STATE OF NEW YORK
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10352
IN ASSEMBLY
April 29, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. MOSLEY -- 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. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a rent
5 guidelines board shall not increase the rent for any lease with a one
6 year term during and for one year following the conclusion of any state
7 disaster emergency declared pursuant to article two-B of the executive
8 law.
9 (2) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary , a rent
10 guidelines board shall not increase the rent for any lease with a two
11 year term during any state disaster emergency declared pursuant to arti-
12 cle two-B of the executive law, and for one year following the conclu-
13 sion of such state disaster emergency the maximum rent increase for any
14 lease with a two year term shall be two percent.
15 § 2. Section 26-510 of the administrative code of the city of New York
16 is amended by adding a new subdivision b-1 to read as follows:
17 b-1. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a rent
18 guidelines board shall not increase the rent for any lease with a one
19 year term during and for one year following the conclusion of any state
20 disaster emergency declared pursuant to article two-B of the executive
21 law.
22 (2) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary , a rent
23 guidelines board shall not increase the rent for any lease with a two
24 year term during any state disaster emergency declared pursuant to arti-
25 cle two-B of the executive law, and for one year following the conclu-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 sion of such state disaster emergency the maximum rent increase for any
2 lease with a two year term shall be two percent.
3 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
4 the amendments to section 26-510 of the rent stabilization law of nine-
5 teen hundred sixty-nine made by section two of this act shall expire on
6 the same date as such law expires and shall not affect the expiration of
7 such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.