Relates to the date when the local legislative body in New York city may determine the continuation of an emergency; and relates to the continuation of the New York city rent stabilization law of 1969.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8406
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 16, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the local emergency housing rent control act, in
relation to the date when the local legislative body of a city having
a population of one million or more may determine the continuation of
the emergency, and to amend the administrative code of the city of New
York, in relation to continuation of the New York city rent stabiliza-
tion law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1 of chapter 21 of the laws of
2 1962, constituting the local emergency housing rent control act, as
3 amended by chapter 657 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as
4 follows:
5 3. Local determination as to continuation of emergency. The continua-
6 tion, after May thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, of the
7 public emergency requiring the regulation and control of residential
8 rents and evictions within cities having a population of one million or
9 more shall be a matter for local determination within each such city.
10 Any such determination shall be made by the local legislative body of
11 such city on or before April first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven and at
12 least once in every third year thereafter following a survey which the
13 city shall cause to be made of the supply of housing accommodations
14 within such city, the condition of such accommodations and the need for
15 continuing the regulation and control of residential rents and evictions
16 within such city, provided, however, that when the date by which such
17 determination shall be made falls in a calendar year immediately follow-
18 ing a calendar year during which a federal decennial census is
19 conducted, such date shall be postponed by one year. Such survey shall
20 be submitted to such legislative body not less than thirty nor more than
21 sixty days prior to the date of any such determination.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. Section 26-520 of the administrative code of the city of New
2 York, as amended by local law number 85 of the city of New York for the
3 year of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
4 § 26-520 Expiration date. This chapter shall expire on April 1, [2021]
5 2022 unless rent control shall sooner terminate as provided in subdivi-
6 sion three of section one of the local emergency housing rent control
7 law.
8 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.