• Property Registration
• Heat and Hot Water Requirements 
• Basement and Cellar Occupancy Requirements 
• Carbon Monoxide and Smoke Detectors 
• Lead-Based Paint Treatment 
• Useful Information about Housing Rules and Regulations (for Building Owners and Tenants) in English, Chinese , Russian and Spanish (in PDF)
• Section 8 Administrative Plan (in PDF)
• Guide to HPD Enforcement Services (in PDF)
• Alternative Enforcement Program    

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• Property Registration 
  • Frequently Asked Questions about Property Registration (in PDF)
• Heat and Hot Water Requirements
  • Frequently Asked Questions about Heat and Hot Water Requirements (in PDF) 
• Basement and Cellar Occupancy Requirements
  • Please CLICK HERE to browse Frequently Asked Questions about Occupancy of Cellars and Basements in One- and Two- Family Dwellings. (in PDF)  
• Carbon Monoxide and Smoke Detectors
  • Frequently Asked Questions about Carbon Monoxide 
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the New York City Carbon Dioxide Detecting Device Act of 2004 (in PDF)
  • Rules pertaining to carbon monoxide detecting devices (in PDF)
  • Department of Buildings (DOB) Carbon Monoxide Rules 
  • Residential owners may download and print the Carbon Monoxide Detector Certificate of Installation (in PDF) or submit the Carbon Monoxide Detector Certificate of Installation online. Click here to go to the application HPDOnline. When you enter the HPDOnline application, type in your building address. On the next screen, look for the left menu bar and click on the option "Carbon Monoxide Certificate." Then proceed to complete the online Carbon Monoxide Detector Certificate of Installation.
  • Smoke Detector Certificate of Installation (in PDF)
  • Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Detector - Certificate of Installation (in PDF)
  • Carbon Monoxide - Affidavit of Exemption (in PDF)
• Lead-Based Paint Treatment:
  • Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning: What All Tenants Should Know About Local Law 1. The NYC Housing Maintenance Code requires that residential owners distribute this brochure to each of their tenants at lease up and lease renewal:
    1. Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning: What All Tenants Should Know About Local Law 1 (In the process of revision) 
    2. Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning: What All Tenants Should Know About Local Law 1 (In the process of revision)
  • Are you Ready for NYC's New Lead Paint Law? (in PDF)
  • Are you Ready for NYC's New Lead Paint Law? (for building owners) (in PDF)
  • Guide to Local Law #1 of 2004 Work Practices (in PDF) 
• Alternative Enforcement Program:
  • Frequently Asked Questions on the Alternative Enforcement Program (Local Law #29 of 2007) in PDF. The AEP is an additional enforcement mechanism that HPD will use to enforce the correction of housing maintenance conditions in distressed multiple dwellings. The AEP will provide HPD with the ability to identify multiple dwellings that are not properly maintained and ensure that violations and the conditions that caused the violations are corrected. Using criteria set forth in the statute, each year HPD will designate 200 different multiple dwellings for participation in the AEP.