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                                   8203
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. SHRESTHA -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring any
   municipality which conducts lead testing to provide certain notices to
   the owner and any tenants of a residence upon a positive test

   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 139-f to read as follows:
   § 139-F. NOTICE TO OWNERS AND TENANTS  OF  RESIDENCES  WHERE  LEAD  IS
 PRESENT.  1.  ANY  MUNICIPALITY  OR  POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF WHICH
 CONDUCTS TESTS FOR THE PRESENCE OF LEAD  SHALL  PROVIDE  NOTICE  TO  THE
 OWNER  AND  ANY  TENANTS OF A RESIDENCE IF SUCH RESIDENCE TESTS POSITIVE
 FOR LEAD WITHIN FIVE DAYS OF SUCH POSITIVE FINDING.   SUCH NOTICE  SHALL
 INCLUDE:
   (A)  THE REQUIRED RESPONSE FOR REMEDIATION, INCLUDING DATES OF REMEDI-
 ATION, AND  WHERE  APPLICABLE,  COURT  APPEARANCES,  HEARINGS  OR  OTHER
 ACTIONS MANDATED BY THE MUNICIPALITY;
   (B) A LIST OF LEAD ABATEMENT PROGRAMS, GRANTS AND/OR OTHER RESOURCES;
   (C)  WHERE APPLICABLE, THE POTENTIAL OUTCOMES IF THE PROPERTY OWNER OF
 SUCH DWELLING FAILS TO MEET THE REQUIRED REMEDIATION  INCLUDING  ACTIONS
 TAKEN BY THE MUNICIPALITY;
   (D) INFORMATION REGARDING TENANTS' RIGHTS AND POSSIBLE NEXT STEPS; AND
   (E)  IF A NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS COMMONLY SPOKEN IN THE MUNICIPALITY,
 A TRANSLATION OF SUCH NOTICE IN SUCH LANGUAGE SHALL BE PROVIDED.
   2. TENANTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS SHALL BE PROVIDED NOTICE AT  LEAST  TEN
 DAYS  PRIOR  TO  CODE  ENFORCEMENT  LEAD  TESTING IN A DWELLING. MUNICI-
 PALITIES SHALL DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY HAVE SUCCESSFULLY  CONVEYED  NOTICE
 TO  TENANTS  BY  ACKNOWLEDGEMENT  OF  RECEIPT.  IN THE EVENT OF A FAILED
 ATTEMPT TO NOTIFY TENANTS, THE MUNICIPALITY SHALL ESTABLISH A POLICY FOR
 NOTIFYING TENANTS.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08689-03-5
              

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   3. MUNICIPALITIES SHALL NOTIFY TENANTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS OF A  PROP-
 ERTY  IF  LEAD  LEVELS  MAY RENDER SUCH PROPERTY UNINHABITABLE AND/OR IF
 ALLOWING THE LEAD LEVELS TO MAINTAIN UNABATED MAY RENDER  SUCH  PROPERTY
 UNINHABITABLE.  SUCH  NOTIFICATION  SHALL  INCLUDE  TENANTS AND PROPERTY
 OWNERS  OF TENANTS' RIGHTS PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED FORTY-THREE-B
 OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW.  MUNICIPALITIES  SHALL  NOTIFY  TENANTS  AND
 PROPERTY  OWNERS  OF ANY MUNICIPAL LAWS AND/OR POLICIES THAT MAY LEAD TO
 THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES BEING NOTIFIED OF A POSI-
 TIVE IN-HOME LEAD TEST. WHERE SUCH POLICIES ARE IN PLACE, MUNICIPALITIES
 SHALL NOTIFY THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES AND  TENANTS
 THAT  CHILDREN  CANNOT  BE  REMOVED  FROM PARENTS FOR FAILING TO PROVIDE
 ADEQUATE HOUSING PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE THOUSAND TWELVE OF  THE  FAMILY
 COURT ACT.
   4. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO ALL TESTING CONDUCTED
 PURSUANT  TO SECTION THIRTEEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH
 LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.