What POP/IN-VIO means on a DOB summons at OATH.
A summons marked POP/IN-VIO was decided in violation. We have not found an official meaning for POP in the city's published documentation for this data, and we do not guess at one.
11,782 DOB summonses at OATH/ECB have the outcome Pop/In-Vio: 7.5% of the 156,215 decided or pending. 100.0% were given a penalty. Averaged across all of them, that comes to 1,916 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
What the data does give is how many there are and what they cost, both on the ladder above. Neither depends on knowing what the letters stand for.
What to do
Read the decision itself, which states the outcome in words rather than an abbreviation, and look the summons up by its number on the city's site.
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Buildings with summonses reading Pop/In-Vio
12 of the 18 buildings with a page on this site that have summonses reading Pop/In-Vio, a different 12 each week, listed by street. Each count matches the Status column on that building’s page.
- 1160 229 Drive South, Bronx 4 summonses reading Pop/In-Vio
- 2200 Aqueduct Avenue East, Bronx 13 summonses reading Pop/In-Vio
- 1450 Clay Avenue, Bronx 4 summonses reading Pop/In-Vio
- 301 East 99 Street, Manhattan 6 summonses reading Pop/In-Vio
- 315 East 102 Street, Manhattan 1 summons reading Pop/In-Vio
- 654 East 149 Street, Bronx 2 summonses reading Pop/In-Vio
- 1010 East 178 Street, Bronx 1 summons reading Pop/In-Vio
- 3605 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx 1 summons reading Pop/In-Vio
- 2240 Walton Avenue, Bronx 2 summonses reading Pop/In-Vio
- 113 West 144 Street, Manhattan 1 summons reading Pop/In-Vio
- 133 West 144 Street, Manhattan 1 summons reading Pop/In-Vio
- 162 West 144 Street, Manhattan 1 summons reading Pop/In-Vio
What does POP stand for?
We do not know, and we are not going to guess. Nothing in the published documentation for the city's ECB violations dataset expands it, and a glossary that fills a gap with a plausible-sounding answer is worse than one that states the gap. If you have a decision in hand, it says in words what the abbreviation means.
Then what is this page for?
The cost. Every figure on the ladder above is counted from the city's own data and holds whether or not anyone documents the abbreviation. That is the part no one else publishes.
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.