Bill Text: NY A02803 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands the definition of "tenant" for the purposes of required notice during a mortgage foreclosure action.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-04-25 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [A02803 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A02803-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2803 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the real property actions and proceedings law, in relation to the definition of "tenant" for purposes of mortgage fore- closures The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 1305 of the real 2 property actions and proceedings law, as added by chapter 507 of the 3 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: 4 (c) "Tenant" shall mean any person who [at the time the notice5required by subdivision four of section thirteen hundred three of this6article] appears as a lessee on a lease of one or more dwelling units of 7 a residential real property that is subordinate to the mortgage on such 8 residential real property; or who at such time is a party to an oral or 9 implied rental agreement with the mortgagor and obligated to pay rent to 10 the mortgagor or such mortgagor's representative, for the use or occu- 11 pancy of one or more dwelling units of a residential real property. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law, and shall apply to 14 actions commenced on or after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08268-01-7