2024 and 2025 New York City Lead-Based Paint Regulation Updates

While New York City banned lead paint for residential use in 1960, many older buildings may still have it, warns the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC Health). This is why owners of residential buildings with rental units that were built before 1960 (or in some cases, between 1960 and 1978) where young children live or regularly spend 10 or more hours each week, are required to address lead paint hazards by inspecting their properties for any underlying conditions and safely making repairs.

The following are changes for 2024 and 2025 listed by New York City Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) for building owners regarding lead-based paint testing, lead-based paint recordkeeping, and lead-based paint audits that are now mandated as a result of recently passed legislation.

Local Law 122 of 2023

• Provide annual notice and investigation records whenever lead-based paint hazard or turnover violations are issued. The requirement became effective on September 1, 2024.
  
  
• Provide XRF testing records, which an owner is required to have, whenever a lead-based paint hazard or turnover violation is issued beginning August 2025.
  
  

Local Law 111 of 2023

• Conduct XRF testing of common areas by August 2025. Records of this testing must be maintained and submitted to HPD upon request. Note that owners are already obligated to have all apartments tested by August 2025. HPD recommends that owners apply for an Exemption for all apartments and common areas that test negative or for which the property owner abates all lead-based paint surfaces.
  
  

Local Law 123 of 2023

• If a child under six resides in a unit with presumed lead-based paint in a multiple dwelling built prior to 1960 or a dwelling unit in a private dwelling erected prior to January 1, 1960 where each dwelling unit is to be occupied by persons other than the owner or the owner’s family, on January 1, 2025, the property owner must abate the lead-based paint on door and window friction surfaces, and remediate lead paint hazards, including making all floors smooth and cleanable, by July 2027
• If a child under six comes to reside in a unit with presumed lead-based paint, after January 1, 2025, the property owner must abate the lead-based paint on door and window friction surfaces, and remediate lead paint hazards, including making all floors smooth and cleanable within three years of the date that the child comes to reside there.
  
  

To help in these efforts, CTSI offers lead-based paint testing, monitoring, consulting, and training services. Their EPA lead certified risk assessors and inspectors have successfully performed thousands of projects for daycare centers, construction firms, landlords, facility managers, schools, universities, and other clients. CTSI’s services comply with NYC Health, HUD, and EPA guidelines.

To learn more about lead or other industrial hygiene, indoor air quality, environmental, health, and safety services, please visit www.ctsiweb.com, email contactus@ctsiweb.com, or call (212) 971-7016.

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