Requires entities responsible for the provision of vital services to coordinate and work expeditiously to restore service whenever such service is interrupted; includes gas as a vital service.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3866--B
Cal. No. 102
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 8, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. JACKSON, LEE, SIMON -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Housing -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
its place on the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring enti-
ties responsible for the provision of vital services to coordinate and
work expeditiously to restore service whenever such service is inter-
rupted
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 402-e of the
2 public housing law, as amended by chapter 645 of the laws of 2023, is
3 amended and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
4 (a) In order to ensure compliance and enforcement of the New York city
5 housing authority's duty to provide heat, water, electricity, gas, where
6 provided and elevator service, the New York city housing authority shall
7 publish information regarding reported disruptions in such services, the
8 length of such disruptions and the steps taken to restore services and
9 shall remedy interruptions of gas service in accordance with subdivision
10 five of this section. Starting on May first, two thousand twenty, the
11 New York city housing authority shall publish such information on its
12 website. For six months after the original publication date, the New
13 York city housing authority shall retain such information on its
14 website.
15 5. (a) The New York city housing authority shall remedy an inter-
16 ruption of gas service as expeditiously as practicable by applying for
17 any permits necessary to make repairs, as applicable, and coordinating
18 with agencies and gas corporations on a plan to restore such service.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (b) The New York city housing authority shall notify residents
2 affected by any such interruption of the plan to restore such service
3 developed pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision by:
4 (i) Communicating such plan to residents affected by such interruption
5 as well as the resident association president or other formally recog-
6 nized resident leader;
7 (ii) Regularly scheduling meetings to update residents affected by
8 such interruption, as well as the resident association president or
9 other formally recognized resident leader, about the progress made on
10 such plan; and
11 (iii) Posting a notice in the lobby of the building affected by such
12 interruption describing the interruption and estimating the date on
13 which service by the gas corporation shall be restored.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
15 it shall have become a law.
