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The authority local laws hand to city agencies, kept apart from what they must do

Each row is a power a local law enacted since 2014 grants a city agency: to inspect, write rules, charge a fee, or impose a penalty. A power has no deadline, because an agency uses it when it chooses to. What agencies are required to deliver is in the obligations table, and the methodology explains how each record is sorted.

Showing 1–10 of 1,735 matching powers

79 agencies 706 laws granting powers
Law Agency Power granted Type Committee Prime sponsor Enacted
Local Law 160 of 2026Int 1015-2026Department of Housing Preservation and DevelopmentMake electronic filing of applications available and require it by rule.rulemakingHousing and BuildingsPierina Ana SanchezOct 24, 2026
Local Law 160 of 2026Int 1015-2026Department of Housing Preservation and DevelopmentRequire an applicant to demonstrate compliance with the housing maintenance code.enforcement or inspectionHousing and BuildingsPierina Ana SanchezOct 24, 2026
Local Law 160 of 2026Int 1015-2026Department of Housing Preservation and DevelopmentRequire remediation of hazardous violations and impose a penalty if an applicant fails to clear them.enforcement or inspectionHousing and BuildingsPierina Ana SanchezOct 24, 2026
Local Law 160 of 2026Int 1015-2026Department of Housing Preservation and DevelopmentEstablish by rule requirements for designating qualifying rental units, including unit mix and distribution requirements.rulemakingHousing and BuildingsPierina Ana SanchezOct 24, 2026
Local Law 160 of 2026Int 1015-2026Department of Housing Preservation and DevelopmentTake remedial action, such as extending the restriction period, increasing qualifying units, imposing penalties, or revoking benefits, when an eligible rental building fails to comply with program requirements.enforcement or inspectionHousing and BuildingsPierina Ana SanchezOct 24, 2026
Local Law 160 of 2026Int 1015-2026Department of Housing Preservation and DevelopmentProvide the required tenant notice itself for work carried out under an HPD-supervised loan program.notice or postingHousing and BuildingsPierina Ana SanchezOct 24, 2026
Local Law 160 of 2026Int 1015-2026Law DepartmentInstitute an action or proceeding to determine whether an owner or interest-holder has harassed or unlawfully evicted tenants.enforcement or inspectionHousing and BuildingsPierina Ana SanchezOct 24, 2026
Local Law 160 of 2026Int 1015-2026the district attorney of any county within the city of New YorkInstitute an action or proceeding to determine whether an owner or interest-holder has harassed or unlawfully evicted tenants.enforcement or inspectionHousing and BuildingsPierina Ana SanchezOct 24, 2026
Local Law 160 of 2026Int 1015-2026Department of Housing Preservation and DevelopmentTransmit an issued certificate of eligibility and reasonable cost to the department of finance.otherHousing and BuildingsPierina Ana SanchezOct 24, 2026
Local Law 160 of 2026Int 1015-2026Department of Housing Preservation and DevelopmentRequire certifications and consents necessary to access records, including tax records, to enforce program eligibility requirements.enforcement or inspectionHousing and BuildingsPierina Ana SanchezOct 24, 2026
Created by Tal Roded · NYCuriosity · Source: Author's analysis of enacted local law text from NYC Legistar

Reprinted powers: Powers a law only reprints are listed under the law that created them, or marked as existing code. How this is measured

What counts as a power: authority a local law gives a city agency, office, or officer to act if it chooses to, granted with "may", "is authorized to", "is empowered to", or "shall have the power to". A provision that also requires the agency to do something counts as a duty and appears in the obligations table.

Extraction and verification: powers are extracted from the enacted legislation text on NYC Legistar using Claude, and every quoted passage is mechanically checked against the law text. Rows whose quote could not be verified verbatim are marked in the row detail. Check a record against the law text before relying on it.

Agency names: normalized with the NYC Agencies and Governance Organizations dataset (NYC Open Data), so "DOT", "Dept of Transportation", and "Department of Transportation" resolve to one agency.