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File #: Int 1217-2025    Version: Name: Building inspections and reporting following complaints related to rats and conditions that attract rats.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 3/12/2025
Enactment date: 1/3/2026 Law number: 2026/008
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to building inspections and reporting following complaints related to rats and conditions that attract rats
Sponsors: Susan Zhuang, Christopher Marte, Chris Banks, Farah N. Louis, Robert F. Holden, Kamillah Hanks, Rita C. Joseph, Shekar Krishnan, Diana I. Ayala, Oswald J. Feliz, Sandra Ung, Crystal Hudson, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Julie Menin, Linda Lee, Amanda C. Farías, Lynn C. Schulman, Eric Dinowitz, Mercedes Narcisse, James F. Gennaro, Inna Vernikov, Frank Morano, Joann Ariola
Council Member Sponsors: 24
Summary: This bill would require DOHMH to perform a building inspection in response to any 311 complaint relating to rat activity or conditions that might attract rats within 14 days of receiving such complaint. If unable to complete such inspection, DOHMH would be required to conduct a subsequent inspection within 20 days of the initial inspection. The bill would also require that a record of such inspections include a description of the inspector’s observations and whether DOHMH conducted any enforcement related to rats in the building; such records would be made publicly available online.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1217-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1217, 3. Int. No. 1217, 4. March 12, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-12-25, 6. Committee Report 11/20/25, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 8. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 9. Hearing Testimony 11/20/25, 10. Appearance Cards 11/20/25, 11. Hearing Transcript 11/20/25, 12. Proposed Int. No. 1217-A - 12/1/25, 13. Committee Report 12/4/25, 14. Hearing Transcript 12/4/25, 15. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 16. December 4, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 17. Int. No. 1217-A (FINAL), 18. Int. No. 1217-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 19. Int. No. 1217-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 20. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12-4-25
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1/5/2026ASusan Zhuang City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/3/2026ASusan Zhuang Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
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12/4/2025*Susan Zhuang Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/4/2025*Susan Zhuang Committee on Housing and Buildings Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
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12/4/2025ASusan Zhuang Committee on Housing and Buildings Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
11/20/2025*Susan Zhuang Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/20/2025*Susan Zhuang Committee on Housing and Buildings Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2025*Susan Zhuang City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2025*Susan Zhuang City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1217-A

 

By Council Members Zhuang, Marte, Banks, Louis, Holden, Hanks, Joseph, Krishnan, Ayala, Feliz, Ung, Hudson, Sanchez, Gutiérrez, Menin, Lee, Farías, Schulman, Dinowitz, Narcisse, Gennaro, Vernikov, Morano and Ariola

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to building inspections and reporting following complaints related to rats and conditions that attract rats

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-133.4 to read as follows:

§ 17-133.4 Inspections for rats. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “covered complaint” means a complaint or service request submitted to the department through the 311 customer service center or other means relating to rats or conditions that attract rats in a building.

b. Inspections. Within 14 days of receipt of a covered complaint, the department shall make its best effort to inspect the building to which such complaint pertains for signs of rat activity or conditions that attract rats, unless the department has inspected such building for the same within 90 days of the submission of such complaint or the department is otherwise currently engaged in pest control activities at the location of such building. If during such an inspection the department is unable to access the interior of a building as necessary to conduct the inspection, or otherwise unable to complete the inspection, the department shall make its best effort to conduct a subsequent inspection of the building within 20 days of the initial inspection. During an inspection, the department shall record the following information:

1. The date of the inspection;

2. The street address of the building so inspected;

3. Whether such building passed or failed such inspection, as determined by the department;

4. If any notice of violation relating to the presence of rats or order to abate a condition related to the presence of rats is issued to the person in charge of such building in response to such inspection, the number of such notices of violation or orders to abate so issued; and

5. The inspector’s observations of signs of rats or conditions that attract rats during such inspection or any subsequent inspection.

c. Reporting. Within 30 days of completing an inspection pursuant to subdivision b of this section, or pursuant to any other lawful rat mitigation program inspection conducted by the department related to rats or conditions that attract rats, the department shall make publicly available on a website the information collected during such inspection, including the information required to be recorded pursuant to subdivision b of this section, to the extent such information is available for such inspection. Such information may be made available as part of an interactive map on rat activity on a city website wherein such information may be viewed upon selecting an individual address or as described in explanatory text on such website.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

 

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11/25/2025, 11:05 p.m.