Authorizes the NYC housing authority to establish volunteer tenant patrol forces to provide security services for the benefit of the residents; directs compensation for such force members who perform a minimum of 500 hours service in the amount of $500 or a ten percent abatement against rent as determined by the option of the tenant; the authority shall establish powers and duties for such patrol forces and shall set methods for service verification and payment of compensation.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5560
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. V. LOPEZ, SEMINERIO, PHEFFER, KAVANAGH -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. CLARK, MAYERSOHN -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to providing for the
establishment of volunteer tenant patrols to perform additional secu-
rity duties within the New York city housing authority
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-b to read as follows:
3 § 402-b. Volunteer tenant patrols within the New York city housing
4 authority. 1. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained
5 in this chapter, or any general, special or local law, the New York city
6 housing authority shall have the power in its discretion to establish a
7 volunteer tenant patrol force. Such tenant patrol force shall have such
8 power and duties as prescribed by the authority in accordance with the
9 provisions of this section.
10 2. The authority shall:
11 (a) provide for a method of determining and redetermining eligibility
12 for tenant participation in such patrol force;
13 (b) seek meaningful participation by the maximum number of qualified
14 tenants in such patrol force; and
15 (c) establish procedures for compensation of members of such patrol
16 force whereby tenants performing a minimum of five hundred hours service
17 shall receive five hundred dollars per annum or an abatement against
18 rent to the extent of ten percent thereof, whichever is greater, as
19 determined at the option of the individual tenant. The authority shall
20 determine the method of service verification and compensation payment.
21 3. The cost of establishing and maintaining such patrol force shall be
22 borne entirely by the authority.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
24 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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