Bill Text: NY A05692 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires owners of housing accommodations subject to rent registration to file an additional statement at three month intervals, until the unit is occupied.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - ordered to third reading cal.158 [A05692 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05692-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5692

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 22, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of  nineteen  seven-
          ty-four  and  the  administrative  code  of  the  city of New York, in
          relation to rent registration statements for vacant units

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision f of section 12-a of section 4 of chapter 576
     2  of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of
     3  nineteen seventy-four, as added by chapter 403 of the laws of  1983,  is
     4  amended to read as follows:
     5    f.  An  annual statement shall  be  filed  containing the current rent
     6  for each unit and such other information contained in subdivision  a  of
     7  this  section  as  shall  be required by the division.   The owner shall
     8  provide each tenant then in occupancy with a copy  of  that  portion  of
     9  such  annual  statement  as  pertains  to the tenant's unit.   For units
    10  registered as vacant on the date required by the division, an additional
    11  statement shall be filed containing the  current  rent  and  such  other
    12  information  contained  in  subdivision a of this section at three month
    13  intervals until such unit has a tenant in occupancy.
    14    § 2. Subdivision f of section 26-517 of the administrative code of the
    15  city of New York is amended to read as follows:
    16    f. An annual statement shall be filed containing the current rent  for
    17  each  unit and such other information contained in subdivision a of this
    18  section as shall be required by the division. The  owner  shall  provide
    19  each tenant then in occupancy with a copy of that portion of such annual
    20  statement  as  pertains  to the tenant's unit.   For units registered as
    21  vacant on the date required by the  division,  an  additional  statement
    22  shall  be  filed  containing the current rent and such other information
    23  contained in subdivision a of this  section  at  three  month  intervals
    24  until such unit has a tenant in occupancy.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately; and provided that the
     2  amendments to section 26-517 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the administra-
     3  tive code of the city of New York made by section two of this act  shall
     4  expire  on  the  same  date as such law expires and shall not affect the
     5  expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.