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Senate Bill S10355

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept

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2025-S10355 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §50-g, Gen Muni L

2025-S10355 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept from five years to ten years.

2025-S10355 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10355
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to expanding  the
   amount of time a notice of defect must be kept
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 50-g of the general municipal law,
 as added by chapter 783 of the laws  of  1957,  is  amended  to  add  as
 follows:
   2.  Where  the statute, charter or local law requires that the written
 notice be given to a specified city officer or employee the record shall
 be made and kept by the person so specified. Where the statute,  charter
 or local law requires that the written notice be given to any of several
 specified city officers or employees, or omits to specify the officer or
 employee  to whom the written notice shall be given, the record shall be
 made and kept by an officer or employee designated for that  purpose  by
 the  governing  body of the city. In the absence of such designation the
 record shall be made and kept by the commissioner of public works of the
 city or, if there be no officer of that title, by an officer  exercising
 corresponding duties. The record of notices of defects shall be a public
 record.  The  record  of  each notice shall be preserved for a period of
 [five] TEN years after the date it is received.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15601-01-6

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