What ADMIT/IN-VIO means on a DOB summons at OATH.
A summons marked ADMIT/IN-VIO is one where the party cited admitted the violation instead of contesting it, and the summons was decided in violation. Nearly every one of them also has a payment on file.
11,029 DOB summonses at OATH/ECB have the outcome Admit/In-Vio: 7.1% of the 156,215 decided or pending. 100.0% were given a penalty. Averaged across all of them, that comes to 1,852 dollars per summons.
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What each outcome costs
| Hearing outcome | Relative cost | Dollars per summons | Summonses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default | 7,320 | 35,162 | |
| Pending | 3,451 | 21,870 | |
| In Violation | 2,200 | 46,569 | |
| Pop/In-Vio | 1,916 | 11,782 | |
| Admit/In-Vio | 1,852 | 11,029 | |
| Stipulation/In-Vio | 780 | 2,516 | |
| Cured/In-Vio | 2 | 11,926 | |
| Dismissed | none | 15,361 |
Each figure is the total penalty for that outcome divided by every summons in it, rounded to the dollar: 156,215 summonses, decided or pending, issued September 30, 2023 through September 24, 2026. The penalty is the amount set on the day of the decision, not a running total and not what the city’s books show today; for a pending summons it is the amount at stake. Summonses the city left with no hearing status are not counted.
What happens next
The charge is answered and the penalty is set. Admitting settles the summons but does not correct the condition, which is closed out separately with the Department of Buildings.
What to do
Before treating an admission as the cheap way out, compare it with the other outcomes on the ladder above. It is not the cheapest, and it is not far below the cost of contesting and losing.
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Buildings with summonses reading Admit/In-Vio
12 of the 286 buildings with a page on this site that have summonses reading Admit/In-Vio, a different 12 each week, listed by street. Each count matches the Status column on that building’s page.
- 34-11 58 Street, Queens 4 summonses reading Admit/In-Vio
- 1641 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan 1 summons reading Admit/In-Vio
- 1930 Anthony Avenue, Bronx 1 summons reading Admit/In-Vio
- 120 Beach 26 Street, Queens 1 summons reading Admit/In-Vio
- 43-60 Douglaston Parkway, Queens 1 summons reading Admit/In-Vio
- 700 Esplanade Gdns Plaza, Manhattan 1 summons reading Admit/In-Vio
- 21 Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklyn 1 summons reading Admit/In-Vio
- 2162 Valentine Avenue, Bronx 1 summons reading Admit/In-Vio
- 2825 Webb Avenue, Bronx 5 summonses reading Admit/In-Vio
- 338 West 11 Street, Manhattan 1 summons reading Admit/In-Vio
- 33 West 89 Street, Manhattan 1 summons reading Admit/In-Vio
- 114 West 143 Street, Manhattan 1 summons reading Admit/In-Vio
Is admitting cheaper than fighting?
Not at the median, where the two sit close together. What separates the expensive outcomes from the cheap ones here is not admitting or contesting: it is appearing at all, and whether the summons was cured.
Does admitting end the matter?
It decides the summons. Nearly every admitted summons in our copy of the city's data has a payment on file, the highest share of any outcome here.
The figures are citywide totals. The buildings above each link to their own page, and no one cited on a summons is named here. Nothing on this page is legal advice. Counts from the DOB ECB Violations dataset on NYC Open Data. All status codes, how a DOB violation reaches OATH, what a default costs.