NYC Admin Code › Chapter 2: Housing Maintenance Code › Subchapter 5: Legal Remedies and Enforcement › Article 3: Criminal Penalty
§ 27-2119 Penalties; refusal to admit and interference with inspection; failure to submit reports
Any person (1) who refuses entry, or access to an officer or inspector of the department to any premises or part thereof that the officer or inspector is lawfully authorized to inspect, or who unreasonably interferes with an authorized inspection; or (2) who fails to file any report or other paper which such person is required to file, under this code, except a statement of registration or other paper under article two of subchapter four of this chapter, shall be guilty of an offense, punishable by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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- NYC Admin Code, as published by American Legal Publishing, the City's official publisher
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- Matched the official code on October 1, 2026
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