NYC Admin Code › Chapter 2: Housing Maintenance Code › Subchapter 2: Maintenance, Services, and Utilities › Article 14: Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control
§ 27-2056.16 Exemption for emergency conditions
For emergency actions immediately necessary to safeguard against imminent danger to human life, health or safety or to protect property from further major damage, such as when a property has been damaged by a natural disaster, fire, structural collapse, cascading water, lack of utilities or other emergency conditions, occupants shall be protected from exposure to lead in dust and debris generated by such emergency actions to the extent practicable and the requirements of this article shall not apply. This exemption applies only to repairs immediately necessary to respond to the emergency. The requirements of this article shall apply to any work undertaken subsequent to or above and beyond such emergency actions.
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- NYC Admin Code, as published by American Legal Publishing, the City's official publisher
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- No amendment date in the official history
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- Matched the official code on October 1, 2026
Publisher's notes
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- Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2004/001.
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