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NYC Admin Code › Chapter 2: Housing Maintenance Code › Subchapter 2: Maintenance, Services, and Utilities › Article 3: Painting

§ 27-2015 Courts and shafts

a. The owner of a multiple dwelling shall whitewash the walls enclosing all courts and shafts not made of light-colored brick or stone or shall paint such walls a light color, and shall maintain them in a clean condition.

b. As often as it deems necessary, the department may require the owner of a multiple dwelling:

(1) To rewhitewash or repaint the walls enclosing courts and shafts not made of a light-colored brick or stone; and

(2) To clean the walls enclosing courts and shafts made of a light-colored brick or stone.

c. This section does not apply to:

(1) Outer courts which open on a street; or

(2) Courts which exceed the minimum dimensions set forth in section twenty-six of the multiple dwelling law by at least fifty percent.

Source
NYC Admin Code, as published by American Legal Publishing, the City's official publisher
Last amended
No amendment date in the official history
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Matched the official code on October 1, 2026

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