Bill Text: NY A07371 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to regulations authorizing the issuance of financial penalties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to housing [A07371 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A07371-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7371 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y May 3, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to regulations authorizing the issuance of financial penalties 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 2 229 to read as follows: 3 S 229. REGULATIONS. NO AUTHORITY, OFFICE OR OTHER ENTITY OPERATING 4 PURSUANT TO THIS CHAPTER SHALL ENACT ANY NEW REGULATION AUTHORIZING THE 5 ISSUANCE OF A FINANCIAL PENALTY UNLESS: 6 (A) ALL AFFECTED RESIDENTS ARE NOTIFIED OF THE PROPOSED REGULATION 7 WITH A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF (I) THE PENALTY, (II) WHO HAS THE AUTHOR- 8 ITY TO ISSUE SUCH PENALTY, AND (III) HOW SUCH PENALTY SHALL BE 9 COLLECTED; 10 (B) A MAJORITY OF THE AFFECTED RESIDENTS APPROVES SUCH REGULATION 11 THROUGH A PAPER BALLOT; AND 12 (C) A MAJORITY OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF SUCH ENTITY APPROVES SUCH 13 REGULATION. 14 S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10752-01-1