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Assembly Bill A11557

Signed By Governor

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to tenant representative on city of New York housing authority

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2009-A11557 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8350
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง402, Pub Hous L (as proposed in S.1104/A.4687)

2009-A11557 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2009-A11557 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  11557

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 24, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. V. Lopez) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

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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