Requires the New York city housing authority to repair certain conditions within thirty days of receipt of a written notice requesting such repairs; requires NYCHA to convert from gas to electric appliances when repairing or replacing any such appliances.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A4586
SPONSOR: Fall TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring the New
York city housing authority to address certain repairs within thirty
days after receipt of a written notice to management
PURPOSE:
increases the monetary jurisdiction of the justice courts from $3,000 to
$15,000.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This legislation amends language in various sections of the Uniform
Justice Court Act to reflect increasing the monetary jurisdiction of
justice courts from $3,000 to $15,000.
JUSTIFICATION:
The monetary jurisdiction for justice courts hasn't increased in over
forty years and litigants for suits over $3,000 must sue in Supreme
Court. The Supreme Court is the same court where multi-million dollar
cases are brought, thus, the costs of litigation (depositions, filing
fees, etc.) will exceed the total amount of the damages sought in these
relatively small cases. By increasing the jurisdictional limits for
justice courts to $15,000, small claim cases can be resolved quickly and
efficiently in the local courts, instead of the Supreme Court.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
02/09/23 referred to housing
01/03/24 referred to housing
2019-20: A.7421
2016: A.10194
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4586
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Housing
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring the New
York city housing authority to address certain repairs within thirty
days after receipt of a written notice to management
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
2 402-h to read as follows:
3 § 402-h. Repairs; written notice. 1. For the purposes of this section,
4 the following terms shall have the following meanings:
5 (a) "Authority" shall mean the New York city housing authority.
6 (b) "Department" shall mean the New York city department of housing
7 preservation and development.
8 2. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the
9 authority shall repair or cause to be repaired any conditions that it
10 would otherwise have a duty to repair under law if it were a private
11 landlord, within thirty days of receipt by the property manager of writ-
12 ten notice of such conditions in need of repairs. Such written notice
13 shall be provided to the property manager in a manner consistent with
14 rules and regulations promulgated for such purpose by the authority in
15 conjunction with the department.
16 3. A tenant or an authorized member of a tenant household of a unit
17 owned or operated by the authority may report a violation of subdivision
18 two of this section by the authority to the department. Upon receipt of
19 a report of a violation of subdivision two of this section by the
20 authority, the department shall issue to the authority a mandatory order
21 to repair the conditions upon which such violation is predicated. After
22 fifteen days of the issuance of such mandatory order to repair, the
23 department shall inspect such reported violation.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 4. A tenant of a unit subject to the provisions of this section may
2 choose to repair a condition that the authority otherwise has a duty to
3 repair under law. Before beginning such repair, such tenant shall notify
4 the property manager of the project wherein such tenant resides of such
5 tenant's intent to repair such conditions. Such tenant shall keep an
6 accurate record of expenses incurred by repairing such conditions and
7 shall either: (a) be entitled to payment from the authority of such
8 amount, within fifteen days of notice to the authority of such expenses
9 incurred, or (b) be entitled to deduct such amount from future rent owed
10 to the authority.
11 5. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any condition in
12 need of repair caused by a tenant of a unit covered by this section, or
13 by a person or persons under such tenant's direction or control.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
16 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
17 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
18 on or before such effective date.
