Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Code of Ordinances ch. 12 § 12-23.1

(a) A person who violates any requirement of this code shall be subject to a cumulative civil penalty of $3 per day for each separate violation from the date set for correction in the notice of violation, until the violation is corrected. The penalty may be collected by the Code Enforcement Department by action against the owner or other responsible person, commenced by the Corporation Counsel of the city. (b) The notice of violation shall specify the last date when each violation shall be corrected. The date of correction shall be: (1) Not less than 30 days from the date of mailing of the notice in the case of nonhazardous violations; (2) Fifteen days from the date of mailing of the notice in the case of hazardous violations; and (3) Forthwith in the case of immediately hazardous violations, in which case the notice must be served by personal delivery. The code enforcement department, by regulation, shall classify all violations in accordance with the designated categories. The department may postpone the last day when a violation shall be corrected upon a showing by the owner or other responsible person that he has begun to correct the violation or that full correction of the violation cannot be completed within the time provided because of technical difficulty, inability to obtain necessary materials or labor or inability to gain access to the dwelling unit wherein the violation occurred. (c) When an owner or other responsible person has corrected one or more violations, he shall promptly but not later than two weeks after such correction, report to the Department, in writing, indicating the date when each violation was corrected. It shall be presumed that the violation was corrected on the date so indicated, unless a subsequent inspection by the Department again reveals the existence of the condition giving rise to the earlier notice of violation. Evidence of the condition shall be deemed sufficient to support a finding that the owner or other responsible person failed to correct the violation, unless he explains the existence of the condition to the satisfaction of the Code Enforcement Department. (d) When there are a number of separate instances of a single condition that violates any requirement of this code, such separate instances of such condition shall be treated collectively as a single violation with respect to any one dwelling unit or with respect to the public parts of the dwelling wherein they occur, but nothing contained in this subsection shall limit the number of violations that may be included in any notice of violation or the number of violations for which a penalty under this section may be collected with respect to each dwelling unit or the public parts of the dwelling.