Provides that except in accordance with proper judicial order, or proper intergovernmental use, or as otherwise provided by law, it shall be unlawful for the commissioner of housing, the supervising agency, housing companies, and their officers and agents or any person who is permitted to inspect any application for admission or income report submitted during occupancy for surcharge purposes for a limited profit housing company, submitted in accordance with certain provisions of the private housing finance law relating to rentals and the selection of tenants, to divulge or make known in any manner the contents of such application or report; imposes fine not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2284
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- 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 private housing finance law, in relation to confi-
dentiality of contents of applications for admission or reports for
surcharge purposes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The private housing finance law is amended by adding a new
2 section 31-c to read as follows:
3 § 31-c. Income data; confidentiality requirement; and penalties for
4 violation. 1. Except in accordance with proper judicial order, or proper
5 intergovernmental use, or as otherwise provided by law, it shall be
6 unlawful for the commissioner, the supervising agency and housing compa-
7 nies, and their officers and agents or any person who is permitted to
8 inspect any application for admission or income report submitted during
9 occupancy for surcharge purposes, submitted in accordance with section
10 thirty-one of this article, to divulge or make known in any manner the
11 contents of such application or report.
12 2. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the publica-
13 tion of statistics so classified as to prevent the identification of
14 particular applications or reports.
15 3. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be punishable
16 by a fine not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07144-01-1
