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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.
Overall, 19 violations were completed or defaulted, and an additional four were open which required a certificate of correction. The DOB issued 64 building-code violations to the garage's owner, 57 Ann Street Realty Association, between 1976 and 2023. [7] Prior to the collapse, there were no recent permits for construction at 57 Ann Street. [8]
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 regulations). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Department of Buildings used this law for the first time in January 2008, banning engineer Leon St. Clair Nation from filing any work in the City for ...
Before the crane accident, New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) had already issued 13 citations for safety violations at the construction site, two of which were considered serious violations. The DOB and Mayor Michael Bloomberg later stated, to the ire of local residents, that the infractions were normal for a project of that scale. [3] [8]
Taxi and Vehicle for Hire Hearings (Taxi and Limousine Tribunal), for hearings conducted on summonses for TLC rules and regulations violations issued by the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) NYPD; Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA), for hearings on applications for zoning variances and special-use ...
The New York City Department of Finance (DOF) is the revenue service, taxation agency and recorder of deeds of the government of New York City. [2] Its Parking Violations Bureau is an administrative court that adjudicates parking violations, while its Sheriff's Office is the city's primary civil law enforcement agency.
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.
In 2006, Scarano was brought before the City's Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings for alleged zoning violations. The allegations were mutually settled in August 2006 with the settlement specifying that it was "not an admission of guilt or liability" by Scarano [ 27 ] and the DOB agreed to keep private "any information or documents ...