Establishes a state library of pre-approved residential construction plans which are in compliance with the uniform code and certified by climate region.
Directs the state fire prevention and building code council to develop standards permitting single stairway residential buildings up to six stories or seventy-five feet in height in a city having a population of one million or more.
This bill expands criminal penalties for individuals and businesses that fail to fix fire or building code violations after receiving an official order. It directly affects property owners, tenants, contractors, architects, and other parties involved in construction or building maintenance by adding them to the list of people who can be prosecuted. Under the new rules, those who knowingly violate safety standards face misdemeanor charges with fines that increase over time, while those who simply ignore correction orders face a violation charge with lower fines and shorter jail terms. The law applies to anyone serving as an agent, tenant, or otherwise responsible for a building, ensuring that a wider range of parties can be held legally accountable for unsafe conditions.
Relates to actions and proceedings seeking an abatement of rent based on violations of the housing maintenance code, applicable housing standards, the building code, or the health code; relates to the number of housing judges assigned to certain actions.
Establishes the large projects historic rehabilitation tax credit and the "white elephant" housing historic rehabilitation projects tax credit program for qualified rehabilitation expenditures totaling fifty million dollars or more with respect to a certified historic structure that has been vacant, as determined by local code enforcement or other reasonable means, for at least ten of fifteen consecutive years preceding the date of the taxpayer's application for the rehabilitation credit.
Establishes the build up New York pilot program to provide grants to eligible municipalities that construct new accessory dwelling unit housing projects built on top of existing buildings that utilize mass timber and serve certain households; establishes the mass timber for affordable housing program to provide tax credits for eligible taxpayers who use mass timber in certain new construction or major retrofits of existing buildings that primarily serve households up to one hundred fifty percent of the area median income; establishes tax credits for mass timber production.
Prohibits a municipal corporation from prohibiting the issuing of a permit for the construction of any new commercial, residential, or mixed-use building on the basis that such building will be a mixed-fuel building.
Requires municipalities which issue building permits to provide pre-approved construction documents at no cost for the types of residential buildings permitted to be constructed in such jurisdiction.
Establishes the green affordable pre-electrification program to assist owners and tenants in residential properties in curing structural and building code defects which render the properties ineligible for improvements or projects relating to energy savings, green-house gas emissions reductions, climate change adaptation and resiliency project grants.
Requires the inspection of non-fireproof buildings in a city having a population of one million or more every three years; requires compliance with the New York city housing maintenance code and the New York city construction codes; requires those dwellings not in compliance with such code at the time of inspection to make repairs or improvements necessary to comply with such standards within six months of such inspection, or a lien shall be placed upon the dwelling.
