STATE OF NEW YORK
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1849--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. RICHARDSON, MOSLEY, EPSTEIN, GOTTFRIED, TAYLOR,
ARROYO, DE LA ROSA, REYES, PICHARDO, D'URSO, BLAKE -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. COOK, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Housing -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to including the illegal conversions of dwelling units in the
definition of harassment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of paragraph 48 of subdivision a of
2 section 27-2004 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as
3 amended by local law number 184 of the city of New York for the year
4 2017, is amended to read as follows:
5 Except where otherwise provided, the term "harassment" shall mean the
6 illegal conversion of any existing facilities of any building, including
7 but not limited to, the subdivision of rooms, erection or demolition of
8 walls or the moving of any building from one location or position to
9 another in violation of any state or local law, ordinance, code, rule or
10 regulation relating to real property, buildings or multiple dwellings;
11 occupancy or use of dwelling units in a class A multiple dwelling that
12 would violate subdivision eight of section four of the multiple dwelling
13 law; or any act or omission by or on behalf of an owner that (i) causes
14 or is intended to cause any person lawfully entitled to occupancy of a
15 dwelling unit to vacate such dwelling unit or to surrender or waive any
16 rights in relation to such occupancy, and (ii) includes one or more of
17 the following acts or omissions, provided that there shall be a rebutta-
18 ble presumption that such acts or omissions were intended to cause such
19 person to vacate such dwelling unit or to surrender or waive any rights
20 in relation to such occupancy, except that such presumption shall not
21 apply to such acts or omissions with respect to a private dwelling, as
22 defined in paragraph six of subdivision a of this section [27-2004]:
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
24 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04438-02-9
