§ 21-324 Community involvement.
AC § 21-324
a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the department shall establish a process for the notification of new homeless shelters, other than short-term emergency homeless shelters. Such notification shall include elected officials and the community board for the district in which the proposed shelter is to be sited. Such process shall also include sending a notice annually during the first quarter of each calendar year, electronically and physically, to federal, state and local elected officials requesting potential locations for homeless shelters. Such process shall be posted publicly on the agency's website. b. The process developed by the department under this section shall also include conducting at least one public information session on the siting of any new homeless shelter. The department shall provide notice to the public of such information sessions on its website no later than fourteen days before the date such session is set to occur. Such public information session shall be held in the community district in which such proposed homeless shelter is to be located and shall allow the public to ask questions and submit comments. Such information session shall not be conducted in a manner that delays the siting of the proposed shelter. (2020 N.Y. Laws Ch. 383, 12/31/2020, eff. 12/31/2021; Am. 2021 N.Y. Laws Ch. 68, 2/16/2021, eff. 12/31/2021) Editor's note: Section 2 of 2020 N.Y. Laws Ch. 383 provides: "This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
