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