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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           431
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, KAVANAGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. HOOPER, LIFTON, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Health
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to requiring the
          commissioner of health to act when areas of lead poisoning are  desig-

          nated
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 1373 of the  public  health
     2  law, as added by chapter 338 of the laws of 1970, are amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. Whenever the commissioner or his or her representative shall desig-
     5  nate an area of high risk, he [may] or she shall give written notice and
     6  demand,  served as provided [herein] by this section, for the discontin-
     7  uance of a paint condition conducive to lead poisoning in any designated
     8  dwelling in such area within a specified period of time.
     9    3. In the event of failure to comply with a  notice  and  demand,  the

    10  commissioner  or  his or her representative [may] shall conduct a formal
    11  hearing upon due notice in accordance with  the  provisions  of  section
    12  twelve-a  of  this  chapter and on proof of violation of such notice and
    13  demand [may] shall order abatement of a  paint  condition  conducive  to
    14  lead  poisoning  upon  such terms as may be appropriate and may assess a
    15  penalty not to  exceed  two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  for  such
    16  violation.
    17    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02645-01-3