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Assembly Bill A7811

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires the city of New York to mitigate property damage caused by environmental issues which are caused by acts or omissions of such municipality

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2017-A7811 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1671
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
New York City
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S4035
2015-2016: S5412
2019-2020: A3938, S2758
2021-2022: A2405, S3154
2023-2024: A2547, S1084
2025-2026: A3079, S2200

2017-A7811 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the city of New York to mitigate property damage caused by environmental issues which are caused by acts or omissions of such municipality.

2017-A7811 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7811
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 16, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Cities
 
 AN ACT relating to requiring the city of New York  to  mitigate  certain
   property  damage  caused  by  environmental issues which are caused by
   acts or omissions of such municipality

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  In  the  city  of New York, where the municipality or its
 departments by acts of omission or commission either creates or  greatly
 contributes  to  an environmental crisis which impacts a sizable segment
 of its citizens, creating property  damage  and  threatening  residents'
 health,  and  where  such municipality or its departments either owns or
 controls the infrastructure that can substantially mitigate  this  envi-
 ronmental  issue  and bring relief to those residents, then such munici-
 pality shall be required and directed to utilize that infrastructure  to
 provide  a  clear, objective and quantifiable plan to obtain relief in a
 timely manner.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00330-01-7

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