Bill Text: NY A09460 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the termination of tenancy in housing occupied by substantially all persons over sixty-five years of age and/or persons with disabilities without cause; prohibits increasing rent more than one percent above the percentage change.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-07 - referred to aging [A09460 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09460-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9460
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 7, 2016
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BUCHWALD, MAYER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Aging
        AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation  to  prohibiting  the
          termination  of tenancy in certain housing occupied by senior citizens
          and/or persons with disabilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  real property law is amended by adding a new section
     2  228-a to read as follows:
     3    § 228-a. Tenancy in rental buildings; senior  citizens;  persons  with
     4  disabilities.   1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section two hundred
     5  twenty-eight of this article or any other provision to the contrary,  if
     6  substantially  all of the lessees or tenants occupying units in a rental
     7  building are over sixty-five years of age and/or are persons with  disa-
     8  bilities,  the  lessor  may  not  terminate or fail to renew a lease for
     9  premises in such building or terminate a tenancy at will or  at  suffer-
    10  ance,  except  for  cause  such  as the non-payment of rent, without the
    11  prior approval of a court of competent jurisdiction.
    12    2. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, a lessor of a rental
    13  building where substantially all of the  lessees  or  tenants  occupying
    14  units in the rental building are over sixty-five years of age and/or are
    15  persons  with  disabilities  may  not  increase  the rent in such rental
    16  building by more than one percent above the  percentage  change  in  the
    17  consumer  price  index  since  the  start  of the tenancy or most recent
    18  renewal, whichever is more recent at the time of renewal of a lease  and
    19  may not increase the rent more than one time annually.
    20    3.  Every  lessor  of  rental buildings where substantially all of the
    21  lessees or tenants occupying units are  over  sixty-five  years  of  age
    22  and/or  are  persons with disabilities, shall notify prospective tenants
    23  of the provision of this section. Such notice shall be in writing,  upon
    24  the  rental application, and shall include, in plain and simple English,
    25  in conspicuous print of at least eighteen point type, an explanation  of
    26  a  tenant's  rights under this section and all other applicable require-
    27  ments and duties relating thereto.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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