File #: Int 0006-2024    Version: * Name: Tenant education and outreach on residential vacate orders due to damage caused by fires.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 2/8/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to tenant education and outreach on residential vacate orders due to damage caused by fires
Sponsors: Alexa Avilés, Lincoln Restler, Althea V. Stevens, James F. Gennaro, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Crystal Hudson, Sandra Ung, Sandy Nurse, Shaun Abreu, Diana I. Ayala, Tiffany Cabán, Yusef Salaam
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Summary: This law would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, in consultation with the Fire Department and Department of Buildings, to develop procedures to ensure that occupants of multiple dwellings are informed of the process for the issuance of residential vacate orders following fires, including information on their rights of occupancy and responsibilities of landlords under all applicable laws.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 6, 2. Int. No. 6, 3. February 8, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-8-24, 5. Committee Report 2/29/24, 6. Hearing Testimony 2/29/24, 7. Hearing Transcript 2/29/24

Int. No. 6

 

By Council Members Avilés, Restler, Stevens, Gennaro, Gutiérrez, Hudson, Ung, Nurse, Abreu, Ayala, Cabán and Salaam

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to tenant education and outreach on residential vacate orders due to damage caused by fires

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 26-306 to read as follows:

§ 26-306 Tenant education and outreach on residential vacate orders due to damage caused by fires.  The department of housing preservation and development, in consultation with the fire department and department of buildings, shall develop procedures to ensure that occupants of multiple dwellings are informed of the process for the issuance of residential vacate orders following fires, including information on their rights of occupancy and responsibilities of landlords under all applicable laws. Any written materials disseminated by the department pursuant to this section shall be made available in the top ten languages most commonly spoken within the city as determined by the department of city planning.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

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