STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
April 24, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Housing
AN ACT to amend the multiple dwelling law, in relation to the definition
of interim multiple dwelling
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of section 281 of the multi-
2 ple dwelling law, as added by chapter 41 of the laws of 2019, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (c) The term "interim multiple dwelling", as used in this subdivision
5 shall also include buildings, structures or portions thereof that are
6 located north of West 24th Street and south of West 27th Street and west
7 of tenth avenue and east of eleventh avenue in a city of more than one
8 million persons which were occupied for residential purposes as the
9 residence or home of any two or more families living independently from
10 one another for a period of twelve consecutive months during the period
11 commencing January first, two thousand fifteen, and ending December
12 thirty-first, two thousand sixteen and subject to all the conditions and
13 limitations of this subdivision other than the number of units in the
14 building. A reduction in the number of occupied residential units in a
15 building after meeting the aforementioned twelve consecutive month
16 requirement shall not eliminate the protections of this section for any
17 remaining residential occupants qualified for such protections nor shall
18 a reduction in the number of occupied residential units in a building
19 during or prior to the period of the aforementioned twelve consecutive
20 month requirement eliminate the protections of this section for any
21 remaining residential occupants qualified for such protections, provided
22 that the remaining occupants' continuous residential use commenced prior
23 to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-five and that there
24 were three or more families living independently of one another for any
25 twelve consecutive months during the period commencing December thirty-
26 first, nineteen hundred ninety-five and ending December thirty-first,
27 two thousand sixteen. Non-residential space in a building as of the
28 effective date of this subdivision shall be offered for residential use
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 only after the obtaining of a residential certificate of occupancy for
2 such space and such space shall be exempt from this article, even if a
3 portion of such building may be an interim multiple dwelling.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
