Bill Text: NY A02822 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that certain charitable and non-profit institutions shall not have the right to refuse to renew a lease of any current or future tenant occupying housing accommodations owned by such institution except where specifically authorized by law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to housing [A02822 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02822-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2822

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to extending rent stabilization to units occupied by tenants
          of housing accommodations owned by charitable  and  non-profit  insti-
          tutions

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Clause (i) of subparagraph (c) of paragraph 9  of  subdivi-
     2  sion  c  of section 26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New
     3  York, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i) the tenant's initial tenancy commenced after  the  owner  acquired
     5  the  property  and  the  owner  requires the unit in connection with its
     6  charitable or educational purposes including, but not limited to,  hous-
     7  ing for affiliated persons; provided that with respect to any unit occu-
     8  pied by a tenant whose right to occupancy commenced prior to July first,
     9  nineteen  hundred  seventy-eight  pursuant to a written lease or written
    10  rental agreement and who did not receive  notice  at  the  time  of  the
    11  execution  of the lease that his or her tenancy was subject to non-rene-
    12  wal, the institution shall not have the right to refuse  to  renew  such
    13  tenant  or  his or her successors, or any tenant thereafter, pursuant to
    14  this subparagraph unless such refusal or non-renewal is based  on  other
    15  grounds  specified  in state law; provided further that a tenant who was
    16  affiliated with the institution at the commencement of his or her tenan-
    17  cy and whose affiliation terminates during such tenancy shall  not  have
    18  the right to a renewal lease; or
    19    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
    20  ments to section 26-511 of chapter 4 of title 26 of  the  administrative
    21  code  of  the  city  of  New  York made by section one of this act shall
    22  expire on the same date as such law expires and  shall  not  affect  the
    23  expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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