Bill Text: NY A08140 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the NYC housing authority to provide a notice of opportunity to meet to discuss possible termination of tenancy when an occupant is aged 62 years or older.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-29 - signed chap.340 [A08140 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08140-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8140--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 10, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         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 the New
         York  city housing authority to provide elderly tenants with notice of
         opportunity to meet to discuss possible termination of tenancy
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
    2  402-c to read as follows:
    3    S 402-C. NOTICE OF PRE-TERMINATION MEETING. 1. WHEN THE NEW YORK  CITY
    4  HOUSING  AUTHORITY MAILS NOTICE OF A PRE-TERMINATION MEETING TO A HOUSE-
    5  HOLD HAVING AN AUTHORIZED OCCUPANT OVER THE AGE OF SIXTY-TWO YEARS, SUCH
    6  AUTHORITY SHALL INCLUDE WITH SUCH NOTICE A NOTIFICATION THAT THE  TENANT
    7  LESSEE  HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH THE PROPERTY MANAGER, OR HIS OR
    8  HER DESIGNEE, TO DISCUSS  THE  POSSIBLE  TERMINATION  OF  TENANCY.  SUCH
    9  NOTICE SHALL BE MAILED TO SUCH HOUSEHOLDS BY CERTIFIED MAIL.
   10    2.  THE  PROPERTY  MANAGER, OR HIS OR HER DESIGNEE, SHALL SCHEDULE THE
   11  PRE-TERMINATION MEETING NO MORE THAN SEVEN DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF  MAIL-
   12  ING  OF  THE  NOTICE OF PRE-TERMINATION MEETING; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
   13  THE MEETING MAY OCCUR UP TO FOURTEEN DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF  MAILING  IF
   14  SO  REQUESTED  BY  A TENANT LESSEE. SUCH PRE-TERMINATION NOTICE SHALL BE
   15  MAILED AT LEAST FORTY-FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE DATE FIXED FOR A  TERMINATION
   16  OF  TENANCY  HEARING  BEFORE A HEARING OFFICER, EXCEPT THAT THE NEW YORK
   17  CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY MAY GIVE NOT LESS THAN FIFTEEN DAYS NOTICE BEFORE
   18  THE DATE FIXED FOR A TERMINATION OF TENANCY  HEARING  BEFORE  A  HEARING
   19  OFFICER IF THE CHARGES ARE BASED ON NON-DESIRABILITY.
   20    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   21  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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