Senate Bill S4181

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to demolition costs of residential property

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Cities 1 Committee


  • 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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2021-S4181 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Cities 1
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-301, add §11-357, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S9021
2023-2024: S2592

2021-S4181 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that an owner of a residential building which has been deemed unsafe because of an arson related fire shall be charged the actual cost of demolition.

2021-S4181 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4181 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4181
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 2, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation to demolition costs of residential property
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 11-301 of the administrative code of  the  city  of
 New  York,  as  amended  by  local  law  number 68 for the year 2007, is
 amended to read as follows:
   § 11-301 When taxes, assessments, sewer rents, sewer surcharges [and],
 water rents AND DEMOLITION COSTS to be liens on land assessed. All taxes
 and all assessments and all sewer rents, sewer surcharges  [and],  water
 rents  AND DEMOLITION COSTS, and the interest and charges thereon, which
 may be laid or may have heretofore been laid, upon any real  estate  now
 in the city, shall continue to be, until paid, a lien thereon, and shall
 be  preferred  in payment to all other charges.  The words "water rents"
 whenever they are used in this  chapter  shall  include  uniform  annual
 charges  and  extra  and  miscellaneous charges for the supply of water,
 charges in accordance with meter rates, minimum charges for  the  supply
 of  water  by  meter,  annual service charges and charges for meters and
 their connections and for their setting, repair and maintenance,  penal-
 ties  and  fines  and all lawful charges for the supply of water imposed
 pursuant to the New York city municipal  water  finance  authority  act,
 which is set forth in title two-A of article five of the public authori-
 ties  law.  Charges  for  expense of meters, their connections, setting,
 repair or maintenance shall not be due or become a charge or lien on the
 premises where a water meter shall  be  installed  or  against  which  a
 charge shall be made, until such charge shall have been definitely fixed
 by  the  commissioner  of  environmental protection, and an entry of the
 amount thereof shall have been made with the date of such entry  in  the
 book in which the charges for water supplied by meter against such prem-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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