N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 28-112.12: § 28-112.12 Reduction in fees or penalties for sponsoring site safety training.

The commissioner shall establish by rule a program for reducing the amount of any fee to be imposed upon a person or any civil penalty to be imposed upon a person for a violation, other than an immediately hazardous violation, where one or more of the following conditions is satisfied:

1. Such person demonstrates, in a form and manner established by the commissioner, that such person has paid, either directly or indirectly, for the costs of one or more workers to obtain the training needed to comply with section 3321 of the New York city building code or has otherwise arranged for such workers to receive such training at no cost to such workers, provided that this shall not include any worker trained pursuant to an agreement that such person was required to enter into pursuant to section 28-204.1.1 or any worker trained under a program developed pursuant to section 22-509 of the administrative code.

2. The fee or penalty to be imposed upon such person relates to a building site for which the owner of such site, or a person acting on such owner's behalf, demonstrates, in a form and manner established by the commissioner, that such owner or such person acting on such owner's behalf has paid, either directly or indirectly, for the costs of one or more workers to obtain the training needed to comply with section 3321 of the New York city building code or has otherwise arranged for such workers to receive such training at no cost to such workers, provided that this shall not include any worker trained pursuant to an agreement such person was required to enter into pursuant to section 28-204.1.1 or any worker trained under a program developed pursuant to section 22-509 of the administrative code.

(L.L. 2017/196, 10/16/2017, eff. 10/16/2017; Am. L.L. 2021/126, 11/7/2021, eff. 11/7/2022)