L.L. 1992/040
Enactment date: 6/17/1992
Int. No. 430
By Council Member Harrison (by request of the Mayor) and Council Member Ognibene; also Council Members Castaneira-Colon, Malave-Dilan, Foster, Horwitz, Koslowitz, Linares, Pinkett, Ward, Robinson, Robles and Watkins
A Local Law to amend the Administrative Code of the City of New York In relation to jurisdiction of the department for the aging over the senior citizen rent increase exemption program
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]
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§ 20. Any agency or officer to whom are assigned by this local law any powers and duties shall exercise such powers and duties in continuation of their exercise by the agency or officer by which the same were heretofore exercised and shall have power to continue any business, proceeding or other matter commenced by the agency or officer by which such powers and duties were heretofore exercised. Any provision in any law, rule, regulation, contract, grant or other document relating to the subject matter of such powers or duties and applicable to the agency or officer formerly exercising such powers and duties shall, so far as not inconsistent with the provisions of this local law, apply to the agency or officer to which such powers and duties are assigned by this local law. Any rule in force upon the effective date of this local law and promulgated by an agency or officer whose power to promulgate such rule is assigned by this local law to another agency or officer shall continue in force as the rule of the agency or officer to whom such power is assigned, unless and until such rule is superseded, amended, or repealed.
§ 21. No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time when this local law shall take effect, brought by or against the city or any agency or officer, shall be affected or abated by the enactment of this local law or by anything therein contained; but all such actions or proceedings may be continued notwithstanding that functions, powers and duties of any agency or officer party thereto may be this local law be assigned or transferred to another agency or officer, but in that event the same may be prosecuted or defended by the head of the agency to which such functions, powers and duties have been assigned or transferred by this local law.
§ 22. Nothing contained in this local law shall affect or impair the rights or privileges of officers or employees of the city or of any agency existing at the time when this local law shall take effect, or any provision of law in force at the time when this local law shall take affect and not inconsistent with the provisions of this local law, in relation to the personnel, appointment, ranks, grades, tenure of office, promotion, removal, pension and retirement rights, civil rights or any other rights or privileges of officers or employees of the city generally or officers or employees of any agency.
§ 23. Wherever by any provision of this local law functions, powers or duties are assigned to any agency or officer which have been heretofore exercised by any other agency or officer, all officers and employees in the classified municipal civil service who at the time when such local law provisions shall take effect are engaged in the performance of such functions, powers or duties shall be transferred to the agency to which such functions, powers or duties are assigned by this local law, without examination and without affecting existing compensation or pension or retirement rights, privileges or obligations of such officers and employees.
§ 24. No existing right or remedy of any character shall be lost or impaired or affected by reason of the enactment of this local law.
§ 25. All records, property and equipment whatsoever of any agency or part thereof, the powers and duties of which are assigned to any other agency by this local law, shall be transferred and delivered to the agency to which such powers and duties are so assigned.
§ 26. This local law shall take effect July 1, 1992.