Bill Text: NY S00220 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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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 6-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3866B [S00220 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S00220-Introduced.html
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 6-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3866B [S00220 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S00220-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 220 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development 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 and 6 elevator service, the New York city housing authority shall publish 7 information regarding reported disruptions in such services, the length 8 of such disruptions and the steps taken to restore services. Starting on 9 May first, two thousand twenty, the New York city housing authority 10 shall publish such information on its website. For six months after the 11 original publication date, the New York city housing authority shall 12 retain such information on its website. 13 5. a. The department of housing preservation and development, or any 14 agency of the city of New York or state agency charged with the 15 inspection of conditions, required to remedy conditions, or with general 16 jurisdiction to remedy conditions, and any utility corporation in owner- 17 ship or control of the meters, pipes, fittings, wires and other appara- 18 tus associated with the establishment of service to a residence, shall 19 ensure that all interruptions of vital services set forth in subdivision 20 one of this section be remedied as expeditiously as practicable. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01991-01-3S. 220 2 1 b. For purposes of this subdivision, "expeditiously as practicable" 2 shall mean a requirement that each responsible entity described in para- 3 graph a of this subdivision take all available actions to restore 4 service, including, but not limited to: 5 (i) Applying for emergency repair permits; 6 (ii) Coordinating with all relevant agencies and corporations on a 7 plan of restoration; 8 (iii) Communicating said restoration plan to all affected residents; 9 and 10 (iv) Mitigating the effects of service interruption through monetary 11 compensation or rebate. 12 c. Any utility corporation in ownership or control of the meters, 13 pipes, fittings, wires and other apparatus associated with the estab- 14 lishment of service to a residence who cannot demonstrate a good faith 15 effort to comply with the provisions of this subdivision shall be liable 16 for a penalty of two hundred fifty dollars for each affected occupied 17 unit for each day during which service remains interrupted. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
