§ 10. Division of housing and community renewal. There shall be in the executive department a division of housing and community renewal. Reference in this chapter or in any other general, special or local law to the division of housing shall be deemed to mean and refer to the division of housing and community renewal […]
§ 13. Disqualification of commissioner, officers and employees. Neither the commissioner, nor any officer or employee in the division of housing shall acquire any interest direct or indirect in a project or in any property then or thereafter included or planned to be included in a project, nor retain any interest direct or indirect in […]
§ 14. Powers and duties of the commissioner; generally. 1. In addition to the powers hereinafter granted, the commissioner, his counsel or any other officer or employee of the division specially designated by the commissioner shall have the following powers: (a) assist in the preparation of legislation and formulate regulations in relation to authorities and […]
§ 15. Actions and proceedings against the commissioner or the state; intervention by commissioner in certain actions and proceedings. With regard to duties or liabilities arising out of this chapter, the state or the commissioner may be sued in the same manner as a private person. In any action or proceeding affecting any state project […]
§ 16. Powers and duties of commissioner with respect to state projects. With respect to any state project, the commissioner shall have the following duties and powers: 1. To order such repairs of the buildings and structures constituting the project as may be necessary. 2. To order the authority or the municipality if the project […]
§ 17. Occupancy preference. The occupancy of any state project shall be restricted to persons of low income and preference shall be given to persons who live or shall have lived in the substandard or insanitary area or areas which have been or will be cleared, replanned, reconstructed or rehabilitated pursuant to a plan.
§ 18. Effects of breach or of acquisition of projects by third persons. In every contract for a loan by the state or for periodic subsidies by the state, or both, a substantial breach of the condition set forth therein providing for the maintenance of the project as low rent housing shall be defined in […]
§ 19. Rules and regulations. The commissioner shall have the power, from time to time, to make, promulgate, modify, amend and repeal rules and regulations to effectuate his powers and duties. No such rule or regulation except such as relates to the organization or internal management of the division of housing, shall be effective until […]
§ 19-a. Electronic lease regulations. 1. The commissioner, in consultation with the electronic facilitator as defined in section three hundred three of the state technology law, shall promulgate rules and regulations authorizing the use of electronic records or signatures on a voluntary basis by tenants for residential leases and lease renewals of units for which […]
§ 20. Annual reports. 1. The commissioner shall, on or before October first in each year, beginning in nineteen hundred ninety, submit one or more reports to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate and minority leader of the assembly on the activity […]
