Bill Text: NY A01459 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1459 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the division of housing and community renewal to publish on its website a database of building-wide major capital improvements installed by landlords in every city of more than one million inhabitants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to housing [A01459 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01459-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1459
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 10, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL, LANCMAN, CASTRO, BOYLAND, COLTON,
         JACOBS, GIBSON, CRESPO, DINOWITZ, MILLMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.
         of  A. GOTTFRIED, MAYERSOHN, ORTIZ, ROBINSON -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Housing
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the division
         of housing and community renewal to establish  a  publicly  accessible
         online database of building-wide major capital improvements
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  260-a
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 260-A. MAJOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT DATABASE. THE COMMISSIONER OF HOUS-
    4  ING  AND  COMMUNITY RENEWAL SHALL PUBLISH ON THE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND
    5  COMMUNITY RENEWAL WEBSITE A  DATABASE  OF  BUILDING-WIDE  MAJOR  CAPITAL
    6  IMPROVEMENTS  INSTALLED  BY ANY LANDLORD IN EVERY CITY WITH A POPULATION
    7  OF MORE THAN ONE MILLION INHABITANTS. SUCH  DATABASE  SHALL  INCLUDE  AN
    8  ENTRY THAT DESCRIBES THE ITEM OR REPAIR, INCLUDING:
    9    1. THE COST;
   10    2. MAKE AND MODEL;
   11    3. WHERE THE ITEM WAS PURCHASED;
   12    4. THE NAME OF COMPANY OR INDIVIDUAL CONDUCTING THE INSTALLATION; AND
   13    5. THE INSTALLATION COST.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01776-01-1