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2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 7 - Acquisition of Property › 128 - Filing of Instruments Assigning or Pledging Awards.

§  128.  Filing  of  instruments assigning or pledging awards.  In the
  case of the pledge, sale, transfer or assignment  of  an  award  by  the
  person entitled to receive the same by virtue of the final decree of the
  court  in a condemnation proceeding, or by other order of the court, the
  instrument  evidencing  such  pledge,  sale,  transfer  or   assignment,
  acknowledged or proved as instruments are required to be acknowledged or
  proved  for  the recording of instruments affecting real property, shall
  be filed in the office of the secretary  of  the  authority,  who  shall
  endorse  on such instrument its number and the hour, day, month and year
  of its receipt. If such final decree or other order was obtained by  the
  municipality  on  behalf  of  or  for  the  benefit  of the authority, a
  duplicate original of such instrument must also be filed  in  accordance
  with  the  provisions of any general, special or local law applicable to
  awards payable by such municipality. If an assignment of an award  shall
  be   contained  in  an  instrument  recorded  in  the  office  in  which
  instruments affecting real property are by law required to be  recorded,
  a  certified copy thereof may be filed in the office of the secretary of
  the authority in place of the original. An alphabetical index  shall  be
  kept  under  the  name  of the pledgor or assignor and of the pledgee or
  assignee, stating the title of the proceeding, the time of the filing of
  the instrument, the file number thereof, and what part of the  award  is
  assigned  thereby.  A  memorandum  of  the file number of the instrument
  shall be made by the secretary of the authority on the duplicate  decree
  of a court, opposite the place where the amount of the award so assigned
  is  set  forth.  Every  such  instrument  not  so filed shall be void as
  against any subsequent pledgee or assignee  in  good  faith  and  for  a
  valuable  consideration  from  the  same pledgor or assignor, his heirs,
  administrators or assigns, of the same award or any portion thereof, the
  assignment of which is first duly filed in the office of  the  secretary
  of  the  authority.  Payment  to  the  assignee  or  pledgee shown to be
  entitled to the award by such record in the office of the  secretary  of
  the  authority  shall  protect the authority from liability to any other
  person or persons.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 8 - Provisions Relating to Approval, Construction, Management and Operation of Projects › 150 - Approval of Plan and Projects.

§  150.  Approval  of plan and projects.  1. The prior approval of the
  local legislative body and of the planning commission, if  any,  in  the
  manner hereinafter provided in subdivision two of this section, shall be
  requisite  to  the  final  adoption  or  approval  by  an  authority  or
  municipality of a plan or project. Where a master plan exists such  plan
  shall  conform  to  such  master plan, except as such master plan may be
  changed pursuant to the procedure prescribed by law.  Where  changes  in
  the city map and zoning amendments or variances are necessitated by such
  master  plan,  or  in  furtherance of such master plan, such amendments,
  variances and changes shall be  submitted  together  with  the  plan  or
  project herein and considered as part thereof.
2.  Every  plan  or  project  proposed by an authority or municipality
  shall be submitted by the authority or the municipality to the  planning
  commission,  if  any,  for  approval.  The  planning commission, after a
  public hearing, notice of which shall be published  at  least  ten  days
  prior  thereto  in  the  official publication of the municipality, or if
  none exists, in a newspaper circulating in the municipality,  and  after
  considering the plan or project, may:
a. Issue a report of unqualified approval; or
b. Issue a report of conditional or qualified approval; or
c. Issue a report disapproving thereof.
The   plan   or  project  shall  be  submitted  by  the  authority  or
  municipality, together with the report of the  planning  commission,  to
  the  local legislative body for its approval. If the planning commission
  shall have issued a report of unqualified approval, the plan or  project
  may be approved in accordance with the report of the planning commission
  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  local  legislative body. If the planning
  commission shall have issued a report  disapproving  thereof,  or  shall
  have issued a report of conditional or qualified approval, or shall have
  failed to make its report within six weeks of the submission of the plan
  or  project by the authority or municipality to the planning commission,
  the local legislative  body  may,  nevertheless,  approve  the  plan  or
  project  but  only  by  a  three-fourths vote. Notwithstanding any other
  provision of law,  changes  in  the  city  map,  zoning  amendments,  or
  variances  contained  in  the plan shall be deemed approved by the local
  legislative body when it approves the plan or project. Any such  changes
  in  the city map, zoning amendments, or variances shall become effective
  on the date on which the authority shall  file  a  resolution  with  the
  local legislative body in implementation thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 8 - Provisions Relating to Approval, Construction, Management and Operation of Projects › 152 - Labor Requirements.

§  152.  Labor requirements.   All contracts of an authority involving
  the employment, among others, of laborers, workmen or mechanics shall be
  in conformity with the provisions of article eight of the labor law, and
  such provisions shall be deemed terms of all such contracts; and for the
  purpose of obtaining the prevailing rate  of  wages  or  fees  for  such
  contracts,  the  authority  shall  proceed  in  the  same  manner as the
  municipality  in  which  the  authority  operates.  All  such  contracts
  involving  the  employment,  among  others,  of architects, draftsmen or
  technicians, whether or not working on the site of  the  project,  shall
  contain  a  provision requiring that the wages or fees prevailing in the
  municipality  shall  be  paid  to   such   architects,   draftsmen   and
  technicians;  and  for  the  purpose of obtaining the prevailing rate of
  wages or fees, the authority shall proceed in the  same  manner  as  the
  municipality  proceeds in obtaining the prevailing rate of wages or fees
  for laborers, workmen and mechanics; and the industrial commissioner  of
  the  state  or  the  municipal  comptroller,  as  the case may be, shall
  determine such prevailing rates of wages or fees upon application of  an
  authority  in  the same manner as provided by article eight of the labor
  law for laborers, workmen and mechanics. Employees  of  all  contractors
  and  subcontractors  employed under or by virtue of such contracts shall
  have  the  right  to  organize  and  to  bargain  collectively   through
  representatives of their own choosing.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 8 - Provisions Relating to Approval, Construction, Management and Operation of Projects › 154 - Control of Rentals on Authority Projects.

§ 154. Control of rentals on authority projects.  Subject to the terms
  of  any  loan  or  subsidy  contract with a government, the power to fix
  rents on a project  shall  rest  exclusively  with  the  authority.  But
  nothing  in this chapter shall prevent an authority or municipality from
  establishing, in  addition  to  all  other  operation  and  depreciation
  reserve  funds,  a reserve fund, or funds which may be applied in aid of
  the construction, operation or maintenance of  other  projects  of  such
  authority or municipality.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 8 - Provisions Relating to Approval, Construction, Management and Operation of Projects › 155 - Compliance With State and Local Laws.

§  155.  Compliance  with state and local laws.  All projects shall be
  subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary and building laws,  ordinances
  and  regulations  applicable in the municipality in which the project is
  situated. Zoning  regulations  or  other  restrictions  enacted  by  the
  municipality  to  adequately  protect the area or areas of a project, as
  such area or areas are shown on an approved zoning map of  such  project
  filed  with  the  municipal  officer  charged with enforcing such zoning
  regulations  or  other  restrictions,  shall  thereafter  be  maintained
  without variance unless written notice of any proposed change, amendment
  or  variance  be  given  by  the  municipality  to the housing authority
  erecting  or  owning  such  project  and  to  the  government  providing
  financial  aid  or  assistance to the project at least ten days prior to
  the date of any public hearing at which such proposed change,  amendment
  or variance is to be considered.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 8 - Provisions Relating to Approval, Construction, Management and Operation of Projects › 156-A - Notice of Rejection of Applicants for Admission.

§  156-a.  Notice  of  rejection of applicants for admission.   In the
  event that the authority determines that an applicant is ineligible  for
  public  housing  it shall cause a written record stating the reasons for
  ineligibility to be filed in its office.  The applicant shall be  mailed
  a  letter  from  the  housing  authority  stating  that the applicant is
  ineligible and that the applicant may  be  apprised  of  the  reason  or
  reasons  for such ineligibility at a personal interview at the office of
  the housing authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 8 - Provisions Relating to Approval, Construction, Management and Operation of Projects › 156-B - Notice of Expiration of Application.

§   156-b.   Notice  of  expiration  of  application.    Whenever  the
  regulations of an authority  provide  that  an  application  for  public
  housing  expires after a period of time, the applicant shall be notified
  in  writing  by  the  authority  of  the  date  of  expiration  of  such
  application.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 8 - Provisions Relating to Approval, Construction, Management and Operation of Projects › 156-C - Statement Required for Termination of Lease.

§ 156-c. Statement required for termination of lease.  Notwithstanding
  any other provision of law, an authority must incorporate into a written
  notice  of termination of a lease the specific grounds upon which it has
  made its determination for termination.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 8 - Provisions Relating to Approval, Construction, Management and Operation of Projects › 157 - Claims and Actions Against Authorities.

§  157. Claims and actions against authorities.  1. In every action or
  special proceeding, for any cause whatsoever, prosecuted  or  maintained
  against  an  authority, other than a claim arising out of a condemnation
  proceeding, the complaint or necessary moving papers  shall  contain  an
  allegation  that  at  least  thirty  days have elapsed since the demand,
  claim or claims upon which such action or special proceeding is  founded
  were presented to the authority for adjustment and that it has neglected
  or  refused  to  make  an  adjustment or payment thereof for thirty days
  after such presentment.
2. An action against an authority for damages for injuries to real  or
  personal  property,  or  for the destruction thereof, or for damages for
  personal injuries, alleged to have  been  sustained  by  reason  of  the
  negligence  of,  or by the creation or maintenance of a nuisance by said
  authority, or any member, officer, agent or employee thereof,  shall  be
  commenced  within  one  year  and  ninety days after the cause of action
  therefor shall have accrued, provided that a notice of the intention  to
  commence  such action shall have been served upon the authority. All the
  provisions of section fifty-e of the general municipal law  shall  apply
  to  such  notice. The authority may require any claimant hereunder to be
  examined as provided in section fifty-h of the  general  municipal  law,
  and all the provisions of such section shall apply to such examinations.
3.  The  authority may require any person presenting for settlement an
  account or claim for any cause  against  the  authority,  except  as  to
  examination  on  claims as set forth in subdivision two of this section,
  to be sworn before a member, the secretary, counsel or  an  attorney  of
  the  authority,  touching  such  account or claim, and when so sworn, to
  answer orally as to any facts relative to the adjustment of such account
  or claim. The authority may settle or adjust  all  claims  in  favor  or
  against  the  authority,  and  all  accounts  in  which the authority is
  concerned as debtor or creditor; but  in  adjusting  and  settling  such
  claims, it shall, as far as practicable, be governed by the rules of law
  and principles of equity which prevail in courts of justice.
4.  This  section shall not apply to claims, actions or proceedings by
  obligees on bonds or covenants of an authority, or claims arising out of
  condemnation proceedings except as provided in subdivision five herein.
5. The rate of interest to be paid by an authority upon  any  judgment
  or  accrued claim against the authority shall not exceed nine per centum
  per annum.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 8 - Provisions Relating to Approval, Construction, Management and Operation of Projects › 158 - Real Property of Authorities Exempt From Levy.

§  158.  Real  property  of  authorities  exempt from levy.   All real
  property of an authority shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of
  an execution, and no execution or other  judicial  process  shall  issue
  against  the  same,  nor  shall  any  judgment against an authority be a
  charge or lien upon its  real  property;  provided,  however,  that  the
  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not apply to or limit the right of
  obligees to foreclose or otherwise enforce any mortgage of an  authority
  or  the  right of obligees to pursue any remedies for the enforcement of
  any covenant of an authority or of  any  pledge  or  lien  given  by  an
  authority on its rents, fees or revenues.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 8 - Provisions Relating to Approval, Construction, Management and Operation of Projects › 159 - Disclosure of Certain Information Prohibited.

§  159.    Disclosure  of certain information prohibited.  Information
  acquired by an authority, the division of housing and community  renewal
  or  a  municipality or by an officer or employee thereof from applicants
  for dwellings in projects of  an  authority  or  municipality  or  other
  housing  programs  administered  by a housing authority, municipality or
  the division of housing  and  community  renewal,  or  from  tenants  of
  dwellings thereof or from members of the family of any such applicant or
  tenant  or  from  employers  of  such  persons or from any third person,
  whether voluntarily or by compulsory examination  as  provided  in  this
  chapter,  shall  be  for  the  exclusive  use  and  information  of  the
  authority, division of housing and community renewal or municipality  in
  the  discharge of its duties under this chapter and shall not be open to
  the public nor be used in any court in any action or proceeding  pending
  therein unless the authority, division of housing and community renewal,
  municipality  or successor in interest thereof is a party or complaining
  witness to such action or proceeding.   Notwithstanding  the  foregoing,
  the  authority  or  municipality  shall  furnish  to the commissioner of
  housing and community renewal full and complete reports relating to  any
  such  applicant  or  tenant  whenever  the  commissioner  of housing and
  community renewal shall request such  reports.    Also,  nothing  herein
  contained  shall  operate  to  prevent an authority or municipality from
  making full and complete reports to  the  commissioner  of  housing  and
  community  renewal or to the municipality in which an authority operates
  or to the federal government or  any  agency  thereof  relating  to  the
  administration of this chapter or of any project or relating to any such
  applicant or tenant, nor to prohibit an authority or municipality or any
  government  or  agency  receiving  such  information  of an authority or
  municipality, from publishing statistics or  other  general  information
  drawn from information received from such applicants or tenants.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 10 - Loans to Owners of Existing Multiple Dwellings › 210 - Policy and Purposes of Article.

§  210.  Policy  and purposes of article.   It is hereby declared that
  there exists in municipalities in  this  state  a  seriously  inadequate
  supply  of  safe  and  sanitary  dwelling accommodations for persons and
  families of low income; that such shortage constitutes an emergency  and
  a  grave  menace  to  the health, safety, morals, welfare and comfort of
  citizens of this state; that there exists in such municipalities a large
  number of multiple dwellings which are inadequate, unsafe or  insanitary
  by  reason  of  the absence of proper heating facilities or by reason of
  the necessity for elimination of conditions dangerous to human  life  or
  detrimental  to health, including nuisances as defined, in section three
  hundred nine of the multiple dwelling law, or for  other  rehabilitation
  or improvement and which can be made adequate, safe and sanitary, by the
  installation  of proper heating facilities or by other rehabilitation or
  improvement  or  by  the  elimination  of  such  conditions;  that  such
  installation,  rehabilitation  or improvement cannot readily be provided
  by the ordinary unaided operation of private enterprise for occupancy by
  persons or families of low income without public aid in the form of  low
  interest  loans  to owners of such multiple dwellings for the purpose of
  such installation, rehabilitation or improvement; that the  installation
  of  proper  heating  facilities  in  such  multiple  dwellings  or other
  rehabilitation or improvement thereof for occupancy by  persons  of  low
  income  as  defined in this article is a public use and a public purpose
  for which public money may be loaned; that such conditions  require  the
  provisions hereinafter enacted; and the necessity in the public interest
  for the provisions hereinafter enacted is hereby declared as a matter of
  legislative determination.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 10 - Loans to Owners of Existing Multiple Dwellings › 212 - Loans to Owners.

§  212.  Loans  to  owners.  1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of any
  general, special or local law, a municipality, by its local  legislative
  body,  may  make  or  contract  to  make loans to the owners of existing
  multiple dwellings within its territorial limits, in such amounts as may
  be required for  the  installation  of  proper  heating  facilities,  or
  elimination  of  conditions  dangerous  to  human life or detrimental to
  health, including nuisances as defined, in section three hundred nine of
  the multiple dwelling law, or other  rehabilitation  or  improvement  of
  such  multiple  dwellings,  and  may make temporary loans or advances to
  such owners in anticipation of the permanent municipal  loans  for  such
  purposes.
2. Each permanent loan shall be secured by a bond and mortgage or note
  and  mortgage  upon  the multiple dwelling and the land upon which it is
  situated. The amount of any such loan, together with the amount  of  all
  prior  loans and encumbrances, shall not exceed ninety per centum of the
  value of the property, after completion of the  installation  of  proper
  heating   facilities,   or  elimination  of  such  conditions  or  other
  rehabilitation or improvement, as estimated by  the  agency.  Each  such
  bond  and mortgage or note and mortgage shall be repaid over or within a
  period of twenty years in such manner as may be provided  in  such  bond
  and  mortgage or note and mortgage and contract but in no case to exceed
  the probable life of the multiple dwelling which is hereby determined to
  be twenty years. Such bond and mortgage or note  and  mortgage  and  the
  contract  in  connection  with  such  permanent  and temporary loans may
  contain such other  terms  and  provisions  not  inconsistent  with  the
  provisions  of  this  article  as  the  local  legislative body may deem
  necessary or desirable to secure repayment of  the  loan,  the  interest
  thereon  and  other charges in connection therewith and to carry out the
  purposes and provisions of this article.
3. The bond or note issued by the owner of such multiple dwelling  and
  the mortgage relating thereto may authorize such owner, with the consent
  of the agency, to prepay the principal of the loan subject to such terms
  and  conditions  as therein provided. Such bond or note and mortgage may
  contain such other clauses and provisions as the agency shall require.
4.  The  agency  may  charge  the  owner  of  such  multiple  dwelling
  reasonable  fees  for financing, regulation, supervision and audit. Such
  fees shall be kept by the municipality in a separate fund to be known as
  the housing rehabilitation fund  and  shall  be  used  to  pay  for  the
  expenses  of  the  municipality  in  administering  and carrying out the
  provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 10 - Loans to Owners of Existing Multiple Dwellings › 214 - Conditions Precedent to Making Such Loans.

§  214.  Conditions  precedent  to making such loans.  1. No such loan
shall be made by a municipality to an  owner  of  an  existing  multiple
dwelling  unless  the  owner  of  such multiple dwelling and all persons
holding a lien prior to that  of  the  municipality  shall  covenant  in
writing  that  so long as any part of such loan remains unpaid and for a
period of at least ten years from the occupancy date:  (a) Each dwelling
unit in such multiple dwelling shall be available solely for persons  or
families of low income;
(b)  Preference shall be given to persons who shall have lived in such
multiple dwelling at the time the contract for the loan was entered into
and were required to move because of such  installation,  rehabilitation
or improvement;
(c)  No  charge  or rental for housing accommodations in such multiple
dwelling shall be made or charged in excess of the rentals prescribed by
the agency at the time such loan is made  or  as  such  rentals  may  be
revised from time to time by the agency;
(d)  The agency may order such repairs as will preserve the health and
safety of the occupants of such multiple dwelling;
(e) All persons operating or  managing  such  multiple  dwelling  will
comply with the provisions of this article and the rules and regulations
adopted  by  the agency pertaining to multiple dwellings aided hereunder
and will refrain from doing any acts in violation thereof;
(f) All  such  persons  will  permit  the  duly  authorized  officers,
employees,  agents  or  inspectors of the agency to enter in or upon and
inspect such multiple dwelling at all reasonable hours;
(g) The agency shall have full power to investigate into and order the
owner of said multiple dwelling to furnish such reports and  information
as  the  agency  may require concerning the planning and construction of
the installation, rehabilitation or improvement and the  management  and
operation  of  said  multiple  dwelling. The agency shall also have full
power to audit the books of such owner with respect to such matters;
(h) The foregoing covenants shall run with the land.
2. The local legislative body of the municipality shall have power  to
impose additional terms and conditions precedent to making such loans.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 10-B - War Demobilization Emergency Housing › 219-A - Policy of State and Purpose of Article.

§  219-a.  Policy  of  state  and  purpose  of article.   It is hereby
  declared that there exists within the  state,  and  particularly  within
  certain  cities  thereof,  an acute shortage of housing; that low income
  inhabitants of the state, and  particularly  demobilized  servicemen  of
  world  war  II and their families, as well as the families of servicemen
  still serving within the military and naval forces of the United States,
  are unable to obtain adequate, safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations
  within their financial reach; that this condition is  a  menace  to  the
  health,  safety,  morals, welfare and reasonable comfort of the citizens
  of the state; that this condition has reached  the  stage  of  an  acute
  emergency  which  cannot be adequately and immediately alleviated by the
  normal  processes  of  construction  of  permanent   housing   and   the
  construction  of  permanent  public  housing projects in connection with
  slum clearance, and  that  immediate  mitigation  is  required  by  such
  emergency  means  as  are  available;  that this condition requires that
  provision be made for public emergency housing as hereinafter  provided;
  that  this  condition  requires  that  certain cities and authorities be
  authorized to cooperate and enter into agreements with a government  and
  with  each  other  to  the end that emergency housing may be obtained as
  expeditiously as possible; that this condition  requires  the  temporary
  suspension of various normal restrictions, prohibitions, limitations and
  procedures  to  the  end that emergency housing may be supplied with the
  least possible delay; that the  acquisition,  construction,  management,
  operation,  and  disposition  of such emergency housing and the real and
  personal  property  and  other  facilities  necessary,   incidental   or
  appurtenant thereto is a public use for which public money may be spent,
  private  property  acquired,  and  tax  exemption  granted; and that the
  necessity in the public interest for the provisions hereinafter  enacted
  is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 10-B - War Demobilization Emergency Housing › 219-B - Definitions.

§  219-b.  Definitions.    Notwithstanding the provisions of any other
  article of this chapter the following terms, whenever used  or  referred
  to  in  this  article,  shall  have  the  following  meanings,  unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. The term "emergency project" means a specific work or  improvement,
  including  lands,  buildings  and  improvements,  acquired, constructed,
  altered,  renovated,   or   reused   to   provide   emergency   dwelling
  accommodations  for  eligible  tenants,  as  hereafter  defined  in this
  section, together with such  social,  recreational,  communal  or  other
  non-housing  facilities  as  may  be  deemed by the authority or city or
  government undertaking such project  to  be  incidental  or  appurtenant
  thereto.  Emergency  projects  as  defined  herein  shall  be  deemed to
  constitute low rent housing within the meaning of  article  eighteen  of
  the  constitution and shall be deemed to be in conformity with a plan or
  undertaking  for  the  clearance,  replanning  and   reconstruction   or
  rehabilitation of a substandard and insanitary area and for recreational
  and other facilities incidental or appurtenant thereto.
2.  The  term  "eligible  tenant"  means:  (a)  distressed families of
  servicemen; (b) distressed veterans and their families;  (c)  distressed
  single  servicemen  and  veterans;  and  (d) other distressed persons or
  families of low income. The term "servicemen" shall include  any  person
  who is serving, and the term "veterans" shall include any person who has
  served during world war II, under conditions other than dishonorable, in
  the  military  or  naval  forces  or  the  merchant marine of the United
  States. Persons and families who are without adequate housing because of
  eviction or inadequate income or for other reasons, or are  affected  by
  unusual  hardships, and are unable to find adequate housing within their
  financial reach shall be deemed to be distressed.   Eligible tenants  as
  defined  herein  shall  be deemed to be persons of low income within the
  meaning of article eighteen of the constitution. Subject to the terms of
  any contract with a government, an authority shall  have  the  power  to
  select eligible tenants for emergency projects.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 10-B - War Demobilization Emergency Housing › 219-C - Additional Powers of Certain Authorities.

§  219-c.  Additional  powers  of  certain authorities.   An authority
  operating in a city having more than one million inhabitants shall  have
  the  following  powers  in  addition to the other powers granted by this
  chapter:
1.  Prepare  or  arrange  for  preparation  of  plans  for,   acquire,
  construct,  lease,  carry  out, manage, operate and dispose of emergency
  projects, and with regard to emergency projects shall have and exercise,
  except as in this article otherwise expressly provided, all the  powers,
  rights  and  privileges  granted  to  an authority under this chapter in
  reference to any project of an authority,  but  without  regard  to  the
  limitations  prescribed by sections ninety-seven, one hundred fifty, one
  hundred fifty-one, one hundred fifty-five, and one hundred fifty-six  of
  this chapter.
2.  Act  as agent for, or enter into contracts and otherwise cooperate
  with a government in connection with emergency projects.
3. Issue  bonds  and  notes  for  the  purposes  of  this  article  in
  accordance  with the powers granted under article three of this chapter,
  except that such bonds may be  issued  for  periods  not  exceeding  the
  probable  life of the emergency project for which they are issued, which
  probable life is hereby determined to be ten years. The  powers  granted
  by  this  section shall include the power of such authority to issue its
  bonds or notes to finance  all  or  any  part  of  the  development  and
  operation  of emergency projects which a city has undertaken by contract
  with a government, and as to which the authority will act  as  agent  or
  lessee  for  the city, notwithstanding that the city agrees to reimburse
  the authority for all or any part of the development  and  operation  of
  the emergency project.
4.  Issue  refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds
  previously issued by it for emergency projects  but  no  such  refunding
  bonds shall have a maturity date later than the end of the probable life
  of the emergency project for which they are issued.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 10-B - War Demobilization Emergency Housing › 219-E - Suspension of Building Restrictions.

*  § 219-e. Suspension of building restrictions.  1. The provisions of
  the multiple dwelling law and of any other law, charter,  administrative
  code,  building law, local law, ordinance, rule or regulation pertaining
  to  the  construction,  maintenance,  use  and  occupation  of   housing
  accommodations  and  incidental facilities, as well as the provisions of
  any general, special or local law, rule or regulation pertaining to  the
  planning and zoning of buildings, shall not apply to the construction by
  a  government  or  authority  of  an  emergency  project,  and  shall be
  suspended with respect to the maintenance, use and  occupation  thereof,
  and  the  equipment  and  fixtures  contained  therein,  as long as such
  project is operated by a government or  authority  for  the  purpose  of
  providing  emergency  housing, or by an educational institution to which
  the rights and interest  of  the  United  States  have  been,  or  shall
  hereafter be, relinquished and transferred pursuant to the provisions of
  chapter six hundred eighty-eight, public law seven hundred ninety-six of
  the  eightieth  Congress  (section fifteen hundred seventy-five of title
  forty-two, U. S. code) or any amendment  thereto,  for  the  purpose  of
  providing emergency housing. Any provision of general, special, or local
  law or any rule or regulation requiring the issuance of a certificate of
  occupancy  or  other  form  of  license or permit, as a condition to the
  occupancy of any building, shall likewise be suspended  with  regard  to
  emergency projects.
2.  The  provisions  of this section shall remain in effect during the
  period of the housing  emergency  and  the  acute  shortage  of  housing
  accommodations  but  in  no  event  beyond  July first, nineteen hundred
  fifty-four.
* NB Expired July 1, 1954 by its own terms
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 10-B - War Demobilization Emergency Housing › 219-F - Disposition of Emergency Projects.

§  219-f.  Disposition  of emergency projects.  Each emergency project
  shall be removed and disposed of as soon as practicable after  the  city
  in  which  the project is located determines that the emergency declared
  in this article has ended, but in no event beyond July  first,  nineteen
  hundred  fifty-four, and provided that an authority or city may contract
  with the federal government or with an agency or instrumentality thereof
  for such termination date for occupancy, removal and disposition  of  an
  emergency project, and upon such terms, as the federal government or its
  agency or instrumentality may require.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 10-B - War Demobilization Emergency Housing › 219-G - Limitations.

§  219-g.  Limitations.    An  authority or city shall not initiate an
  emergency project after July first, nineteen hundred fifty nor unless it
  shall find (which finding shall be conclusive in  any  suit,  action  or
  proceeding)  that  within  its  territorial  jurisdiction,  there  is  a
  shortage of adequate, safe and sanitary dwellings for  eligible  tenants
  which impedes the orderly demobilization of the war effort and that such
  dwellings  would  not  otherwise  be  provided  when needed for eligible
  tenants.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 10-B - War Demobilization Emergency Housing › 219-H - Tax Exemptions.

§  219-h. Tax exemptions.  The provisions of subdivisions one, two and
  three of section fifty-two of this chapter shall apply with equal  force
  and effect to emergency projects so long as such projects are controlled
  by  an  authority or a city, provided, however, that any bonds, notes or
  other obligations or evidences of indebtedness issued by an authority or
  a city shall at all times be exempt from all taxation by  the  state  or
  any subdivision thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 10-B - War Demobilization Emergency Housing › 219-I - Miscellaneous.

§   219-i.  Miscellaneous.     1.  All  actions  taken,  contracts  or
  commitments made, appropriations made, indebtedness incurred, all  bonds
  or   other  obligations  heretofore  issued,  including  any  guarantees
  thereof, and the proceedings authorizing the issuance thereof,  and  all
  things  done  by  or between an authority, city, or government, prior to
  the enactment of this article and subsequent to January first,  nineteen
  hundred  forty-six,  and  for the purposes provided in this article, are
  hereby ratified, confirmed and approved and are hereby validated in  all
  respects.
2.  To the extent that the provisions of this article are inconsistent
  with the provisions of any other article of this  chapter  or  with  the
  provisions  of  any  general,  special  or  local  law  or  charter, the
  provisions of this article shall be controlling.
3. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this article
  shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be  invalid,
  such  judgment  shall  not  affect,  impair  or invalidate the remainder
  thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence,
  paragraph, section or part thereof directly involved in the  controversy
  in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
4.  Before a city or an authority enters, without public advertisement
  for sealed bids, into a contract which but for the  provisions  of  this
  article would be required by general, special or local law to be made on
  sealed  bids  invited  by  public  advertisement, such city or authority
  shall obtain the approval of the mayor or  deputy  mayor  of  the  city.
  Within  twenty days after the execution of such contract, it shall cause
  to be published in the official publication of the city  a  notice  that
  such contract has been let and the name of the contractor.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 11 - Miscellaneous › 220 - Construction.

§  220.  Construction.    This chapter shall be construed liberally to
  effectuate the purposes hereof, and the enumeration of  specific  powers
  in this chapter shall not operate to restrict the meaning of any general
  grant  of  power  contained  in  this chapter or to exclude other powers
  comprehended  in  such  general  grant.  In  construing   this   chapter
  consideration shall be given to its purpose and intent, among others, to
  empower  an  authority  to do any and all things necessary to secure the
  financial aid of the United States Housing Authority and  the  state  of
  New York, or any department, agency or instrumentality of the federal or
  state   government,   in   the   undertaking,   planning,  construction,
  maintenance and operation of any project.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 11 - Miscellaneous › 221 - Separability Clause.

§  221.  Separability  clause.    If  any clause, sentence, paragraph,
  section or part of this chapter  shall  be  adjudged  by  any  court  of
  competent  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
  impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its
  operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section  or  part  thereof
  directly  involved  in the controversy in which such judgment shall have
  been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 11 - Miscellaneous › 222 - Application of Other Laws.

§ 222. Application of other laws.  For the purposes of the application
  of  the  lien  law,  the  general corporation law, and except as in this
  chapter otherwise provided, for the purposes of the application  of  any
  general,  special  or  local  law  imposing a tax, an authority shall be
  deemed a municipal corporation.  The term "public corporation"  used  in
  the  lien  law shall be deemed to include an authority. The term "public
  improvement" used in  the  lien  law  shall  be  deemed  to  include  an
  improvement  upon  real  property belonging to an authority and the term
  "public contract" in such law shall be deemed to include contracts  made
  by the authority; the secretary of the authority shall, for the purposes
  of  the  lien law be deemed to be the financial officer of the authority
  and the officer of the department,  bureau,  subdivision  or  commission
  having  charge  of  the construction of an improvement and being charged
  with the custody and disbursement of the funds applicable to the  public
  contract  or  public  improvement  under,  upon  or  for  which goods or
  materials are furnished or work was done.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 11 - Miscellaneous › 223-A - Discrimination Against Persons Who Have Certain Household Pets.

§  223-a.  Discrimination  against  persons who have certain household
  pets.  No person who has been adjudged to be legally blind or who  is  a
  severely  physically handicapped person or who is a mute shall be denied
  occupancy in a dwelling in any project or be subjected to eviction  from
  any  such dwelling on the sole ground that such person owns a dog or cat
  which will or does reside with such person therein,  provided,  however,
  that  if  after occupancy a health hazard results on account of such dog
  or cat, the public health officer  having  jurisdiction  may  take  such
  corrective measures as are appropriate.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 11 - Miscellaneous › 223-B - Discrimination Against a Person Who Is Deaf or Hard of Hearing Who Has a Hearing Dog.

§  223-b.  Discrimination  against  a  person  who  is deaf or hard of
  hearing who has a hearing dog. No person who is deaf or hard of  hearing
  shall  be  denied occupancy in a dwelling in any project or be subjected
  to eviction from any such dwelling on the sole ground that  such  person
  owns  a  hearing  dog  as  defined in section forty-seven-b of the civil
  rights law, provided, however, that if after occupancy a  health  hazard
  results  on  account  of  such  dog,  the  public  health officer having
  jurisdiction may take such corrective measures as may be appropriate.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 11 - Miscellaneous › 224 - Pending Actions or Proceedings.

§  224.  Pending  actions  or  proceedings.   This chapter or anything
  therein contained shall not affect or abate  any  actions,  proceedings,
  civil  or  criminal,  pending  at  the time when this chapter shall take
  effect, brought by, for  or  against  the  state,  the  state  board  of
  housing,   any   municipality,  authority  or  limited-dividend  housing
  corporation, under or  in  pursuance  of  the  provisions  of  the  laws
  repealed  by  this  chapter;  but all such actions or proceedings may be
  continued, prosecuted,  conducted  and  completed  notwithstanding  that
  functions, powers and duties of any agency, officer or party thereto may
  by  this chapter be assigned or transferred to another agency or officer
  and as if such  laws  were  not  repealed  but  continued  to  be  fully
  effective.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 11 - Miscellaneous › 225 - Saving Clause.

§  225. Saving clause.  The repeal of the laws as specified in section
  two hundred twenty-seven and any other provisions of this chapter, shall
  not affect or impair any contract or remedy, or  any  act  done  or  any
  right   accruing,  accrued  or  acquired,  taxes,  tax  obligations,  or
  exemptions from  taxation,  the  validity  of  or  rights  as  to  taxes
  collected  or  proceeds  thereof  or the validity as to any acts done or
  rights or exemptions accruing, accrued or acquired under any  tax  laws,
  general,  local  or  special,  or  any penalty, forfeiture or punishment
  under or by virtue of the laws so repealed and in existence prior to the
  time when this chapter or any section thereof takes effect, but the same
  may be asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted and for such purposes
  all of the laws specified in section two hundred twenty-seven are hereby
  continued in full force and effect.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 11 - Miscellaneous › 226 - Transfer of Records.

§  226. Transfer of records.  The division of housing in the executive
  department is hereby continued.  Notwithstanding the provisions  of  the
  state  housing  law,  the  term  of  office  of all members of the state
  housing board in existence prior to the enactment of this chapter and of
  officers and employees  of  such  board  shall  expire  on  July  first,
  nineteen  hundred  thirty-nine.  All of the files, papers, documents and
  property of the state housing board in existence prior to the  enactment
  of this chapter shall be transferred to the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 11 - Miscellaneous › 227 - Laws Repealed.

§  227.  Laws repealed.  Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto
  annexed, that portion specified in the last column is  hereby  repealed,
  except  as provided in sections one hundred ninety-three and two hundred
  twenty-five.
 
  Laws of                    Chapter                Sections
  1926 ....................... 823 .................. All
  1927 .......................  35 .................. All
  1928 ....................... 722 .................. All
  1930 ....................... 872 .................. All
  1931 ....................... 557 .................. All
  1931 ....................... 558 .................. All
  1932 ....................... 507 .................. All
  1933 ....................... 802 .................. All
  1934 .......................   4 .................. All
  1934 ....................... 540 .................. All
  1935 ....................... 310 .................. All
  1937 ....................... 207 .................. All
  1937 ....................... 738 .................. All
  1938 ....................... 218 .................. All
  1938 ....................... 270 .................. All
  1938 ....................... 395 .................. All
  1938 ....................... 461 .................. All
  1938 ....................... 489 .................. All
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 12 - Public Housing Drug Elimination Pilot Program › 302 - Legislative Findings.

§ 302. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that:
(1)  the  state  has  a duty to provide public housing that is decent,
safe, and free from illegal drugs;
(2)  public  housing  projects  in  many  areas  suffer  from  rampant
drug-related crime;
(3) drug dealers are increasingly imposing a reign of terror on public
housing tenants;
(4)  the  increase  in  drug-related  crime not only leads to murders,
muggings, and other forms of violence against tenants,  but  also  to  a
deterioration  of  the  physical  environment  that requires substantial
government expenditures; and
(5) local law enforcement authorities often lack the resources to deal
with the drug problem in public housing particularly  in  light  of  the
recent reductions in federal aid to cities.
2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 12 - Public Housing Drug Elimination Pilot Program › 304 - Eligible Activities.

§  304.  Eligible activities. A public housing authority or agency may
use a grant under this article for:
(1) the employment of security personnel in public housing projects;
(2) reimbursement of local law  enforcement  agencies  for  additional
security and protective services for public housing projects;
(3)  physical  improvements  in  public  housing  projects  which  are
specifically designed to enhance security;
(4) the employment of one or more individuals:
(a) to investigate drug-related crime on or about  the  real  property
comprising any public housing project; and
(b)   to   provide   evidence  relating  to  any  such  crime  in  any
administrative or judicial proceeding;
(5) the provision of training,  communications  equipment,  and  other
related  equipment  for  use  by voluntary public housing tenant patrols
acting in cooperation with local law enforcement officials;
(6) innovative programs designed to reduce use of drugs in and  around
public housing projects; and
(7)  providing funding to nonprofit public housing resident management
corporations and tenant councils to  develop  security  and  drug  abuse
prevention programs involving site residents.