Bill Text: NY S02775 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing an on site supervisor or maintenance supervisor at city of New York housing authority facilities, including janitorial services to maintain workable locks on doors and repeals provisions relating to exemption to the housing authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S02775 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02775-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2775
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, SEPULVEDA -- 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 and the  administrative  code  of
          the  city  of  New York, in relation to establishing an on site super-
          intendent or maintenance  supervisor  at  city  of  New  York  Housing
          Authority  facilities, including janitorial services to maintain work-
          able locks on doors; and to repeal section 27-2056 of the  administra-
          tive  code  of  the city of New York, relating to the exemption to the
          housing authority under such code
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5-a of section 402 of the public housing law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows:
     3    g.  Notwithstanding  any  provisions to the contrary contained in this
     4  chapter, or any general, special or local law,  the  city  of  New  York
     5  housing  authority  shall have the power to provide and maintain on site
     6  superintendents and maintenance supervisors at  all  city  of  New  York
     7  housing  authority  facilities.  Such site superintendent or maintenance
     8  supervisor shall have the duty, in  and  about  housing  facilities,  to
     9  preserve  the  cleanliness  and  functionality of the facility and other
    10  requirements the authority deems necessary. Appointments to site  super-
    11  intendent  or  maintenance  supervisor  shall be made in accordance with
    12  applicable provisions of the civil service law and only persons who have
    13  never been convicted of a felony, and who are  citizens  of  the  United
    14  States shall be appointed site superintendent or maintenance supervisor.
    15    §  2. Subdivision (a) of section 27-2052 of the administrative code of
    16  the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
    17    (a) Janitorial services means: Cleaning and maintenance, including the
    18  making of minor repairs, such as workable locks on doors; the furnishing
    19  of heat and hot water, where supplied from a central source; the removal
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  of garbage, refuse, ashes and wastes from the premises; and the  removal
     2  of snow, ice, dirt and other matter from the sidewalk and gutter.
     3    §  3.  Section  27-2053  of the administrative code of the city of New
     4  York is amended by adding a new subdivision d to read as follows:
     5    d. Janitors in city of New York  housing  authority  facilities  shall
     6  take  substantial  actual  or  material  steps towards remedying heating
     7  issues and broken locks on doors within forty-eight hours  of  receiving
     8  notice of such issue.
     9    §  4.  Section  27-2056  of the administrative code of the city of New
    10  York is REPEALED.
    11    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.