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Assembly Bill A9160

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes municipalities to establish an emergency repair pilot program

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2023-A9160 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8500
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §99-aa, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9504, S8146
2025-2026: A5641, S1838

2023-A9160 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-A9160 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9160
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 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 such provisions upon expiration there-
   of
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
 section 99-aa to read as follows:
   § 99-AA.  EMERGENCY REPAIR PILOT PROGRAM.  SUBJECT  TO  APPROPRIATION,
 THE SECRETARY OF STATE, WITH ASSISTANCE FROM THE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND
 COMMUNITY  RENEWAL,  SHALL  ESTABLISH A PILOT PROGRAM WITH PARTICIPATING
 MUNICIPALITIES FOR AN EMERGENCY REPAIR PROGRAM. THE SECRETARY  OF  STATE
 SHALL  ONLY  ALLOW MUNICIPALITIES DESIGNATED AS A CITY TO PARTICIPATE IN
 SUCH PILOT PROGRAM. THE EMERGENCY REPAIR PROGRAM SHALL REQUIRE A MUNICI-
 PALITY THAT HAS ELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM TO ENACT  A  LOCAL
 LAW  TO  ENABLE  THE  MUNICIPALITY  TO REPAIR IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS CODE
 VIOLATIONS IN BUILDINGS WHERE THE OWNER HAS NOT UNDERTAKEN SUCH  REPAIRS
 IN  A  REASONABLE  TIME.  THE MUNICIPALITY SHALL BILL THE OWNER FOR SUCH
 REPAIR COSTS.  THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE DIVISION
 OF HOUSING AND  COMMUNITY  RENEWAL,  SHALL,  AS  APPROPRIATION  PERMITS,
 PROVIDE  TECHNICAL  ASSISTANCE TO PARTICIPATING MUNICIPALITIES TO ENSURE
 SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LOCAL  LAW  REQUIRED  PURSUANT  TO  THE
 PILOT  PROGRAM.    ADDITIONALLY, THE SECRETARY OF STATE, WITH ASSISTANCE
 FROM THE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND  COMMUNITY  RENEWAL,  SHALL  PREPARE  A
 MODEL  LOCAL  LAW THAT MUNICIPALITIES MAY ADOPT TO SATISFY THE LOCAL LAW
 REQUIREMENT OF THE PILOT PROGRAM. SUCH LOCAL LAW SHALL BE  PUBLISHED  ON
 THE  WEBSITES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND THE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND
 COMMUNITY RENEWAL.  FURTHERMORE, THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN  CONJUNCTION
 WITH  THE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL, SHALL FILE A REPORT
 ANNUALLY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF  THE  EMERGENCY  REPAIR  PILOT
 PROGRAM WITH THE LEGISLATURE AND THE GOVERNOR. SUCH REPORT SHALL INCLUDE
 RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO WHETHER THE PROGRAM SHALL BE CONTINUED OR MODIFIED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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