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S10355 • 2025

Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept

Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept

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Sponsor
Steve Rhoads
Last action
2026-05-15
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept

Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept from five years to ten years.

What This Bill Does

  • Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept from five years to ten years.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-15 Senate

    REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Official Summary Text

Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept
Expands the amount of time a notice of defect must be kept from five years to ten years.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          10355

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      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