STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CYMBROWITZ  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing
        AN ACT relating to payment of assistance to owners  of  privately  owned
          residential housing within the city of New York
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
     2  any department or agency of the state or of the city of New  York  which
     3  provides  financial  assistance of any kind to owners of privately owned
     4  residential housing within the city of New York shall suspend payment of
     5  assistance to any such owners who  are  listed  on  the  New  York  city
     6  department  of  housing  preservation  and  development's official major
     7  problem owner list until all class C violations are removed by  the  New
     8  York  department of housing preservation and development.  Additionally,
     9  during such period when assistance is suspended,  owners  who  have  not
    10  corrected the class C violations and been removed from the problem owner
    11  list  for  such  violations shall not evict any tenant for nonpayment of
    12  rent or for violation of lease agreements that related in any way to the
    13  class C violations which are the subject of suspension of assistance.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08283-01-9