Limited Plumbing Alterations - LAA - Application - NYC - New York City

An alteration to a plumbing or fuel gas piping system that is limited in scope which a plumbing contractor can perform. These alterations fall into one of the following categories:

Category – 1

There is a $35,000 cost limitation in any 12 month period and only the following work can be done:

Category – 1 $35,000 cost limitation per building including appliance and labor in any 12 month period

1. Addition of Plumbing Fixtures or Connections: Add five or less within any 12-month period

2. New Sprinkler Heads: Installation of up to five new off of an existing domestic water system within any 12-month period

3. Piping: Installation of new plumbing or fuel gas piping - Not including CATEGORY 2 work

4. Rearrange Sprinkler Heads: Rearrange not more than 20 sprinkler heads in areas classified in light hazard occupancy, in restaurant service areas, or in mercantile areas

5. Standpipe Piping and Parts: In-kind replacement of piping and parts required for the operation of a standpipe provided that a sprinkler is not connected

6. Standpipe System Parts: Replacement of parts required for the operation of a standpipe system that is not a combined standpipe system

Category – 2

No cost and time period limitation, but only the following work can be done:

Category – 2 No cost limitation, must include all appliance and labor costs

1. Backflow Preventers: Install or replace primary backflow preventers

2. Direct-vent Appliances: In-kind replacement with direct-vent gas-fired boilers, hot water heaters, and furnaces servicing one or two family dwellings, four stories or less

3. Direct-vent Gas Dryer (Domestic): Install new single domestic direct-vent gas dryer servicing one or two family dwellings four stories or less

4. Gas Burners: Replace gas burners [2.8 million Btu/h (821 kW) or less]

5. Gas-fired Boilers: Replace gas-fired boilers [1 million Btu/h (293 kW) or less]

6. Piping: Reroute existing plumbing or fuel gas branch piping to serve the same number of existing fixtures and appliances

7. Relocate Existing Fixtures: Relocate and mount new fixtures on existing roughing, not falling under a minor alteration or ordinary plumbing work

8. Relocate gas burner/boiler: Relocate gas burner/boiler within the same unaltered fire-rated enclosure, or room

9. Replace Fixtures: In-kind replacement of plumbing fixtures and gas appliances, not falling under a minor alteration or ordinary plumbing work

10. Sprinkler Heads: Replace up to thirty existing sprinkler heads, off of a domestic water system, and their orifice size, type and deflector must remain the same

11. Temporary Gas-fired Boiler: Placement of a registered gas fired temporary boiler at a site for emergency heat

For use only with LAA Applications submitted on or after December 31, 2014.

• Category 1 LAA Fee Chart for One- and Two Family Homes

• Category 2 LAA Fee Chart for 1, 2, 3 Family Fees

Only one category and one work type can be filed per limited alteration application.