Bill Text: NY A02057 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Protects tenants in unlawful lofts ("interim multiple dwellings") from eviction on certain grounds (i.e., on grounds that the occupancy is unlawful because the building does not satisfy one or more requirements pertaining to such dwellings or because the owner has failed to satisfy one or more requirements pertaining to such dwellings or because a residential certificate of occupancy has not been issued for the building or because residential occupancy is not permitted by the local zoning resolution) by precluding owners who have recovered possession on the grounds of unlawful occupancy from making certain applications to any public body to legalize residential occupancy for a ten year period following the actual recovery of possession; provides that any approval, authorization, permit, etc. granted or issued by a public body in connection with an application made in violation of these provisions shall be void.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to housing [A02057 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02057-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2057
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Housing
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  multiple dwelling law, in relation to providing
          tenant protection in connection with unlawful interim multiple  dwell-
          ings
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The multiple dwelling  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 286-a to read as follows:
     3    §  286-a.  Tenant protection; unlawful interim multiple dwellings.  1.
     4  Definitions. For purposes of  this  section:  (i)  the  term  "building"
     5  includes  a  building, structure, or portion thereof, or a unit therein;
     6  (ii) the term "public  body"  includes  state  and  municipal  agencies,
     7  departments,  and boards, including local planning agencies and the loft
     8  board; and (iii) the term "specified grounds" includes the  ground  that
     9  (A)  the building or occupancy does not satisfy one or more requirements
    10  pertaining to interim multiple dwellings as set forth in this article or
    11  in any other provision of law or in regulation, (B) the owner has failed
    12  to satisfy one or  more  requirements  pertaining  to  interim  multiple
    13  dwellings  as set forth in this article or in any other provision of law
    14  or in regulation, (C) a residential certificate  of  occupancy  has  not
    15  been  issued  for  the  building,  or  (D)  residential occupancy is not
    16  permitted by the local zoning resolution.
    17    2. Rule. An owner who has recovered possession of a building  occupied
    18  by a residential occupant on the basis that the occupancy is unlawful on
    19  specified  grounds shall not make any application under any provision of
    20  state law or local law, code, ordinance,  rule  or  regulation,  to  any
    21  public  body for the purpose of, or that would have the effect of or aid
    22  in, legalizing or authorizing, any use of the  building  as  an  interim
    23  multiple  dwelling.  The prohibition set forth in this subdivision shall
    24  remain in effect for a period of ten  years  after  the  owner's  actual
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  recovery  of  possession.  Any  approval, authorization, permit, special
     2  permit, exception, exemption, certification, variance, zoning amendment,
     3  or any form of permission whatsoever that may be granted or issued by  a
     4  public  body  in connection with an application made in violation of the
     5  provisions of this subdivision shall be void.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall apply to build-
     7  ing owners who recover possession of a building as defined and described
     8  in section 286-a of the multiple dwelling law, as added by  section  one
     9  of this act on or after said date.