A02737 Summary:

BILL NOA02737
 
SAME ASNo same as
 
SPONSORFitzpatrick
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd S2, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L; amd S1, Chap 21 of 1962; amd S5, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd S26-504, NYC Ad Cd
 
Relates to the de-regulation of rent-stabilized housing accommodations; eliminates rent regulation for any regulated housing accommodation that becomes vacant on or after June 16, 2012; makes exceptions.
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A02737 Actions:

BILL NOA02737
 
01/20/2011referred to housing
01/04/2012referred to housing
05/08/2012held for consideration in housing
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A02737 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A02737 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2737
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 20, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  FITZPATRICK -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing
 
        AN ACT to amend the emergency housing rent control law, the local  emer-
          gency housing rent control act, the emergency tenant protection act of
          nineteen  seventy-four  and the administrative code of the city of New

          York, in relation to  the  de-regulation  of  rent-stabilized  housing
          accommodations upon vacancy
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1.  Paragraph (i) of subdivision 2 of section 2 of chapter 274
     2  of the laws of 1946, constituting the  emergency  housing  rent  control
     3  law,  as  amended by chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read
     4  as follows:
     5    (i) housing accommodations which  become  vacant  on  and  after  June
     6  sixteenth,  two  thousand twelve, provided, however, that this exemption
     7  shall not apply or become effective where the commission  determines  or
     8  finds that the housing accommodations became vacant because the landlord
     9  or  any  person acting on his behalf, with intent to cause the tenant to

    10  vacate, engaged in any course of conduct (including, but not limited to,
    11  interruption or discontinuance of essential services)  which  interfered
    12  with  or  disturbed  or  was  intended  to interfere with or disturb the
    13  comfort, repose, peace or quiet of the tenant in his use or occupancy of
    14  the housing accommodations; [and further provided that housing  accommo-
    15  dations  as  to  which a housing emergency has been declared pursuant to
    16  the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen  seventy-four  shall  be
    17  subject  to the provisions of such act for the duration of such emergen-
    18  cy;] or
    19    § 2. The second undesignated paragraph of subdivision 5 of  section  1
    20  of  chapter  21  of  the  laws of 1962, constituting the local emergency
    21  housing rent control act, as amended by chapter 82 of the laws of  2003,

    22  is amended to read as follows:
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03033-01-1

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     1    Notwithstanding  any  local  law  or ordinance, housing accommodations
     2  which [became] become vacant  (a)  on  or  after  July  first,  nineteen
     3  hundred  seventy-one [or which hereafter become vacant], but before June
     4  sixteenth, two thousand twelve shall be subject to the provisions of the
     5  emergency  tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, and (b) on or
     6  after June sixteenth, two thousand twelve shall  be  exempt  from  regu-

     7  lations  and  control;  provided,  however,  that [this provision] these
     8  exemptions shall not apply or become effective with respect  to  housing
     9  accommodations  which,  by  local  law  or  ordinance, are made directly
    10  subject to regulation and control by a city housing rent agency and such
    11  agency determines or finds that the housing accommodations became vacant
    12  because the landlord or any person acting on his behalf, with intent  to
    13  cause  the tenant to vacate, engaged in any course of conduct (including
    14  but  not  limited  to,  interruption  or  discontinuance  of   essential
    15  services)  which  interfered with or disturbed or was intended to inter-
    16  fere with or disturb the comfort, repose, peace or quiet of  the  tenant
    17  in  his  use  or occupancy of the housing accommodations. The removal of

    18  any housing accommodation from regulation and control of rents  pursuant
    19  to  the  vacancy  [exemption]  exemptions provided for in this paragraph
    20  shall not constitute or operate as a ground for the subjection  to  more
    21  stringent  regulation  and  control of any housing accommodation in such
    22  property or in any other property owned by the same  landlord,  notwith-
    23  standing any prior agreement to the contrary by the landlord. The vacan-
    24  cy  exemption  provided  for in subparagraph (a) of this paragraph shall
    25  not arise with respect to any rented plot or parcel  of  land  otherwise
    26  subject  to the provisions of this act, by reason of a transfer of title
    27  and possession occurring on or after July first, nineteen hundred seven-
    28  ty-one, but before June sixteenth, two thousand twelve,  of  a  dwelling

    29  located on such plot or parcel and owned by the tenant where such trans-
    30  fer  of title and possession is made to a member of the tenant's immedi-
    31  ate family provided that the member of  the  tenant's  immediate  family
    32  occupies the dwelling with the tenant prior to the transfer of title and
    33  possession for a continuous period of two years.
    34    §  3.  Subdivision  a  of section 5 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the
    35  laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of  nine-
    36  teen  seventy-four,  is amended by adding a new paragraph 3-a to read as
    37  follows:
    38    (3-a) housing accommodations which become  vacant  on  or  after  June
    39  sixteenth,  two  thousand twelve, provided, however, that this exemption
    40  shall not apply to or become effective with respect to housing  accommo-

    41  dations which the commissioner determines or finds became vacant because
    42  the  landlord  or any person acting on his or her behalf, with intent to
    43  cause the tenant to vacate, engaged in any course of conduct (including,
    44  but not limited to, interruption or discontinuance of required services)
    45  which interfered with or disturbed or was intended to interfere  in  his
    46  or her use or occupancy of the housing accommodations;
    47    § 4. Section 26-504 of the administrative code of the city of New York
    48  is amended by adding a new subdivision d to read as follows:
    49    d.  Notwithstanding  any of the provisions of this section or title or
    50  any other provisions of law, this law shall not  apply  to  any  housing
    51  accommodation which becomes vacant on or after June sixteenth, two thou-

    52  sand twelve provided, however, that this exemption shall not apply to or
    53  become  effective  with  respect  to  housing  accommodations  which the
    54  commissioner determines or finds became vacant because the  landlord  or
    55  any  person acting on his or her behalf, with intent to cause the tenant
    56  to vacate, engaged in any course of conduct (including but  not  limited

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     1  to, interruption or discontinuance of required services) which interfer-
     2  ed  with  or  disturbed or was intended to interfere with or disturb the
     3  comfort, repose, peace or quiet of the tenant in his or her use or occu-
     4  pancy of the housing accommodations.
     5    §  5.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that

     6  the amendments to the rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred  sixty-
     7  nine, made by section four of this act, shall expire on the same date as
     8  such  law  expires  and  shall  not affect the expiration of such law as
     9  provided under section 26-520 of the administrative code of the city  of
    10  New  York;  and  provided  that  the  amendments to the emergency tenant
    11  protection act of nineteen seventy-four, made by section three  of  this
    12  act,  shall  expire  on  the same date as such act expires and shall not
    13  affect the expiration of such act as provided in section 17  of  chapter
    14  576 of the laws of 1974, as amended; and provided that the amendments to
    15  the emergency housing rent control law, made by section one of this act,
    16  shall  expire  on the same date as such law expires and shall not affect
    17  the expiration of such law as provided in subdivision 2 of section 1  of

    18  chapter  274  of  the  laws  of  1946, as amended; and provided that the
    19  amendment to the local emergency  housing  rent  control  act,  made  by
    20  section  two  of this act, shall remain in full force and effect only so
    21  long as the public emergency requiring the  regulation  and  control  of
    22  residential  rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 2
    23  of section 1 of chapter 21 of the laws of 1962, as amended.
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