NYC Administrative Code

§ 22-117 — Unauthorized construction and maintenance of structures on water front property; penalty.

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This section outlines penalties for unauthorized construction and maintenance of structures on waterfront property. It specifies that property owners, lessees, occupants, or agents may incur fines for erecting structures without the required permit. Applies to waterfront property owners and operators.

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§ 22-117 Unauthorized construction and maintenance of structures on water front property; penalty.

AC § 22-117

Any owner, lessee, occupant or agent of any water front property who shall place or permit the erection, placing or maintaining of any structure referred to in section 22-116 of this subchapter without a permit as required by such section, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of one hundred dollars, in addition to all damages resulting therefrom. There shall be a further penalty of twenty-five dollars a day for each and every day such structure shall be maintained after the expiration of the time specified for the removal thereof in any notice served upon such owner, lessee or occupant or agent.

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