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Good point, well made. Thanks, @Jamie Hall

While I agree with you in principle, @DanHolohan , I have one other — and it's major — concern. If this regulation is necessary — and it may be — it points to two underlying problems. The first is that the people who own and maintain buildings are assumed to be incompetent to perform proper maintenance. This may be true… but the assumption is unfortunate. The second, however, is a deeper problem: it was one assumed that the parents had an absolute and unbreakable responsibility to care for their children, to teach them well (in many different ways!) and to protect them from harm..

This relatively minor regulation is just another one saying that the parents can outsource that responsibility to "society" without consequence — indeed that it is preferable that they should do so.

Not sure I like that.

To All,

This law which is ID as 27-2056.21 in the NYC administrative code passed by the City council by a super majority for the mayors approval does not say:

1 Inspections are to be done annually 2 Inspectors must be master plumbers

The law which is very likely to go into effect if the mayor decides to veto it or not does say:

1 Inspections are to be done semi annually 2 Inspectors can be: a licensed master plumber, high-pressure boiler operating engineer or stationary engineer, oil burning equipment installer, mechanical contractor, building superintendent, engineer or stationary engineer, oil burning equipment installer, mechanical contractor, building superintendent, heating plant technician employed by the New York city housing authority, heating maintenance worker employed by the New York city housing authority, an individual working under the direct and continuing supervision of a licensed master plumber, an individual working under the direct and continuing supervision of a licensed high-pressure boiler operating engineer or stationary engineer, an individual working under the direct and continuing supervision of a licensed oil burning equipment installer, or an individual working under the direct and continuing supervision of a mechanical contractor that conducts inspections of steam radiators pursuant to this article.

There is a difference between proposed legislation INT 925 and what the council voted on.