Amd §26-512, NYC Ad Cd; amd §6, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §5, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L
 
Requires property owners to dedicate certain residential units to rent regulated status following demolition and new construction or substantial renovation.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2252
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 23, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, BAILEY, KRUEGER, SEPULVEDA -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Housing, Construction and Community Development
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, the
emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer-
gency housing rent control law, in relation to requiring property
owners to dedicate certain residential units to rent regulated status
following demolition and new construction or substantial renovation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 26-512 of the administrative code of the city of
2 New York is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows:
3 g. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the
4 contrary, if all or a portion of the rent regulated units in a residen-
5 tial building are rendered uninhabitable or are vacated due to demoli-
6 tion and new construction or to substantial renovation conducted by or
7 on behalf of the property owner under any of the following circum-
8 stances, the property owner shall, upon completion of the new
9 construction or renovation of the building, dedicate to rent regulated
10 status an equal number of units, of sizes equivalent to those vacated or
11 rendered uninhabitable, at the rent amount allowable for the units
12 existing prior to the demolition or renovation:
13 (1) demolition or substantial renovation conducted after the property
14 owner filed an application for a building permit with the department of
15 buildings falsely reporting that no tenants occupied the building
16 proposed for demolition or substantial renovation, when tenants, in
17 fact, did occupy the building; or
18 (2) demolition or substantial renovation necessitated due to the
19 negligence of the owner and/or landlord; or
20 (3) demolition or substantial renovation necessitated by illegal code
21 violations.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. Section 6 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 h to read as follows:
4 h. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the
5 contrary, if all or a portion of the rent regulated units in a residen-
6 tial building are rendered uninhabitable or are vacated due to demoli-
7 tion and new construction or to substantial renovation conducted by or
8 on behalf of the property owner under any of the following circum-
9 stances, the property owner shall, upon completion of the new
10 construction or renovation of the building, dedicate to rent regulated
11 status an equal number of units, of sizes equivalent to those vacated or
12 rendered uninhabitable, at the rent amount allowable for the units
13 existing prior to the demolition or renovation:
14 (1) demolition or substantial renovation conducted after the property
15 owner filed an application for a building permit with the department of
16 buildings falsely reporting that no tenants occupied the building
17 proposed for demolition or substantial renovation, when tenants, in
18 fact, did occupy the building; or
19 (2) demolition or substantial renovation necessitated due to the
20 negligence of the owner and/or landlord; or
21 (3) demolition or substantial renovation necessitated by illegal code
22 violations.
23 § 3. Section 5 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946, constituting the
24 emergency housing rent control law, is amended by adding a new subdivi-
25 sion 10 to read as follows:
26 10. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the
27 contrary, if all or a portion of the rent regulated units in a residen-
28 tial building are rendered uninhabitable or are vacated due to demoli-
29 tion and new construction or to substantial renovation conducted by or
30 on behalf of the property owner under any of the following circum-
31 stances, the property owner shall, upon completion of the new
32 construction or renovation of the building, dedicate to rent regulated
33 status an equal number of units, of sizes equivalent to those vacated or
34 rendered uninhabitable, at the rent amount allowable for the units
35 existing prior to the demolition or renovation:
36 (a) demolition or substantial renovation conducted after the property
37 owner filed an application for a building permit with the department of
38 buildings falsely reporting that no tenants occupied the building
39 proposed for demolition or substantial renovation, when tenants, in
40 fact, did occupy the building; or
41 (b) demolition or substantial renovation necessitated due to the
42 negligence of the owner and/or landlord; or
43 (c) demolition or substantial renovation necessitated by illegal code
44 violations.
45 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that:
46 a. the amendments to section 26-512 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the
47 administrative code of the city of New York made by section one of this
48 act shall expire on the same date as such law expires and shall not
49 affect the expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of
50 such law;
51 b. the amendments to section 6 of section 4 of the emergency tenant
52 protection act of nineteen seventy-four made by section two of this act
53 shall expire on the same date as such act expires and shall not affect
54 the expiration of such act as provided in section 17 of chapter 576 of
55 the laws of 1974; and
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1 c. the amendments to section 4 of the emergency housing rent control
2 law made by section three of this act shall expire on the same date as
3 such law expires and shall not affect the expiration of such law as
4 provided in subdivision 2 of section 1 of chapter 274 of the laws of
5 1946.