File #: Int 1274-2016    Version: * Name: Reporting on obsolete public housing dwelling units and components and systems of public housing buildings.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Public Housing
On agenda: 9/14/2016
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on obsolete public housing dwelling units and components and systems of public housing buildings
Sponsors: Ritchie J. Torres, The Public Advocate (Ms. James), Ben Kallos, Donovan J. Richards, Margaret S. Chin, Ydanis A. Rodriguez
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: This bill would require the New York City Housing Authority (“NYCHA”) to make publicly available online and submit to the Council an annual report on public housing dwelling units and components and systems of public housing buildings that are, in the determination of NYCHA, obsolete or soon to be obsolete.
Indexes: Oversight, Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1274, 2. September 14, 2016 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files
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12/31/2017*Ritchie J. Torres City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/14/2016*Ritchie J. Torres City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/14/2016*Ritchie J. Torres City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1274

 

By Council Members Torres, the Public Advocate (Ms. James), Kallos, Richards, Chin and Rodriguez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on obsolete public housing dwelling units and components and systems of public housing buildings

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 3 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subchapter 4 to read as follows:

SUBCHAPTER 4

REPORTS RELATED TO PUBLIC HOUSING

§ 3-140 General.

§ 3-141 Report on obsolete public housing dwelling units and components and systems of public housing buildings.

 

§ 3-140 General. As used in this subchapter:

Dwelling unit. The term “dwelling unit” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the housing maintenance code.

Public housing. The term “public housing” has the meaning ascribed to such term in section 1437a of title 42 of the United States code.

§ 3-141 Report on obsolete public housing dwelling units and components and systems of public housing buildings. a. No later than 60 days after the end of each calendar year, beginning with the first calendar year that commences after the effective date of the local law that added this section, the New York city housing authority shall make publicly available online and submit to the council a report on public housing dwelling units and components and systems of public housing buildings that are, in the determination of such authority, obsolete or soon to be obsolete. Such report shall include, at a minimum, the following information, disaggregated by public housing development, borough and council district:

1. A description of the process and criteria used by such authority to determine whether a public housing dwelling unit or component or system of a public housing building is obsolete;

2. A list of public housing dwelling units and components and systems of public housing buildings considered obsolete by such authority; and

3. A list of public housing dwelling units and components and systems of public housing buildings that will likely, in the opinion of such authority, be obsolete within:

(a) One year of the reporting date;

(b) Five years of the reporting date;

(c) Ten years of the reporting date; and

(d) 15 years of the reporting date.

b. Such authority shall make such information publicly available online in a non-proprietary format that permits automated processing.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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