Requires a mortgagor to provide notice of imminent foreclosure to his or her tenant or prospective tenant prior to he or she renewing or signing a lease agreement.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6524
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 25, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to requiring a mort-
gagor to provide notice of imminent foreclosure to his or her tenant
or tenants
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section
2 235-j to read as follows:
3 § 235-j. Imminent foreclosure. 1. As used in this section, "imminent
4 foreclosure" shall mean a mortgagor has received notice of foreclosure
5 delivered along with a summons and complaint, as required in subdivision
6 two of section thirteen hundred three of the real property actions and
7 proceedings law.
8 2. A mortgagor shall, prior to the tenant or prospective tenant either
9 renewing or signing a lease agreement, disclose to his or her tenant or
10 prospective tenant of imminent foreclosure.
11 3. A mortgagor shall send a copy of the original summons and complaint
12 by certified mail to a tenant or perspective tenant at least two weeks
13 prior to either renewing or signing a lease agreement.
14 4. A mortgagor who fails to disclose to his or her tenant or prospec-
15 tive tenant prior to either renewing or signing a lease agreement shall
16 pay a credit of five hundred dollars to the tenant or prospective tenant
17 against the agreed upon rental price of the lease agreement per failure,
18 in addition to any other existing equitable or statutory remedy.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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