Bill Text: NY A09675 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to allowing occupancy of joint living-work quarters for artists in certain manufacturing buildings converted to joint living-work quarters whose residence therein began on or before December 15, 2021.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-07-21 - signed chap.420 [A09675 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09675-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         9675--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 28, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Housing -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the multiple dwelling law, in relation to  occupancy  of
          joint living-work quarters for artists

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

     1    Section 1. Section 276 of the multiple dwelling law, as added by chap-
     2  ter 734 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 276. Definition of an artist. As used  in  this  article,  the  word
     4  "artist"  means a person who is regularly engaged in the fine arts, such
     5  as painting and sculpture or in the performing or creative arts, includ-
     6  ing choreography and filmmaking, or in the composition  of  music  on  a
     7  professional  basis,  and  is  so  certified  by  the city department of
     8  cultural affairs and/or state council on the arts. For joint living-work
     9  quarters for artists limited  to  artists'  occupancy  by  local  zoning
    10  resolution,  any  permanent occupant whose residence therein began on or
    11  before December fifteenth, two thousand twenty-one shall  be  deemed  to
    12  meet  such  occupancy requirements under the same rights as an artist so
    13  certified in accordance with applicable law.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15032-02-2
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