What's happening
This bill requires New York City to use its infrastructure to address and mitigate property damage from environmental crises it helped cause.
Why it matters
Holds NYC accountable for its environmental impacts. This bill would obligate New York City to take responsibility when its actions or neglect have significantly contributed to environmental crises that damage property and threaten public health.
Mandates use of city-controlled infrastructure for mitigation. If the city or its departments own or control infrastructure that could help alleviate the resulting damage, the law would require them to actively use these resources to address and lessen the harm.
Requires a transparent, measurable response. The city must develop and implement a plan that is clear, objective, and quantifiable, ensuring that affected residents receive timely and verifiable relief.
Potentially sets precedent for municipal liability. By specifying that the city's own actions or omissions can trigger this obligation, the bill could increase the legal and practical pressure on municipalities to prevent, acknowledge, and remedy their environmental impacts more proactively.
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NYC Must Fix City-Caused Damage
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Sponsors
7 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Fix City-Caused Property Damage
In Senate Committee · Cities · Sponsor Leroy Comrie
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3938
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN, VANEL, CRESPO, DICKENS, ABBATE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT relating to requiring the city of New York to mitigate certain property damage caused by environmental issues which are caused by acts or omissions of such municipality
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. In the city of New York, where the municipality or its departments by acts of omission or commission either creates or greatly contributes to an environmental crisis which impacts a sizable segment of its citizens, creating property damage and threatening residents' health, and where such municipality or its departments either owns or controls the infrastructure that can substantially mitigate this environmental issue and bring relief to those residents, then such municipality shall be required and directed to utilize that infrastructure to provide a clear, objective and quantifiable plan to obtain relief in a timely manner.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06204-01-9
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