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Every numbered provision of the New York City Construction Codes, searchable in one place. Five editions side by side, so the same citation can be read in the code that governs the job.

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A copy of documents published by the New York City Department of Buildings, held here so that every provision is addressable by number and every link lands on the right page of the right PDF. Sources and limitations are set out at the foot of this page.

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Sources: New York City Department of Buildings, published construction code volumes for the 2022, 2014 and 2008 editions, the 1968 Building Code (Administrative Code Title 27) as published current to 1 July 2008, and the Existing Building Code as enacted by Local Law 33 of 2026. The PDFs served here are copies taken on the date shown above; DOB may have republished since, and every provision links to the official copy on nyc.gov. Provision text is extracted from those PDFs by machine, so numbering, tables and figures can differ from the printed page. The Existing Building Code does not take effect until 17 July 2027 and the text held here is the enacted local law rather than DOB’s published code volume. The 1968 volumes are set in two columns and their text is extracted in reading order rather than in printed layout, so tables in that edition lose their column alignment; its amendment history is read from the printed tables in the front matter, which name the amending local law but not an effective date. Nothing here is a code determination or a substitute for the official copy. © BPD Consultants.
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