NY City Health Department To Slash Fines To Restaurants By $4.1M In New Budget Year

The city Health Department plans to slash fines doled out to restaurants by $4.1 million in the new budget year, officials told a City Council hearing Tuesday.

They projected collecting $30 million for health code violations in the year that starts July 1 – down from $34.1 million this year.

The decrease reflects, in part, a new approach by Mayor de Blasio toward regulating restaurants and other small businesses. During the mayoral race, de Blasio complained that the city was overzealous in fining those businesses to raise revenue.

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