What an ECB summons pending at OATH means.
An ECB summons pending at OATH has been issued and not decided. It has a hearing date, and for almost all of these that date has not arrived yet.
21,870 DOB summonses at OATH/ECB are still pending: 14.0% of the 156,215 decided or pending. 100.0% carry a penalty figure, the amount at stake. Averaged across all of them, that comes to 3,451 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 outcome is still open, and the summons can still land on any rung of the ladder above. Whether it ends up cheap or costly depends largely on whether anyone appears.
What to do
Find the hearing date on the summons and check it by summons number on the city's site. The penalty figure on a pending summons is the amount at stake, not an amount the hearing office has imposed.
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Buildings with summonses reading Pending
12 of the 1,422 buildings with a page on this site that have summonses reading Pending, a different 12 each week, listed by street. Each count matches the Status column on that building’s page.
- 41-41 44 Street, Queens 2 summonses reading Pending
- 11-15 46 Road, Queens 1 summons reading Pending
- 3576 Dekalb Avenue, Bronx 1 summons reading Pending
- 5 East 93 Street, Brooklyn 11 summonses reading Pending
- 18 East 116 Street, Manhattan 1 summons reading Pending
- 226 East 203 Street, Bronx 1 summons reading Pending
- 1449 Fulton Street, Brooklyn 1 summons reading Pending
- 152 Marcus Garvey Boulevard, Brooklyn 1 summons reading Pending
- 556 Thomas S Boyland Street, Brooklyn 1 summons reading Pending
- 1565 Townsend Avenue, Bronx 1 summons reading Pending
- 2357 Walton Avenue, Bronx 1 summons reading Pending
- 580 West 176 Street, Manhattan 1 summons reading Pending
Does the penalty figure on a pending summons mean I have to pay it?
No. Nothing is decided while a summons is pending. The figure is what the summons puts at stake, and we never treat it as a bill.
What happens if nobody appears on the hearing date?
The summons is decided in default, the most expensive outcome at the median. The default page shows what that costs.
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.