File #: Int 0623-2011    Version: * Name: Prohibiting persons receiving public funds or subsidies to be placed in buildings with a history of tenant harassment.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 6/29/2011
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting persons receiving public funds or subsidies to be placed in buildings with a history of tenant harassment.
Sponsors: Melissa Mark-Viverito, Daniel Dromm , Letitia James, Brad S. Lander, Rosie Mendez
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2013*Melissa Mark-Viverito City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/29/2011*Melissa Mark-Viverito City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/29/2011*Melissa Mark-Viverito City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 623
 
By Council Members Mark-Viverito, Dromm, James, Lander and Mendez
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting persons receiving public funds or subsidies to be placed in buildings with a history of tenant harassment.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Article 1 of subchapter 1 of chapter 2 of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 27-2005.1 to read as follows:
§27-2005.1 Placement of persons by city agencies in buildings with tenant harassment prohibited.  No person receiving public funds or subsidies shall be placed or referred for residence in a dwelling by any city agency where a court of competent jurisdiction has found a violation in a building containing such dwelling of subdivision d of section 27-2005 of this chapter three or more times within the immediately preceding five years.
§2.  This local law shall take effect immediately upon enactment.
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