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S07046 Summary:

BILL NOS07046
 
SAME ASSAME AS A09393
 
SPONSORGRIFFO
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §§711 & 749, RPAP L
 
Reduces the period of notice required to be given when a written demand for rent is served on a tenant after the tenant has defaulted in the payment of rent and the period of notice to be given serving a warrant issued pursuant to a final judgment of eviction from fourteen days to seven days.
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S07046 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7046
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     March 31, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
          Community Development
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  real  property  actions and proceedings law, in
          relation to reducing the period of notice required to be given when  a
          written  demand  for  rent  is served on a tenant after the tenant has
          defaulted in the payment of rent and the period of notice to be  given
          serving a warrant issued pursuant to a final judgment of eviction from
          fourteen days to seven days
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 711 of the real  property  actions
     2  and proceedings law, as amended by section 4 of part HH of chapter 56 of
     3  the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  The  tenant  has defaulted in the payment of rent, pursuant to the
     5  agreement under which the premises are held, and a written demand of the
     6  rent has been made with at least [fourteen] seven days'  notice  requir-
     7  ing,  in  the alternative, the payment of the rent, or the possession of
     8  the premises, has been served upon the tenant as prescribed  in  section
     9  seven  hundred thirty-five of this article. The [fourteen-day] seven-day
    10  notice shall append or contain the notice required pursuant  to  section
    11  two hundred thirty-one-c of the real property law, which shall state the
    12  following:  (i)  if the premises are or are not subject to article six-A
    13  of the real property law, the "good cause  eviction  law",  and  if  the
    14  premises are exempt, such notice shall state why the premises are exempt
    15  from such law; (ii) if the landlord is not renewing the lease for a unit
    16  subject  to article six-A of the real property law, the lawful basis for
    17  such non-renewal; and (iii) if the landlord is increasing the rent  upon
    18  an existing lease of a unit subject to article six-A of the real proper-
    19  ty  law above the applicable local rent standard, as defined in subdivi-
    20  sion eight of section two hundred eleven of the real property  law,  the
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11412-01-5

        S. 7046                             2
 
     1  justification for such increase. Any person succeeding to the landlord's
     2  interest in the premises may proceed under this subdivision for rent due
     3  such  person's predecessor in interest if such person has a right there-
     4  to.    Where a tenant dies during the term of the lease and rent due has
     5  not been paid and the apartment is occupied by a person with a claim  to
     6  possession,  a  proceeding  may be commenced naming the occupants of the
     7  apartment seeking a possessory judgment  only  as  against  the  estate.
     8  Entry  of  such  a judgment shall be without prejudice to the possessory
     9  claims of the occupants, and any warrant issued shall not  be  effective
    10  as against the occupants.
    11    §  2.  Subdivision  2  of section 711 of the real property actions and
    12  proceedings law, as amended by section 12 of part M of chapter 36 of the
    13  laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
    14    2. The tenant has defaulted in the payment of rent,  pursuant  to  the
    15  agreement under which the premises are held, and a written demand of the
    16  rent  has  been made with at least [fourteen] seven days' notice requir-
    17  ing, in the alternative, the payment of the rent, or the  possession  of
    18  the  premises,  has  been  served upon [him] the tenant as prescribed in
    19  section seven hundred thirty-five of this article. Any person succeeding
    20  to the landlord's interest in the premises may proceed under this subdi-
    21  vision for rent due [his] such person's predecessor in interest if  [he]
    22  such  person has a right thereto. Where a tenant dies during the term of
    23  the lease and rent due has not been paid and the apartment  is  occupied
    24  by  a  person  with a claim to possession, a proceeding may be commenced
    25  naming the occupants of the apartment seeking a possessory judgment only
    26  as against the estate. Entry of such a judgment shall be without  preju-
    27  dice  to  the possessory claims of the occupants, and any warrant issued
    28  shall not be effective as against the occupants.
    29    § 3. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 749 of the real proper-
    30  ty actions and proceedings law, as amended by section 19 of  part  M  of
    31  chapter 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
    32    (a)  The  officer  to whom the warrant is directed and delivered shall
    33  give at least [fourteen] seven days'  notice,  in  writing  and  in  the
    34  manner  prescribed  in this article for the service of a notice of peti-
    35  tion, to the person or persons to be evicted or dispossessed  and  shall
    36  execute  the  warrant on a business day between the hours of sunrise and
    37  sunset.
    38    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to actions
    39  and proceedings commenced on or after  such  effective  date;  provided,
    40  however, that section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration
    41  and  reversion  of  such subdivision pursuant to section 7 of part HH of
    42  chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, as amended,  when  upon  such  date  the
    43  provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.
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