Gallahan, Brown E, Smullen, Giglio, Novakhov, McDonough, Palmesano, Colton
MLTSPNSR
Add §21-124.2, NYC Ad Cd
Requires that no homeless shelter shall be located within five hundred feet of a transit facility or within a building that has a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized dwelling unit.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6909--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 18, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CHANG, GALLAHAN, E. BROWN, SMULLEN, GIGLIO,
NOVAKHOV, McDONOUGH, PALMESANO, COLTON -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Cities -- recommitted to the Committee on Cities in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to the placement of homeless shelters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
2 by adding a new section 21-124.2 to read as follows:
3 § 21-124.2 Placement of homeless shelters. a. No homeless shelter
4 shall be established within five hundred feet of any transit facility
5 nor within a building that has a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized
6 dwelling unit.
7 b. For the purposes of this section, the term "transit facility" shall
8 mean a rapid transit railroad, omnibus line or any other facility or any
9 railroad in the city used for local service in the transportation of
10 passengers as common carriers for hire or in the transportation of the
11 United States mail or personal property, and any portion thereof and the
12 rights, leaseholds or other interests therein, together with the devices
13 and appurtenances, facilities and equipment thereof and power plants and
14 other instrumentalities used or useful therefor or in connection there-
15 with.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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