What STIPULATION/IN-VIO means on a DOB summons at OATH.
A summons marked STIPULATION/IN-VIO was settled by an agreement between the party cited and the city rather than by a contested hearing, and recorded as in violation. It is the least common outcome here, and the cheapest of those that carry a penalty.
2,516 DOB summonses at OATH/ECB have the outcome Stipulation/In-Vio: 1.6% of the 156,215 decided or pending. 99.8% were given a penalty. Averaged across all of them, that comes to 780 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 agreement's terms govern. A stipulation decides the summons on agreed terms, and the condition itself is still closed out with the Department of Buildings.
What to do
Read the stipulation for what it requires and by when. Its terms are what you have to do; the figures on this page describe other people's summonses, not yours.
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Buildings with summonses reading Stipulation/In-Vio
12 of the 191 buildings with a page on this site that have summonses reading Stipulation/In-Vio, a different 12 each week, listed by street. Each count matches the Status column on that building’s page.
- 3213 3 Avenue, Bronx 1 summons reading Stipulation/In-Vio
- 108-20 48 Avenue, Queens 2 summonses reading Stipulation/In-Vio
- 1442 48 Street, Brooklyn 1 summons reading Stipulation/In-Vio
- 2162 Barnes Avenue, Bronx 1 summons reading Stipulation/In-Vio
- 454 East 160 Street, Bronx 2 summonses reading Stipulation/In-Vio
- 941 Hoe Avenue, Bronx 1 summons reading Stipulation/In-Vio
- 152 Marcus Garvey Boulevard, Brooklyn 1 summons reading Stipulation/In-Vio
- 333 Mc Donald Avenue, Brooklyn 1 summons reading Stipulation/In-Vio
- 306 Stockholm Street, Brooklyn 1 summons reading Stipulation/In-Vio
- 2780 University Avenue, Bronx 1 summons reading Stipulation/In-Vio
- 620 West 141 Street, Manhattan 1 summons reading Stipulation/In-Vio
- 564 Wyona Street, Brooklyn 1 summons reading Stipulation/In-Vio
Why is a stipulation the cheapest outcome that carries a penalty?
The ladder above has the figure. We do not offer a theory for it, because a count of summonses cannot tell you which ones were eligible for an agreement in the first place.
How common is a stipulation?
It is the smallest group by a wide margin. The count is on the ladder above, and the share is at the top of the page.
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.