New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle S - Division of Housing and Community Renewal › Chapter III - Low Rent Housing › Subchapter D - Accounting Manual For Public Housing Agencies › Part 1640 - General Information › Subpart 1640-5 - Administrative Expenses › Section 1640-5.2 - Inadmissible expenses

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Generally speaking, the following expenses [see also
						  Exhibits 9 and 9-NYCHA of Appendix S-6] will be deemed administrative expenses
						  within the prohibition of the statute:
(a) Salaries of executives and other
						personnel insofar as their time is not given to the planning, construction or
						management of a project.
(b)
						Expenses of investigations, surveys, studies or research as to housing
						conditions, vacancies, shortages, rents, income, etc., in a community if the
						same are not required in connection with the preparation of an application for
						a loan for a project or with the planning, construction or management of a
						project.
(c) Expenses of studies of
						local building and sanitary codes, tenement house laws and other codes and laws
						and the preparation of one or more new or amended codes or laws for the
						municipality and which are not required in connection with the planning and
						construction of one or more projects.
(d) Expenses involved in the study of pending
						or proposed legislation or of any action taken in connection therewith, which
						legislation does not affect the planning, construction or management of public
						housing projects.
(e) Expenses of
						programs of demolition, repair or alteration of substandard buildings not
						required in connection with the planning or execution of a project.
(f) The publication or dissemination of
						reports or information other than that required by the law or by rules and
						regulations of the commissioner or by contract, or which may be necessary or
						desirable for public use or information and to establish and maintain desirable
						public relations, all in relation to the planning, execution or management of a
						specific project.
(g) Expenses of
						litigation not connected with or affecting the planning, construction or
						operation of a project.
(h) The
						rehousing or relocation of tenants caused by conditions or events other than
						those relating to the planning and construction of a public housing
						project.
(i) The cost of office
						furniture in the main or central office of an authority needed in connection
						with the activities of an authority other than the planning and construction of
						a public housing project.
(j)
						Photographs of housing or other conditions in a municipality not necessary in
						connection with the planning, construction or management of a
						project.
(k) Travel and other
						expenses in connection with attendance at general meetings of housing, planning
						or other organizations, except with prior approval of the
						commissioner.
(l) The cost of
						subscriptions to periodicals and the purchase price of books and periodicals
						relating generally to housing, planning or other fields and not required
						specifically for the planning, construction or operation of a
						project.
(m) The expense of general
						project planning and site studies not applicable to the planning of a
						particular project.
(n) So much of
						the central office rent and miscellaneous expenses in connection with the
						maintenance and operation of a main or central office of an authority as is
						attributable to any or all of the activities hereinabove enumerated or to
						similar activities.