Permits tenants or residents of limited profit housing, or persons acting on their behalf, to copy financial documents pertaining to their projects, subject to a reasonable charge therefor, the maximum of which shall be prescribed by regulation.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5814
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 15, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to the
copying of documents of limited profit housing companies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 32-a of the private housing finance law is amended
2 by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
3 8. Every tenant or resident, or a person acting on behalf of a tenant
4 or resident, shall be permitted to copy, by photographic means, any
5 document within the scope of this section pertaining to the project in
6 which such tenant or resident resides. A reasonable fee, subject to a
7 maximum therefor prescribed in regulations, may be charged for such
8 copies.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
10 it shall have become a law; provided that the commissioner of housing
11 and community renewal and supervising agencies, as defined in article 2
12 of the private housing finance law, are authorized to promulgate any and
13 all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to
14 implement this act on its effective date on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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