Senate Bill S8350

Signed By Governor
2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to tenant representative on city of New York housing authority

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S8350 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A11557
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง402, Pub Hous L (as proposed in S.1104/A.4687)

2009-S8350 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to tenant representation on the city of New York housing authority.

2009-S8350 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S8350 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8350

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 25, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  DILAN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to tenant  represen-
  tatives on the New York city housing authority

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 402 of the  public  housing
law,  as  amended  by a chapter of the laws of 2010, amending the public
housing law relating to modifying the composition of the  membership  of
the  New  York  city  housing  authority  to specifically include tenant
representatives, as proposed in legislative  bills  numbers  S.1104  and
A.4687, are amended to read as follows:
  3. On and after May first, nineteen hundred fifty-eight, the authority
shall consist of three members appointed by the mayor, one of whom shall
be  designated  by the mayor as chairman removable at his pleasure.  The
members other than the chairman first appointed for terms commencing  on
May first, nineteen hundred fifty-eight, shall be appointed for terms of
three  and  five  years,  respectively. Thereafter the term of office of
each member other than the chairman shall be  five  years.    The  mayor
shall file with the commissioner of housing a certificate of appointment
of  the  chairman and of each member. Any member other than the chairman
may be removed by the mayor for cause after a public hearing.    On  and
after  July  first  in  the  year next succeeding the year in which this
sentence shall take effect, the authority shall  consist  of  [two]  ONE
additional  [members]  MEMBER  who  shall  be appointed by the mayor AND
SHALL BE REMOVABLE AT HIS OR HER PLEASURE.  [Each such additional]  SUCH
ADDITIONAL member must be eighteen years of age or older and be [a resi-
dent  of a public housing project of the authority. The initial terms of
such additional members shall be as follows: one member shall serve  for
a  term  of  two  years  and  one member shall serve for a term of three
years, thereafter such additional members shall serve for a  three  year
term  of  office]  THE  TENANT  OF RECORD OR AN AUTHORIZED MEMBER OF THE
TENANT HOUSEHOLD, IN GOOD STANDING, RESIDING IN ONE OF THE THREE HUNDRED
THIRTY-FIVE FEDERAL PROJECTS OWNED OR OPERATED  BY  THE  AUTHORITY.    A

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

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