STATE OF NEW YORK
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5543
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 23, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, JAFFEE, MILLMAN, BOYLAND, SCHROEDER,
ROSENTHAL, BROOK-KRASNY, BENEDETTO, JACOBS, CYMBROWITZ, GUNTHER,
ORTIZ, LUPARDO, COOK, GALEF, O'DONNELL, LAVINE -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. ABBATE, BING, BRENNAN, COLTON, DESTITO, GABRYSZAK, GOTT-
FRIED, V. LOPEZ, MAISEL, McENENY, PHEFFER, ROBINSON, SCHIMEL, WEISEN-
BERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Aging
AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to the naturally occurring
retirement community supportive service program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 1 of section 209 of the elder
2 law, as amended by section 41 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws of
3 2010, is amended to read as follows:
4 (f) ["Naturally] A classic or housing-based "naturally occurring
5 retirement community" shall mean an apartment building or buildings, or
6 housing complex or complexes which:
7 (1) [was constructed with government assistance;
8 (2)] was not originally built for older adults;
9 [(3)] (2) does not restrict admissions solely to older adults;
10 (3) is a community in which at least two hundred fifty older adults
11 reside and such older adults comprise not less than forty percent of the
12 residents, or a community with at least five hundred older adult resi-
13 dents;
14 (4) [at least fifty percent of the units have an occupant who is an
15 older adult or in which at least twenty-five hundred of the residents
16 are older adults; and
17 (5)] a majority of the older adults to be served are low or moderate
18 income, as defined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban
19 Development.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5-a of section 209 of the elder law,
2 as amended by section 41 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws of 2010, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) the term [Neighborhood NORC] "Neighborhood NORC" as used in this
5 subdivision shall mean and refer to [a] residential [dwelling or group
6 of residential] dwellings, without common ownership, in a geographically
7 defined neighborhood of a municipality containing not more than two
8 thousand persons who are older adults, and reside in at least forty
9 percent of the units [and which is made up of low-rise buildings six
10 stories or less in height and/or single and multi-family homes] and
11 which area was not originally developed for older adults, and which does
12 not restrict admission strictly to older adults;
13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
