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    DOB Certificate Of Occupancy

    Metadata Updated: April 12, 2026

    A Certificate of Occupancy (CO) states a building’s legal use and/or type of permitted occupancy. New buildings must have a CO, and existing buildings must have a current or amended CO when there is a change in use, egress or type of occupancy. No one may legally occupy a building until the Department has issued a Certificate of Occupancy or Temporary Certificate of Occupancy. The Department issues a final Certificate of Occupancy when the completed work matches the submitted plans for new buildings or major alterations. It issues a Letter of Completion for minor alterations to properties. These documents confirm the work complies with all applicable laws, all paperwork has been completed, all fees owed to the Department have been paid, all relevant violations have been resolved and all necessary approvals have been received from other City Agencies.

    This dataset contains all Certificates of Occupancy issued from 7/12/2012 to March 2021. PDFs of the actual COs are viewable in www.nyc.gov/bis.

    For COs issued since March 2021, see DOB NOW: Certificate of Occupancy dataset.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 12, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NYC JSON

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    Additional Metadata

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 12, 2026
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    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/bs8b-p36w
    Data First Published 2017-07-11
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-11
    Category Housing & Development
    Public Access Level public
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofnewyork.us/data.json
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    Harvest Source Title NYC JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/bs8b-p36w
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e87bb6eec2e1acdd2d383de7297918ea2e5a9ad7affc4990152516d3d87a64da
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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