S 10355 NY
Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept
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Summary
This bill amends the General Municipal Law to extend the record retention period for notices of defects received by city officials. Currently, cities are required to keep such records for five years after receiving them; this bill expands that requirement to ten years. The notices and their records remain public records accessible to the public. The act takes effect immediately.
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Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept from five years to ten years.
Sponsor (1)
- Steve Rhoads Republican · primary
Action history (1)
- May 15, 2026 REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT · upper
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S10355 Summary: BILL NO S10355   SAME AS No Same As   SPONSOR RHOADS   COSPNSR   MLTSPNSR   Amd §50-g, Gen Muni L   Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept from five years to ten years.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
10355
IN SENATE
May 15, 2026 ___________
Introduced by Sen. RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to expanding the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 50-g of the general municipal law, 2 as added by chapter 783 of the laws of 1957, is amended to add as 3 follows: 4 2. Where the statute, charter or local law requires that the written 5 notice be given to a specified city officer or employee the record shall 6 be made and kept by the person so specified. Where the statute, charter 7 or local law requires that the written notice be given to any of several 8 specified city officers or employees, or omits to specify the officer or 9 employee to whom the written notice shall be given, the record shall be 10 made and kept by an officer or employee designated for that purpose by 11 the governing body of the city. In the absence of such designation the 12 record shall be made and kept by the commissioner of public works of the 13 city or, if there be no officer of that title, by an officer exercising 14 corresponding duties. The record of notices of defects shall be a public 15 record. The record of each notice shall be preserved for a period of 16 [ five ] ten years after the date it is received. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15601-01-6
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