Bill Text: NY A00789 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring landlords of certain properties to furnish New York division of housing and community renewal with data pertaining to succession rights.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to housing [A00789 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00789-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           789
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 11, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JOYNER, COOK, GOTTFRIED, ORTIZ, BARRON, PERRY --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
        AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to succession  rights
          data
          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-h to read as follows:
     3    §  235-h.  Succession rights data. A landlord of a building containing
     4  five or more rental units shall submit a quarterly report  to  New  York
     5  homes  and community renewal in a form prescribed by the commissioner of
     6  such  agency  indicating  the  number  of  applications  for  right   of
     7  succession  such landlord received over the course of the previous three
     8  months, the date such applications were received, whether such  applica-
     9  tions  were granted or denied and, if denied, the reasons given for such
    10  denial.
    11    For the purposes of this section, "right of succession" shall mean the
    12  right to a rent stabilized renewal lease or protection from eviction  in
    13  an apartment under rent control redounding to the benefit of an eligible
    14  family  member  of the tenant having occupied such apartment immediately
    15  prior to permanently vacating such apartment  or  immediately  prior  to
    16  such tenant's death.
    17    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    18  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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