Yonkers enforces the NY State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code and the local Housing and Building Maintenance Code. Vacant properties must register on the Vacant Building Registry and submit a securing plan.
Housing Code Enforcement at DHB handles blight, unsafe structures, and vacant building enforcement. The Vacant Building Registry requires owners of vacant buildings to file a plan for securing the building per DHB standards and to follow a maintenance procedure consistent with the Yonkers Building Code. City Maintenance Division may clean/secure abandoned properties and lien the costs to the owner.
Civil penalties, weekly re-inspection fees, and city-performed clean/secure charges placed as tax liens against the property.
Yonkers, NY
Overnight on-street parking is generally allowed on residential streets but subject to alternate-side street-cleaning rules. Some zones require residential p...
Yonkers, NY
Retaining walls over 4 ft tall (from bottom of footing to top) require a building permit and engineered drawings in Yonkers. Walls with surcharge loads requi...
Yonkers, NY
Chickens and livestock generally prohibited in Yonkers residential zones. Zoning code allows only conventional household pets in single-family and multi-fami...
Yonkers, NY
Yonkers enforces New York State smoke and carbon monoxide alarm requirements under 19 NYCRR Part 1225 (Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code). All dwelli...
Yonkers, NY
Yonkers is not in a designated wildfire zone. New York does not maintain WUI (wildland-urban interface) fire hazard maps, and Yonkers is a dense urban city i...
Yonkers, NY
Yonkers is an urban municipality with no defensible-space brush-clearance mandate. Property owners must keep lots free of overgrowth, debris, and nuisance ve...
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