Provides that all declarations of housing emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020 shall remain in full force and effect until the date that is two years after the expiration of the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order 202 of 2020.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8855
IN SENATE
July 29, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT providing for the continuation of certain declarations of housing
emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. a. For the purposes of this act, "declarations of housing
2 emergency" means:
3 (i) all determinations by the local legislative body of a city, town
4 or village of the existence of a public emergency pursuant to section 3
5 of the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four;
6 (ii) the public emergency requiring the regulation and control of
7 residential rents and evictions as provided in subdivision 3 of section
8 1 of the local emergency housing rent control act;
9 (iii) the serious public emergencies declared pursuant to sections
10 26-401, 26-501 and 26-502 of the administrative code of the city of New
11 York; and
12 (iv) the serious public emergency declared pursuant to section 1 of
13 the emergency housing rent control law.
14 b. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of the emergency tenant
15 protection act of nineteen seventy-four, sections 26-401, 26-414,
16 26-501, 26-502, and 26-520 of the administrative code of the city of New
17 York, and any other applicable provisions of law, all declarations of
18 housing emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020
19 shall remain in full force and effect until the date that is two years
20 after the expiration of the state disaster emergency, as such term is
21 defined in section 20 of the executive law, declared pursuant to Execu-
22 tive Order 202 of 2020, as amended, and as further extended by any
23 subsequent or future executive order, regardless of whether the vacancy
24 rate for the municipality in which the housing accommodation is located
25 or for the class of such housing accommodation within such municipality
26 is in excess of five percent.
27 § 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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