Bill Text: NY A06843 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the information to be included in vacancy rate studies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-09 - substituted by s1684a [A06843 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6843

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of  nineteen  seven-
          ty-four, in relation to studies to determine vacancy rates

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

     1    Section 1.  Section 3 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974,
     2  constituting the emergency tenant protection act  of  nineteen  seventy-
     3  four,  is amended by adding four new subdivisions d, e, f, and g to read
     4  as follows:
     5    d. When requested by a municipality or a designee,  as  a  part  of  a
     6  study  to  determine  its vacancy rate, residential residents, including
     7  residential tenants, residential rental property owners,  operators,  or
     8  managers,  and  homeowners  shall  provide current rent rolls of records
     9  and, if available, records for the past three years.  Such records shall
    10  include the tenant's relevant information relating to finding the vacan-
    11  cy rate of such municipality including but  not  limited  to  the  name,
    12  address,  and  amount  paid  or  charged on a weekly, monthly, or annual
    13  basis for each unit or home and which units  are  currently  vacant  and
    14  move in ready or under construction.
    15    e. Refusal by a residential rental property owner, operator, or manag-
    16  er  or  a  homeowner  to participate in such vacancy study and cooperate
    17  with the municipality or a designee in such vacancy study, or submission
    18  of knowingly and intentionally false vacancy information may  be  deemed
    19  cause  to  deny a rental permit or certificate of occupancy for a rental
    20  unit.  Such municipality may additionally impose a fine or fee  on  such
    21  residential  rental property owner, operator, or manager or homeowner of
    22  up to one thousand dollars.
    23    f. A nonrespondent landlord or rental property owner shall  be  deemed
    24  to have a zero vacancy rate.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05739-01-3
        A. 6843                             2

     1    g.  Identifying  data  or  information  shall be kept confidential and
     2  shall not be shared, traded, given, or sold to any other entity for  any
     3  purpose outside of such vacancy study. Disaggregate data and information
     4  may be shared with other governmental agencies including but not limited
     5  to the Office of Court Administration.
     6    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.