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Revocation of Plumber’s License Too Severe a Penalty

The First Department determined that the NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) imposed too harsh a penalty when it revoked petitioner’s master plumbing license after finding she violated the NYC Building Code:

…[W]e find that the penalty of revocation was excessive upon considering the following factors: the license is petitioner’s sole means of livelihood; this was the only instance of misconduct in an otherwise unblemished history as a licensed master plumber since 2001; there was no resultant harm to the public or the agency; and petitioner seemingly acknowledged the potential for harm when she informed the owner that his worker’s performance was inadequate and proposed that her workers correct the violations … . We note that the record demonstrated that DOB’s precedent indicates that in several other instances where licensees have committed similar acts of misconduct by performing work prohibited by the Code and/or submitting false reports or documents to DOB, which potentially placed the public at greater risk of harm than the misconduct at issue here, the agency imposed far less severe penalties. Matter of Ward v City of New York 2013 NY Slip Op 07569, 1st Dept 11-14-13

 

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