Bill Text: NY A09161 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to certificates of occupancy for unmapped streets in the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-16 - substituted by s6388a [A09161 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09161-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9161
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Cities
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the general city law, in relation to certificates of
          occupancy for unmapped streets in the city of New York
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 36 of the general city law, as
     2  added by a chapter of the laws of 2015, amending the  general  city  law
     3  relating  to  certificates of occupancy for unmapped streets in the city
     4  of New York,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  A.7487  and
     5  S.3472-A, is amended to read as follows:
     6    3.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of law, rule or regulation to the
     7  contrary, a certificate of occupancy for a one or two family residential
     8  dwelling which is otherwise in compliance with all applicable laws shall
     9  be issued by the department of buildings of the city of New York for any
    10  building abutting an unmapped street without a review by  the  board  of
    11  standards  and appeals in the following circumstances: (a) if the corpo-
    12  ration counsel of the city of New York has issued an opinion determining
    13  that the public way has been open and in use to the public for a minimum
    14  of ten years and has been attested to by documents satisfactory  to  the
    15  municipality,  that the unmapped street abutting such building or struc-
    16  ture shall have been  suitably  improved  to  the  satisfaction  of  the
    17  department  of transportation of the city of New York in accordance with
    18  standards and specifications approved by such department as adequate  in
    19  respect to the public health, safety and general welfare for the special
    20  circumstances  of the particular unmapped street, and that such building
    21  or structure is equipped with an automatic fire sprinkler, or (b) if the
    22  department of buildings of the city of New York determines that  [other]
    23  such  one  or  two family residential [dwellings which have] dwelling is
    24  located within the same block and fronting on the same  unmapped  street
    25  in  question as another building or structure that successfully appealed
    26  to the board of  standards  and  appeals  and  [have]  has  been  issued
    27  [certificates]  a  certificate of occupancy [are located within the same
    28  block where such buildings or structures also have frontage that direct-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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