Bill Text: NY S05207 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes municipalities to establish an emergency repair pilot program to enable municipalities to repair immediately hazardous code violations in buildings where the owner has not undertaken such repairs in a reasonable time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2023-12-22 - VETOED MEMO.138 [S05207 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05207-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5207--A
            Cal. No. 842

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. SKOUFIS, BRESLIN, HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Finance
          -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
          report,  ordered  to  a  third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  authorizing
          certain municipalities to establish an emergency repair pilot program;
          and  providing  for  the  repeal  of  certain  provisions of the state
          finance law upon expiration thereof

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 99-z to read as follows:
     3    § 99-z. Emergency repair pilot program. Subject to appropriation,  the
     4  secretary  of  state,  with  assistance from the division of housing and
     5  community renewal, shall establish a pilot  program  with  participating
     6  municipalities  for  an emergency repair program. The secretary of state
     7  shall only allow municipalities designated as a city to  participate  in
     8  such pilot program. The emergency repair program shall require a munici-
     9  pality  that  has elected to participate in the program to enact a local
    10  law to enable the municipality  to  repair  immediately  hazardous  code
    11  violations  in buildings where the owner has not undertaken such repairs
    12  in a reasonable time. The municipality shall bill  the  owner  for  such
    13  repair costs.  The department of state, in conjunction with the division
    14  of  housing  and  community  renewal,  shall,  as appropriation permits,
    15  provide technical assistance to participating municipalities  to  ensure
    16  successful  implementation  of  the  local  law required pursuant to the
    17  pilot program.  Additionally, the secretary of  state,  with  assistance
    18  from  the  division  of  housing  and community renewal, shall prepare a
    19  model local law that municipalities may adopt to satisfy the  local  law
    20  requirement  of  the pilot program. Such local law shall be published on

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  the websites of the department of state and the division of housing  and
     2  community  renewal.  Furthermore, the secretary of state, in conjunction
     3  with the division of housing and community renewal, shall file a  report
     4  annually  to  evaluate  the  effectiveness of the emergency repair pilot
     5  program with the legislature and the governor. Such report shall include
     6  recommendations as to whether the program shall be continued or modified
     7  in any way and the reasons therefor.  Nothing in this section  shall  be
     8  applied  to  a  residential  dwelling  that  is owner-occupied or is the
     9  primary residence of a homeowner. The secretary of state  shall  promul-
    10  gate rules and regulations to implement the provisions  of this section.
    11    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    12  have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed May 1, 2027.