2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 13 - Municipal Housing Authorities, Created › Title 1 - New York City Housing Authority › 402-E - Disruption of Vital Services.

§  402-e.  Disruption  of  vital  services.  1. (a) In order to ensure
compliance and enforcement of the New York city housing authority's duty
to provide heat, water, electricity and elevator service, the  New  York
city  housing  authority  shall  publish  information regarding reported
disruptions in such services, the length of  such  disruptions  and  the
steps  taken  to  restore  services. Starting on May first, two thousand
twenty,  the  New  York  city  housing  authority  shall  publish   such
information   on   its  website.  For  six  months  after  the  original
publication date, the New York city housing authority shall retain  such
information on its website.
(b)  When  a  public utility or local, state or federal agency advises
the New York city housing  authority  that  certain  residents  of  such
authority  should  avoid  the use of water for drinking or cooking, such
authority shall provide written notice, in electronic and paper form, of
such advice to the indicated  residents  and  the  resident  association
president or other formally recognized resident leader for the indicated
development  as  soon  as  practical but no later than twenty-four hours
after such authority has received such advice.
1-a. The New York city housing authority shall  establish  appropriate
measures,  procedures, and guidelines, such as contract requirements and
enforcement mechanisms, to  ensure  that  all  of  its  contractors  and
subcontractors,  when collecting or examining water samples on behalf of
such authority, comply with all federal, state, and local  laws,  rules,
and  regulations applicable to such collection or examination, including
the provisions of section five hundred two of the public health law.
2. No later than April first, two thousand twenty, the New  York  city
housing authority shall meet with representatives of the housing part of
the  New  York  city  civil  court,  a  representative of public housing
tenants from each borough in the city of New York, and a  representative
of a legal services provider with experience representing public housing
tenants  in  the housing part of the New York city civil court, in order
to review and comment on the New York city housing authority's  proposed
additions  to  its  website  as  described  in  subdivision  one of this
section.
3. Nothing in this section shall be deemed  to  limit  or  modify  the
manner in which a tenant may report unscheduled interruption in services
to  their particular unit when not associated with a broader building or
development unscheduled  interruption  of  services,  or  to  limit  the
applicability  of  the warranty of habitability to New York city housing
authority apartments or to limit the authority  of  the  New  York  city
council  to  legislate  in  the  area of housing code violations or with
respect to the New York city  department  of  housing  preservation  and
development.
4.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall be deemed to limit or modify the
obligation of the department of housing preservation and development  to
inspect  and  verify the existence of conditions of all kinds in the New
York city housing authority.