STATE OF NEW YORK
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10265
IN ASSEMBLY
April 8, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, BARNWELL, CRUZ, SEAWRIGHT -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seven-
ty-four and the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to prohibiting the rent guidelines board from increasing
rents on certain leases during a state disaster emergency
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 4 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974,
2 constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-
3 four, is amended by adding a new subdivision b-1 to read as follows:
4 b-1. A rent guidelines board shall not increase the rent for any lease
5 with a one year term during any state disaster emergency declared pursu-
6 ant to article two-B of the executive law.
7 § 2. Section 26-510 of the administrative code of the city of New York
8 is amended by adding a new subdivision b-1 to read as follows:
9 b-1. A rent guidelines board shall not increase the rent for any lease
10 with a one year term during any state disaster emergency declared pursu-
11 ant to article two-B of the executive law.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
13 the amendments to section 26-510 of the rent stabilization law of nine-
14 teen hundred sixty-nine made by section two of this act shall expire on
15 the same date as such law expires and shall not affect the expiration of
16 such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16036-01-0
