Bill Text: NY A08140 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
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
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8140--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y June 10, 2015 ___________ 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. LBD02248-03-5