Enacts the "pandemic self-storage act" which prohibits owners of self-service storage facilities from enforcing a lien held upon personal property stored at a self-service storage facility.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
November 6, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Dinowitz) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT in relation to enacting the "pandemic self-storage act"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "pandemic self-storage act".
3 § 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of article eight of the lien law,
4 no owner of a self-service storage facility, as those terms are defined
5 in section 182 of the lien law, shall enforce a lien held upon personal
6 property stored at a self-service storage facility by public or private
7 sale during the COVID-19 covered period.
8 § 3. For the purposes of this act, the COVID-19 covered period shall
9 include March 7, 2020 through the end of the state of emergency in the
10 state of New York plus one full year. For the purposes of this act, the
11 state of emergency period includes, but is not limited to, any period
12 referenced in executive order numbers 202, 202.8, 202.28 of 2020 and any
13 other executive order that closed or otherwise restricted public or
14 private businesses or places of public accommodation, or required post-
15 ponement or cancellation of all non-essential gatherings of individuals
16 of any size for any reason in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, within
17 the state of New York.
18 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD17546-02-0
