Bill Text: NY A03866 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires entities responsible for the provision of vital services to coordinate and work expeditiously to restore service whenever such service is interrupted; includes gas as a vital service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-03 - ordered to third reading cal.102 [A03866 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03866-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3866--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Housing  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring enti-
          ties responsible for the provision of vital services to coordinate and
          work expeditiously to restore service whenever such service is  inter-
          rupted

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 402-e of the public  housing  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  47  of  the laws of 2020, is amended and a new
     3  subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
     4    1. In order to ensure compliance and enforcement of the New York  city
     5  housing authority's duty to provide heat, water, electricity, gas, where
     6  provided and elevator service, the New York city housing authority shall
     7  publish information regarding reported disruptions in such services, the
     8  length  of  such disruptions and the steps taken to restore services and
     9  shall remedy interruptions of gas service in accordance with subdivision
    10  five of this section.  Starting on May first, two thousand  twenty,  the
    11  New  York  city  housing authority shall publish such information on its
    12  website. For six months after the original  publication  date,  the  New
    13  York  city  housing  authority  shall  retain  such  information  on its
    14  website.
    15    5. a. The New York city housing authority shall remedy an interruption
    16  of gas service as expeditiously  as  practicable  by  applying  for  any
    17  permits  necessary to make repairs, as applicable, and coordinating with
    18  agencies and gas corporations on a plan to restore such service.
    19    b. The New York city housing authority shall notify residents affected
    20  by any such interruption of the plan to restore such  service  developed
    21  pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision by:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (i) Communicating such plan to residents affected by such interruption
     2  as  well  as the resident association president or other formally recog-
     3  nized resident leader;
     4    (ii)  Regularly  scheduling  meetings  to update residents affected by
     5  such interruption, as well as  the  resident  association  president  or
     6  other  formally  recognized  resident leader, about the progress made on
     7  such plan; and
     8    (iii) Posting a notice in the lobby of the building affected  by  such
     9  interruption  describing  the  interruption  and  estimating the date on
    10  which service by the gas corporation shall be restored.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.