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[4] [5] [6] The first Buildings Department was created in Manhattan in 1892. In 1901 the New York State Legislature passed the Tenement Housing Act of 1901, which established a city Tenement Housing Department, including a Buildings Bureau and a Bureau of Inspection. [7] A citywide Department of Buildings though did not exist until 1936. [4]
The New York City Civil Service Commission (CSC) is the local civil service commission of the NY State Civil Service Commission within the New York City government that hears appeals by city employees and applicants that have been disciplined or disqualified.
The Sheriff's Office (Sheriff) is the primary civil law enforcement agency of New York City and the enforcement division of the New York City Department of Finance. The Fire Department (FDNY) provides fire protection, technical rescue, primary response to biological, chemical and radioactive hazards, and emergency medical services.
In 2003, New York City had roughly 61 city agencies employing an estimated 500 lawyers as administrative law judges and/or hearing officers/examiners. [13] Non-OATH tribunals that also operate in New York City include: The city DOF Parking Adjudications Division (Parking Violations Bureau) adjudicates parking violations. [14]
From November 2013 until January 2016, the NYC Housing, Preservation and Development agency, which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under the age of six, the age group most at risk of ingesting lead paint.
The New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) is a department of the New York City government tasked with recruiting, hiring, and training City employees, managing 55 public buildings, acquiring, selling, and leasing City property, purchasing over $1 billion in goods and services for City agencies, overseeing the greenest municipal vehicle fleet in the country, and ...
New York City Commissioner of Records and Information Services [28] New York City Commissioner of Sanitation [29] New York City Commissioner of Social Services - this Department was renamed from the Department of Welfare in 1967, [30] and split into the Department of Homeless Services and the Administration for Children's Services in 1993. [21]
Formed in 1996 by New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the Department of Design and Construction's function was to unify the Department of Transportation's street construction program, the Department of Environmental Protection's water main and sewer construction program and the Department of General Service's vast building program, including construction of Police, Fire and Sanitation buildings ...