N.Y. Public Housing Law § 16: Powers and duties of commissioner with respect to state projects

§ 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 is

undertaken or operated by the municipality, to do such acts as may be

necessary to comply with the provisions of this chapter, or any rule or

regulation adopted by the commissioner, or the terms of the contract for

state aid, or to refrain from doing any act in violation of any of the

foregoing.

3. To enforce his orders by mandamus or injunction in a summary

proceeding.

4. To permit the consolidation of two or more approved state projects

or the extension or amendment thereof or the consolidation of any

approved state project with a proposed project. In any such case, the

consolidated state project shall be treated as an original state project

and an application shall be submitted as in the case of an original

state project and the rents and costs of the consolidated project may be

averaged. Consolidation hereunder may be permitted regardless of whether

the state projects to be consolidated are contiguous or adjacent to each

other. Such contracts as may have been made with regard to approved

state projects may, upon consolidation of the projects, also be

consolidated and contracts for consolidated state projects shall be

subject to all the provisions of this chapter, governing original state

projects.