STATE OF NEW YORK
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4786
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 12, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
Community Development
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to the New York city
housing authority and mold remediation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 402 of the public housing law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
3 11. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, upon
4 the report by any tenant of mold in a dwelling unit in any project oper-
5 ated by the authority, the authority shall have fifteen days to remedi-
6 ate said mold. The authority shall have sixty days from the remediation
7 to inspect the dwelling unit to ensure mold removal.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09732-01-1
