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
Addition of Plumbing Fixtures or Connections: Add five or less within any 12-month period
New Sprinkler Heads: Installation of up to five new off of an existing domestic water system within any 12-month period
Piping: Installation of new plumbing or fuel gas piping - Not including CATEGORY 2 work
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
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
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
Backflow Preventers: Install or replace primary backflow preventers
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
Direct-vent Gas Dryer (Domestic): Install new single domestic direct-vent gas dryer servicing one or two family dwellings four stories or less
Gas Burners: Replace gas burners [2.8 million Btu/h (821 kW) or less]
Gas-fired Boilers: Replace gas-fired boilers [1 million Btu/h (293 kW) or less]
Piping: Reroute existing plumbing or fuel gas branch piping to serve the same number of existing fixtures and appliances
Relocate Existing Fixtures: Relocate and mount new fixtures on existing roughing, not falling under a minor alteration or ordinary plumbing work
Relocate gas burner/boiler: Relocate gas burner/boiler within the same unaltered fire-rated enclosure, or room
Replace Fixtures: In-kind replacement of plumbing fixtures and gas appliances, not falling under a minor alteration or ordinary plumbing work
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
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.