Sentences with phrase «paint hazards»

Only 93 homes have been visited by a contractor to conduct inspections and risk assessments for potential lead paint hazards.

How well do you know your obligations to disclose certain information about lead - based paint and lead - based paint hazards in residential real estate?

Requires sellers and their agents to disclose known lead - based paint and lead - based paint hazards within a home to the actual buyers, but not to everyone that views the property.

Just keep an eye out for anything too vintage, which could be a lead paint hazard.

You have at least ten (10) days to do an inspection or risk assessment for lead - based paint or lead - based paint hazards.

A Department of Investigation probe revealed that Olatoye falsely certified, to federal regulators, inspections for lead paint hazards in about 55,000 units.

Certify that rental units built before 1978 are free of lead paint hazards by submitting a compliance letter from a licensed inspector.

The task of inspecting homes for lead paint hazards falls primarily to the Erie County Health Department, which has said it could use help.

Feds have revealed that the New York City Housing Authority, despite saying that it had inspected all apartments suspected of containing lead paint hazards annually, actually did so only every other year.

A January inspection report by the Erie County Health Department cited 17 lead paint hazards inside and outside the white, two - story wood - frame house at 134 Rees St. Public records show the house is owned by one of Greenleaf's companies.

Should a child be living in an apartment where a lead abatement (lead paint hazard removal) is taking place?

With the new level of attention to lead - based paint hazards caused by the disclosure law, it's natural for buyers or renters to ask, «Does this dwelling have lead paint?»

As long as the salesperson has informed the sellers or lessors of their obligations to disclose, the salesperson won't be held liable for the failure to disclose to a purchaser or lessee the presence of lead - based paint or lead - based paint hazards known by sellers or lessors but not disclosed to the salesperson, says NAR.

Before executing the lease, provide the lessee with a copy of the federal pamphlet Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home, as well as copies, if available, of any existing lead paint test results; disclose the presence of any known lead - based paint hazards on the property.

NAR wrote a letter to the EPA about lead paint hazard regulation in public and commercial buildings following renovations and remodeling activities.

The Common Council passed legislation Tuesday to address chipping and peeling lead paint hazards in rental units following years of reporting by Investigative Post on Buffalo's serious lead poisoning problem.

The law does not require complete abatement of all potential sources of lead based paint which are intact while the landlord must conduct annual inspections in order to prevent a lead paint hazard from developing to the detriment of those present in the apartment.

Often, upon investigation, the environmental findings of the Department of Health will reveal persistent lead paint hazards within the very surfaces which were required by this law to have been permanently removed before the tenant moved into the dwelling.

In 1992 the U.S. Congress passed the Residential Lead - Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act, which requires seller disclosure of lead - based paint and lead - based paint hazards in connection with the sale or lease of pre-1978 dwellings.

The City of New York has largely failed to enforce this key provision of the law which was envisioned to allow for the practical eradication of lead paint hazards in the City of New York by 2010.

Torres — who predicted support for the measure — said it was based on a New York Post report that in November revealed how de Blasio was itching to fire DOI Commissioner Mark Peters for exposing a slew of administration screw - ups, including the blockbuster that New York City Housing Authority boss Shola Olatoye falsely told the feds 55,000 apartments had been checked for lead - paint hazards.

Olatoye acknowledged residents» concerns about possible lead paint hazards and winter healing failures.

She also cited a report from 2014 in which the city inspected 36 apartments of the 177,666 apartments in the public housing system, or less than 1 percent of units, and found one lead paint hazard.

In comparison, Rochester inspects the interiors of about 10,000 apartments each year for lead paint hazards and tests lead paint dust to determine the concentrations in high - risk neighborhoods.

That's a fraction of the 85,000 homes in Buffalo at risk for lead paint hazards, 12,000 of which have documented lead problems where children under the age of six live.

A city Department of Investigation report in November revealed that Olatoye had falsely certified inspections for lead - paint hazards in roughly 55,000 apartments.

The agency also misled the public and federal officials by saying inspections for lead paint hazards were happening between 2012 and 2016 when they weren't.

Certificates of occupancy will not be granted to dwellings with lead - based paint hazards.

BNET will conduct concentrated code enforcement in zip codes with the highest percentage of lead paint hazards: 14211, 14213 and 14215.

After a four - year gap in inspections, NYC Housing Authority officials found potential lead - paint hazards in 81 percent of the nearly 8,900 apartments housing children under 6 that its employees inspected in 2017, The NY Post has learned.

NYC's public - housing authority — already under fire for ignoring lead - paint hazards and failing to get heat to freezing tenants — left a Brooklyn family to fend for themselves after the ceiling came crashing down.

«For too long the City of Utica has struggled with the debilitating impact of lead paint contamination and this funding will help our community clean up lead paint hazards and make sure neighborhoods are safe for children and families.

DOI Commissioner Mark Peters revealed last week that his ongoing investigation includes a review of whether roughly 20,000 apartments have been improperly abated for lead paint hazards and exempted from inspection.

A risk assessment is an on - site investigation of residential dwellings to discover any lead based paint hazards.

Brown's new initiatives for lead in drinking water testing come one day after the Buffalo Common Council passed legislation aimed at addressing chipping and peeling lead paint hazards in rental units following two years of reporting by Investigative Post on Buffalo's serious lead poisoning problem.

A Daily News investigation published in June 2016 detailed the extent of lead paint in NYCHA's aging buildings: 55,000 apartments with potential lead paint hazards, including 4,321 that list children 6 and under as tenants.

After a four - year gap in inspections, NYC Housing Authority officials found potential lead - paint hazards in 81 percent of the nearly 8,900 apartments housing children under 6 that its employees inspected...

From 2010 to 2015, in response to positive tests for lead in child residents, 17 public housing apartments of 121 tested were found to have a lead paint hazard and were abated.

The HUD grant of $ 3.1 million to Onondaga County is aimed at identifying and controlling lead - based paint hazards in 175 privately - owned housing units over three years, Schumer said.

Syracuse also lost federal funding in 2015 for its program to abate lead paint hazards in old homes, which had averaged about $ 2 million a year for two decades.

The grant money is part of a broader federal initiative by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rid the country's housing stock of lead - paint hazards.

The city now says that it will provide free lead testing to all families in the 2,363 Housing Authority apartments where a potential lead paint hazard was found.

Some 85,000 homes and apartments in Buffalo are considered at risk for lead paint hazards.

The seller or sales agent must tell you what the seller actually knows about the homes lead - based paint or lead - based paint hazards and give you any relevant records or reports.

The housing assistance programs imposed contractual and regulatory obligations on the BHA to inspect the leased premises for lead - based paint hazards.

Statements such as «[plaintiff is] entitled to safe, affordable, and decent housing, and the apartment would be inspected...» and «it would be taken care of» did not constitute «explicit and specific assurances» that the «premises [were] free of lead paint hazards.»

Plaintiff argued that BHA breached its duty to inspect for lead paint and enforce elimination of lead paint hazards.