New York Consolidated Laws, Public Housing Law - PBG § 59. Disposal of records

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, any municipal housing authority or officer or employee thereof is hereby empowered to destroy, sell or otherwise dispose of any book, paper, map, photograph, microphotograph or other record regardless of its physical form or characteristic, which has been made, acquired, or received or is now in its custody and which the authority determines no longer has sufficient administrative, legal, fiscal, research or historical value to warrant its continued retention and preservation, provided the authority authorizes such destruction, sale, or other disposition.

2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following records of municipal housing authorities unless copies for retention are reproduced as provided in section sixty of this chapter: