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The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is the department of the New York City government that enforces the city's building codes and zoning regulations, issues building permits, licenses, registers and disciplines certain construction trades, responds to structural emergencies and inspects over 1,000,000 new and existing buildings.
The Department of Buildings cannot revoke a professional's license to practice Architecture or Engineering, as that is controlled by the New York State Office of the Professions. However, since 2007 the State has allowed the DOB to refuse to accept plans filed by individuals who have been found to abuse the Self Certification process (or other ...
Department of Sanitation (which accounts for two-thirds of ECB summonses [5]) Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) has jurisdiction over disputes between businesses and the DCA or consumers, as well as some licensing cases that originate with the Business Integrity Commission , the NYPD , the American Society for the Prevention ...
Its purpose is to combat corruption in these industries from organized crime, and was created from the 2001 Organized Crime Control Commission, itself created from the 1996 Trade Waste Commission, the Markets Division in the Small Business Services Department, and the Gambling Commission. [3]
The $3-million settlement follows a string of scandals at the Department of Building and Safety. A onetime building inspector was sentenced to 2½ years in prison in 2014 following a federal ...
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is the department of the government of New York City [1] responsible for developing and maintaining the city's stock of affordable housing. Its regulations are compiled in title 28 of the New York City Rules. The Department is headed by a Commissioner, who is appointed by and reports ...
City said buildings were up to code – but they weren't. The majority of condos, in the century-old former National Casket Company building, are priced at more than $300,000.
Municipalities of Cumberland, Maryland, were given the power to condemn and seize insanitary buildings in 1915. [5]In 2000, a Swedish researcher reports a case study in which after many years of puzzlement and contention, a building that housed government employees was condemned for sick building syndrome; that is, something indeterminate about the building itself made the occupants ill.