Requires manufactured home park owners to provide a written justification for rent increases in excess of three percent of the current rent; provides that increases in costs to justify such rent increase for ordinary maintenance or repair to meet the warranty of habitability obligations must be shown to be necessary.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6199--C
Cal. No. 338
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 14, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, REICHLIN-MELNICK, MANNION, MARTUCCI, MAY --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development --
recommitted to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community
Development in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported
favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report,
ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
its place in the order of third reading -- again amended and ordered
reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading -- again
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to increases of rent
in manufactured home parks
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 233-b of the real property law, as added by section
2 12 of part O of chapter 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended by adding two
3 new subdivisions 9 and 10 to read as follows:
4 9. When a manufactured home park owner notifies the manufactured home-
5 owners in the park of a rent or fee increase and the increase is in
6 excess of three percent above the current rent, the manufactured home
7 park owner shall provide a written justification for the increase that
8 complies with this section and make available to any resident, by
9 request, documentation that show the costs and commencement of work that
10 justify the rent increase pursuant to this section, as applicable.
11 10. In order for an increase in costs to justify a rent increase above
12 three percent pursuant to paragraph (a) or (c) of subdivision two of
13 this section for costs incurred for ordinary maintenance, including
14 preventive maintenance, or repair of the roads, infrastructure, or other
15 community property or services, the community owner must demonstrate
16 that the work performed was necessary to meet the community owner's
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 warranty of habitability obligations under subdivision m of section two
2 hundred thirty-three of this article, and demonstrate that the rent
3 increase imposed was no more than was necessary to cover the actual and
4 reasonable cost of the work performed.
5 § 2 Section 233-b of the real property law, as added by chapter 654 of
6 the laws of 2019, is renumbered section 233-c.
7 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
