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NY Pub Hsg L § 53 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 3 - Municipal Housing Authorities 53 - Depositories of Authority Funds.

§  53.  Depositories  of  authority funds.   In order to protect funds   deposited by an authority all banks, bankers, trust companies  or  other   persons  carrying on a banking business, organized under the laws of the   state, are authorized to give to the authority an undertaking with  such   sureties  as  shall be approved by the authority, faithfully to keep and   pay over upon the order of the authority any such  deposits  and  agreed   interest  thereon, or in lieu of said sureties, to deposit as collateral   such securities and in such amounts as  may  be  agreed  upon  with  the   authority  pursuant  to a collateral deposit agreement in form and terms   satisfactory to the authority.   The collateral to  be  deposited  shall   consist  of  securities  in which savings banks may legally invest funds   within their control.
NY Pub Hsg L § 54 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 3 - Municipal Housing Authorities 54 - Filing by Authority of By-Laws, Rules and Regulations.

§  54.  Filing  by authority of by-laws, rules and regulations.  1. An   authority shall file with the commissioner a copy of any by-laws,  rules   and  regulations and amendments thereto adopted by it from time to time,   which  shall  become  effective  upon  approval  by  the   commissioner;   provided,  however,  that  if  the commissioner shall fail to approve or   disapprove such proposed by-laws, rules and regulations  and  amendments   within   three  months  after  such  filing,  such  by-laws,  rules  and   regulations and amendments shall become effective upon the expiration of   such three-month period.2. All rules and regulations, and amendments thereto,  adopted  by  an   authority  from  time to time, except such as relate to its organization   or internal management, shall be filed in the office of  the  department   of state.
NY Pub Hsg L § 55 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 3 - Municipal Housing Authorities 55 - Projects Undertaken by Municipalities.

§  55.  Projects  undertaken by municipalities.   Any municipality may   undertake  one  or  more  projects,  and  for  that  purpose,  any  such   municipality is hereby given the rights, powers and privileges and shall   be  subject  to  the  duties  and obligations granted to or imposed upon   authorities with respect to projects by the provisions of this  chapter.   The  municipality,  however,  shall  be subject to the provisions of the   local finance law, except as otherwise provided in section 20.00 of such   law.
NY Pub Hsg L § 56 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 3 - Municipal Housing Authorities 56 - Authorities Created Prior to the Enactment of This Chapter.

§ 56. Authorities created prior to the enactment of this chapter.  Any   authority created prior to the enactment of this chapter pursuant to the   provisions  of  the municipal housing authorities law shall continue, as   now constituted, in existence as an authority under  the  provisions  of   this chapter.
NY Pub Hsg L § 57 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 3 - Municipal Housing Authorities 57 - Dissolution of Authorities.

§  57.  Dissolution of authorities.   An authority or the municipality   may apply to the supreme court in any county in which  the  municipality   or  any  part thereof is located, for an order dissolving the authority.   The court thereupon shall hold a hearing in open court after such notice   of hearing as the court may require.  Upon a showing to the satisfaction   of  the  court  that  provision  has  been  made  for  the  payment   or   satisfaction  of all of the outstanding obligations of the authority and   for the necessary expenses for the liquidation thereof,  the  court  may   order  that  the  authority  be  dissolved.  Upon  such  dissolution the   property of the authority shall  be  and  become  the  property  of  the   municipality.
NY Pub Hsg L § 58-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 3 - Municipal Housing Authorities 58-A - Sale of Dwelling Units by Authorities.

§  58-a.  Sale  of  dwelling units by authorities.   1. Subject to the   approval of the commissioner in the case of a state project, the federal   government in the case of a federal project or in the case  of  dwelling   units  leased  by  an  authority  pursuant  to the provisions of section   twenty-three of the  United  States  housing  act  of  nineteen  hundred   thirty-seven, as amended, and thereafter purchased by the authority, and   the  local  legislative  body  in  the  case  of a municipal project, an   authority may sell a dwelling unit which is suitable by  reason  of  its   detached  or  semi-detached  construction  to  the  tenant  in occupancy   thereof, provided that such tenant is  a  family  of  low  income  whose   annual   income   is   within   the   income  limits  for  admission  to   limited-profit housing in the municipality  under  article  two  of  the   private housing finance law.2.  Any sale by an authority pursuant to paragraph one of this section   may be made pursuant to such negotiated contract,  agreement  or  lease,   containing   such   provisions,  limitations,  requirements,  terms  and   conditions as the authority  in  its  discretion  may  determine  to  be   necessary  or  desirable,  including  a  covenant  by the purchaser that   before offering such dwelling unit for sale within a period of  time  to   be  specified  in  such  covenant  the  purchaser  shall first offer the   dwelling unit to the authority at a price not greater than the  purchase   price  paid  therefor by the purchaser; provided that the purchase price   to be paid to the authority shall not be less than the  amount  required   by  the  authority  to  pay  or  make  provision  for the payment of all   outstanding obligations of the authority with respect to  such  dwelling   unit, as determined by the authority.
NY Pub Hsg L § 58-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 3 - Municipal Housing Authorities 58-B - Sale or Lease of Project in Connection With Federal Program of Assistance for Low Income Housing.

§ 58-b. Sale or lease of project in connection with federal program of   assistance  for low income housing.  In order to obtain for a project or   portion thereof the benefits of any federal program  of  assistance  for   housing  of persons and families of low income, an authority, other than   an authority in a city with a population of more than one million,  may,   subject  to  the  approval of the commissioner and the local legislative   body, contract to sell or lease, and  sell  or  lease,  the  project  or   portion  thereof upon such terms and conditions as it deems appropriate.   The commissioner shall not approve the transaction  unless  he  makes  a   finding  that:  (a)  the  federal  assistance available upon the sale or   lease will enable the project  to  provide  decent,  safe  and  sanitary   housing  within  the  financial  reach  of  persons  and families of low   income; and (b) sufficient provision has been made to pay  or  otherwise   assure  the  payment  or  retirement  of  all  bonds,  notes  and  other   obligations issued  to  finance  the  project  or  portion  thereof.  In   connection  with  such transaction, the authority, the municipality, the   commissioner, the attorney general, and the comptroller,  may  take  all   necessary   and  appropriate  actions,  including  the  modification  or   termination of any applicable loan  and  subsidy  agreement.  The  power   granted  by this section shall be in addition to any other power granted   to an authority by any other provision of this chapter or any other law.
NY Pub Hsg L § 59 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 3 - Municipal Housing Authorities 59 - Disposal of Records.

§  59.  Disposal of records.  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or  local  law,  any  municipal  housing  authority  or officer  or  employee  thereof  is  hereby empowered to destroy, sell or otherwise dispose of any book, paper, map,  photograph,  microphotograph or other record regardless of its physical form or characteristic, which has  been made, acquired, or received or is now in its custody and which the authority determines no longer has sufficient administrative, legal, fiscal, research or historical value to warrant its continued  retention and  preservation,  provided  the authority authorizes such destruction, sale, or other disposition.   2. The provisions of this section shall not  apply  to  the  following records of municipal housing authorities unless copies for retention are reproduced as provided in section sixty of this chapter:  (a)  The  official  copy  of  the  minutes  of  any  municipal housing authority including appendices and attachments thereto.  (b) The official copy of any annual report of  any  municipal  housing authority to the commissioner.  (c)  Records  which  have not been retained for such period of time as may be required:  (1) by the federal government or any of its agencies;  (2) by rules and regulations of the state comptroller;  (3) by rules and regulations of the commissioner.
NY Pub Hsg L § 60 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 3 - Municipal Housing Authorities 60 - Reproduction of Records.

§  60.  Reproduction of records.   Any municipal housing authority may   cause any paper, document or other record kept or recorded by it  to  be   recorded,   copied  or  reproduced  by  any  photographic,  photostatic,   microfilm, microcard, miniature  photographic  or  other  process  which   accurately  reproduces  or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the   original. Such reproduction, when satisfactorily  identified,  shall  be   deemed  to  be  an  original  for  all  purposes and is as admissible in   evidence as the  original  itself  in  any  judicial  or  administrative   proceeding,  and  an  enlargement  or  facsimile of such reproduction is   likewise admissible in evidence  if  the  original  reproduction  is  in   existence and available for inspection under direction of the court.
NY Pub Hsg L § 61 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 3 - Municipal Housing Authorities 61 - Tenant Meetings in Common Areas.

§  61. Tenant meetings in common areas. Any group, committee, or other   organization  comprised  of  tenants  residing  in   housing   authority   developments  conducting  a  meeting  authorized pursuant to section two   hundred thirty of the real property law shall have  the  right  to  meet   without  being required to pay a fee in any area owned by such authority   which is devoted to the common use of  all  tenants.  Such  areas  shall   include  but  not  be limited to a community or social room where use is   normally subject to a fee,  provided,  however,  that  such  meeting  is   conducted  in  a  peaceful  manner,  at  reasonable  hours  and  without   obstructing access to the  premises  or  facilities.  Five  days'  prior   written  notice of such a meeting must be given to the management office   of the project development. If such common area is  unavailable  on  the   requested  day,  the management office must provide the group, committee   or other organization comprised of  tenants  with  any  times  that  the   common area will be available during a fourteen-day period commencing on   the fifth day after written notice was given to the management office.
NY Pub Hsg L § 70 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 4 - State Aid 70 - State Loans.

§  70.  State loans.   The commissioner may, in the name of the state,   enter into contracts for loans to an authority or a municipality for one   or more projects, though a project has received or will receive aid from   any other source, except the  federal  government.  All  such  contracts   shall  be  subject  to  approval  by  the  state comptroller, and by the   attorney-general as to form.  Any such loan shall be in such  amount  as   the  commissioner,  in  his discretion, may deem necessary to insure the   completion, availability for lawful occupancy and use of the project. No   loan shall be made in an amount greater  than  the  project  cost,  plus   working capital in an amount not to exceed two per centum of the project   cost  or  one hundred thousand dollars, whichever is less, nor until the   municipal comptroller and local legislative  body  have  attached  their   separate  approvals  to  the  loan  contract.  The commissioner may make   temporary loans or advances to a housing authority  in  anticipation  of   such  loan  and  no  such  temporary  loan or advance shall be deemed to   constitute part of such loan unless such temporary loan or  advance  has   been  made  out  of the proceeds of definitive housing bonds sold by the   state pursuant to section sixty of the state finance law.
NY Pub Hsg L § 71 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 4 - State Aid 71 - Conditions Precedent to State Loans.

§  71.  Conditions precedent to state loans.  1. No loan shall be made unless the commissioner finds that: (a) the  project  is  in  conformity with a plan or undertaking for the clearance, replanning, reconstruction or  rehabilitation of a substandard and insanitary area or areas and for recreational and other facilities incidental or appurtenant thereto;  (b) The municipality in which  such  project  is  to  be  located  has enacted   or  will  enact  zoning  regulations,  or  other  restrictions adequately protecting the area or areas in which the project  is  to  be undertaken, against future uses likely to depreciate unduly the value of such project;  (c)  The estimated revenues, including any governmental grants, of the project or part for which such loan is to be made will be sufficient  to cover  all probable costs of operation and maintenance, of fixed charges and operating and depreciation reserves;  (d) The plans and  specifications  conform  or  will  conform  to  the requirements  of  this  and  all other laws applicable thereto, assuring adequate light, air, sanitation and fire protection;  (e) Adequate open  spaces  for  recreation  are  provided  within  the project  or  provision  therefor  has  been  made  conveniently near the project; stating the manner in which such spaces  are  provided  or  are proposed to be within the project or near thereto;  (f)  Adequate  school  facilities  are  near  the project or provision therefor has been made, listing such facilities;  (g) The occupants of the proposed  housing  accommodations  will  have convenient access to probable places of employment;  (h)  That an adequate number of dwelling units especially designed for the convenience and safety of aged persons as  may  be  defined  by  the commissioner  shall be provided where a survey of the community in which the project is located indicates a need  therefor,  and  that  provision will be made to insure that such aged persons shall have priority in the rental thereof. Where all, or substantially all of the dwelling units in a  project  have been especially designed for the convenience and safety of aged persons, the  finding  required  under  paragraph  (f)  of  this subdivision need not be made.  (i)  an  adequate number of dwelling units especially designed for the convenience and safety of handicapped persons as may be defined  by  the commissioner  shall be provided where a survey of the community in which the project is located indicates a need therefor, that provision will be made to insure that such handicapped persons shall have priority in  the rental   thereof,   and   that  a  project  is  designed  to  facilitate unobstructed ingress to and egress from a project.   2. Such findings shall be conclusive evidence  of  the  facts  therein contained  except  upon  proof  of  fraud  or  wilful misfeasance by the commissioner.
NY Pub Hsg L § 72 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 4 - State Aid 72 - Terms and Security for State Loans.

§  72.  Terms and security for state loans.  1. Loans shall be made at   the rate of interest paid or to be paid  by  the  state  for  the  funds   loaned  to  the authority or municipality, plus a proportionate share of   the actual direct cost of  the  borrowing  as  certified  by  the  state   comptroller. Such loan shall be repaid in equal annual installments over   or within a period of fifty years, but in no case to exceed the probable   life of the buildings and improvements of the project or part thereof to   which  the  proceeds thereof are to be applied. The probable life of the   buildings and improvements of such projects is hereby determined  to  be   fifty  years.  Each  installment  shall  equal the amount payable by the   state for moneys borrowed for the loan and shall be paid not later  than   five days before each such payment by the state is required.2.  The  loan  contract  shall  provide  that  upon  any  date when an   installment of principal shall become due and payable the authority  may   anticipate  any  installment which would otherwise thereafter become due   and payable. In the case of loans to municipalities, the  loan  contract   may contain such a provision.3.  Should  the  authority  or  municipality  fail  to make payment of   interest or principal upon any  due  date,  the  state  comptroller  may   deduct and retain from any moneys otherwise payable by the state to such   authority or municipality, the amount of such interest and principal and   credit such authority or municipality with the amount of such deduction.
NY Pub Hsg L § 74 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 4 - State Aid 74 - Restrictions on Additional Subsidies.

§  74.  Restrictions on additional subsidies.  No subsidy, in addition   to any periodic subsidy originally contracted for in aid of any  project   or  projects, shall be paid by the state to a municipality or authority,   acting as an instrumentality thereof, for the purpose of  enabling  such   municipality  or  authority  to  remedy  an  actual  default or avoid an   impending default in the payment of principal or interest  on  any  loan   which  has  been  theretofore  made by the state to such municipality or   authority pursuant to this chapter.
NY Pub Hsg L § 75 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 4 - State Aid 75 - Restriction on Use of State Aid.

§  75.  Restriction on use of state aid.  No state moneys allocated to   an authority or a municipality hereunder shall be mingled or  commingled   with  financial  aid  or  assistance  from the federal government or any   agency thereof, except with the approval of the commissioner.
NY Pub Hsg L § 76 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 4 - State Aid 76 - Pledge of Subsidy.

§  76.  Pledge of subsidy.   Payments under any contracts for periodic   subsidies by the state may be pledged by an authority  as  security  for   loans  obtained  from  any source for the project to which such periodic   subsidies relate.
NY Pub Hsg L § 92 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 5 - Municipal Aid 92 - Real Estate Tax for Debt Service.

§  92.  Real  estate  tax  for  debt  service.    If a city issues its   obligations for any project or to raise  funds  to  loan  in  aid  of  a   project,  such  city  may  levy  an ad valorem tax on real estate to the   extent that revenues derived in any year from taxes levied  pursuant  to   this  chapter, together with revenues from the project or projects aided   by the proceeds of any such obligations  shall  become  insufficient  to   provide  fully  for  the  payment of principal and interest in that year   upon obligations issued for either or both purposes.
NY Pub Hsg L § 93 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 5 - Municipal Aid 93 - Authorization to Make Loans.

§  93.  Authorization  to make loans.  A municipality is authorized to   make or contract to make loans  to  an  authority  and  to  any  housing   company  operating  within  the territorial limits of such municipality.   Loans  to  housing  companies  shall  not  be  greater  in  amount  than   seventy-five per centum of the project cost.
NY Pub Hsg L § 94 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 5 - Municipal Aid 94 - Authorization to Make Subsidies.

§ 94. Authorization to make subsidies. A municipality is authorized to   make  or  contract to make capital or periodic subsidies to an authority   operating within the territorial limits of  such  municipality,  payable   only with moneys locally appropriated therefor from the general or other   funds  available  for  current  expenses  of such municipality. Periodic   subsidies shall not be contracted for a period longer than the  life  of   the project assisted thereby, and in no event for more than fifty years.   If  the amount of any periodic subsidy shall be equal to or greater than   the interest on and the amounts required annually for the payment of the   indebtedness contracted by the authority on account of a project in  any   year, such contract shall constitute a guarantee of the principal of and   the  interest  on  such indebtedness, and such contract and the payments   thereunder may be pledged by the authority as security  in  addition  to   all other security which the authority may give for such indebtedness.A municipality may levy one or more of the taxes enumerated in section   one  hundred  ten  for  the  purpose  of making municipal subsidies. The   revenues resulting from the imposition of such tax or taxes, other  than   the  taxes  described  in  subdivision (e) of section one hundred ten of   this chapter in a city having a  population  of  one  million  or  more,   notwithstanding  the  provisions of any general, special or local law to   the contrary, shall be deposited in the city treasury and credited to  a   separate  account.  During  each  fiscal  year  of such municipality, an   amount not in excess of the amount of the subsidies to be made  by  such   municipality  during  such  fiscal year shall be charged to such account   and credited to the general fund for the reduction of taxation  or  into   the  general  or  other  fund  available  for  current  expenses of such   municipality. No other payment shall be charged  to  such  account.  The   provisions  of  section  one  hundred  eleven  of  this chapter shall be   applicable to any tax or taxes imposed pursuant to this section.In a city having a population of one million  or  more,  the  revenues   from  the  taxes described in subdivision (e) of section one hundred ten   of this chapter shall be deposited in the general fund and a payment  of   an  equal  amount  shall  be made, in the same fiscal year or as soon as   practicable thereafter, for the purposes described in such section.
NY Pub Hsg L § 95 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 5 - Municipal Aid 95 - Authorization to Guarantee.

§  95.  Authorization  to guarantee.   A municipality is authorized to   guarantee for a period not exceeding the probable life of a project, the   principal of and interest on, or  only  the  interest  on,  indebtedness   contracted  by  an  authority operating within the territorial limits of   such municipality in connection with such project.
NY Pub Hsg L § 96 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 5 - Municipal Aid 96 - Administrative Expenses of Authority.

§  96.  Administrative  expenses  of authority.   Each municipality in   which  an  authority  is  situated  may  annually  appropriate  to  such   authority  the  amount required by said authority for its administrative   expenses. The amount thereof shall be within the discretion of the local   legislative body of such municipality. Such payments may be made out  of   any  fund  available  for that purpose. No administrative expenses of an   authority shall be paid from any state  loan  or  subsidy  or  from  the   rental income of any state project.