File #: Int 0006-2024    Version: Name: Tenant education and outreach on residential vacate orders due to damage caused by fires.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 2/8/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to tenant education and outreach on residential vacate orders due to damage caused by fires
Sponsors: Alexa Avilés, Lincoln Restler, Althea V. Stevens, James F. Gennaro, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Crystal Hudson, Sandra Ung, Sandy Nurse, Shaun Abreu, Diana I. Ayala, Tiffany Cabán, Yusef Salaam, Nantasha M. Williams, Pierina Ana Sanchez
Council Member Sponsors: 14
Summary: This law would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (“HPD”), in consultation with the Fire Department and Department of Buildings, to develop procedures to ensure that occupants of multiple dwellings are informed of the process for the issuance of residential vacate orders following fires, including information on their rights of occupancy and responsibilities of landlords, what may constitute harassment, and the process for rescinding vacate orders. HPD would also be required to designate a person on site to provide information to tenants in the designated citywide languages.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 6-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 6, 3. Int. No. 6, 4. February 8, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-8-24, 6. Committee Report 2/29/24, 7. Hearing Testimony 2/29/24, 8. Hearing Transcript 2/29/24, 9. Proposed Int. No. 6-A - 5/30/24, 10. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 8, 2024

Proposed Int. No. 6-A

 

By Council Members Avilés, Restler, Stevens, Gennaro, Gutiérrez, Hudson, Ung, Nurse, Abreu, Ayala, Cabán, Salaam, Williams and Sanchez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to tenant education and outreach on residential vacate orders due to damage caused by fires

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 2 of title 26 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 26-306 to read as follows:

§ 26-306 Tenant education and outreach on residential vacate orders due to damage caused by fires. a. The department of housing preservation and development, in consultation with the fire department and department of buildings, shall develop procedures to notify tenants of dwelling units in multiple dwellings regarding the issuance of residential vacate orders by the department of housing preservation and development following a fire. Such procedures shall include, but need not be limited to, posting a notice at the site about how tenants can obtain relevant information and materials in each of the designated citywide languages, as defined in section 23-1101, including:

1. The housing information guide required pursuant to section 26-1102;

2. Information on what actions may constitute harassment, as defined in paragraph 48 of subdivision a of section 27-2004, in relation to the issuance of residential vacate orders;

3. Information on the process for rescinding vacate orders issued by the department of housing preservation and development; and

4. Information on where tenants can find additional resources, including those that are available through the website of the department of housing preservation and development.

b. The department of housing preservation and development shall designate a person on site to distribute copies of such notice to any tenants seeking additional information regarding the issuance of residential vacate orders by the department of housing preservation and development. Such copies shall be made available in each of the designated citywide languages, as defined in section 23-1101, either on site or through technology provided by the onsite designee, such as a quick response code or a near field communication tag, by which an individual with a properly equipped mobile device may directly access such notice.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

Session #13

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LS #10307

5/29/24 8:40 PM

 

Session #12

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LS #10307

10/19/22