S 4368: Relates to establishing an on site supervisor or maintenance supervisor at city of New York housing authority facilities, including janitorial services to maintain workable locks on doors and repeals provisions relating to exemption to the housing authority.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4368 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development AN ACT to amend the public housing law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing an on site super- intendent or maintenance supervisor at city of New York Housing Authority facilities, including janitorial services to maintain work- able locks on doors; and to repeal section 27-2056 of the administra- tive code of the city of New York, relating to the exemption to the housing authority under such code The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5-a of section 402 of the public housing law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows: 3 g. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in this 4 chapter, or any general, special or local law, the city of New York 5 housing authority shall have the power to provide and maintain on site 6 superintendents and maintenance supervisors at all city of New York 7 housing authority facilities. Such site superintendent or maintenance 8 supervisor shall have the duty, in and about housing facilities, to 9 preserve the cleanliness and functionality of the facility and other 10 requirements the authority deems necessary. Appointments to site super- 11 intendent or maintenance supervisor shall be made in accordance with 12 applicable provisions of the civil service law and only persons who have 13 never been convicted of a felony, and who are citizens of the United 14 States shall be appointed site superintendent or maintenance supervisor. 15 § 2. Subdivision (a) of section 27-2052 of the administrative code of 16 the city of New York is amended to read as follows: 17 (a) Janitorial services means: Cleaning and maintenance, including the 18 making of minor repairs, such as workable locks on doors; the furnishing 19 of heat and hot water, where supplied from a central source; the removal EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05781-01-5 
 S. 4368 2 1 of garbage, refuse, ashes and wastes from the premises; and the removal 2 of snow, ice, dirt and other matter from the sidewalk and gutter. 3 § 3. Section 27-2053 of the administrative code of the city of New 4 York is amended by adding a new subdivision d to read as follows: 5 d. Janitors in city of New York housing authority facilities shall 6 take substantial actual or material steps towards remedying heating 7 issues and broken locks on doors within forty-eight hours of receiving 8 notice of such issue. 9 § 4. Section 27-2056 of the administrative code of the city of New 10 York is REPEALED. 11 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.