NYC Admin Code › Chapter 2: Housing Maintenance Code › Subchapter 2: Maintenance, Services, and Utilities › Article 4: Control of Pests and Other Asthma Allergen Triggers
§ 27-2017.1 Owners' responsibility to remediate
The existence of an indoor allergen hazard in any dwelling unit in a multiple dwelling is hereby declared to constitute a condition dangerous to health. An owner of a dwelling shall keep the premises free from pests and other indoor allergen hazards and from any condition conducive to indoor allergen hazards, and shall prevent the reasonably foreseeable occurrence of such a conditions and shall expeditiously remediate such conditions and any underlying defect, when such underlying defect exists, consistent with section 27-2017.8 and the rules promulgated pursuant to section 27-2017.9.
- Source
- NYC Admin Code, as published by American Legal Publishing, the City's official publisher
- Last amended
- Effective January 19, 2019
- Checked
- Matched the official code on October 1, 2026
Amendment history
- (L.L. 2018/055, 1/19/2018, eff. 1/19/2019; Am. L.L. 2019/051, 3/16/2019, retro. eff. 1/19/2019)
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