 10/4/2015)
