STATE OF NEW YORK
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7404
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 8, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMANOWITZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Aging
AN ACT to grant Julius Diamond eligibility for senior citizen rent
increase exemption at his previously frozen rent amount
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, Juli-
2 us Diamond, an individual who has been receiving a senior citizen rent
3 increase exemption since 1996, who for a period of one month, June, two
4 thousand fourteen, was ineligible for a senior citizen rent increase
5 exemption due to an increase in his annual income, and who now is
6 currently receiving a senior citizen rent increase exemption at a
7 significantly higher rent rate, shall be deemed entitled to a senior
8 citizen rent increase exemption at his rent rate prior to June, two
9 thousand fourteen. Further, Julius Diamond's landlord, Pickman Realty
10 Group, shall be entitled to a reimbursement for the rent arrears that
11 are currently owed to the landlord due to Julius Diamond's inability to
12 pay.
13 § 2. All costs associated with the implementation of this act shall be
14 borne by the New York city department of finance.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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