Bill Text: NY S01684 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-12-08 - APPROVAL MEMO.44 [S01684 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01684-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1684--A
            Cal. No. 885

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  HINCHEY,  BROUK, COONEY -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing,
          Construction and Community Development -- reported favorably from said
          committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered  to  a  third
          reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted, retaining its place in the
          order of third reading

        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, owners, or their agent, of housing
     7  accommodations in the class of housing accommodations determined,  shall
     8  provide the most recent records of rent rolls and, if available, records
     9  for  the  preceding  thirty-six months.   Such records shall include the
    10  tenant's relevant information relating to finding the  vacancy  rate  of
    11  such  municipality  including  but not limited to the name, address, and
    12  amount paid or charged on a weekly, monthly, or annual  basis  for  each
    13  occupied  housing  accommodation  and  which  housing accommodations are
    14  vacant at the time of the survey and available for  rent.  Such  records
    15  shall  also  include  any housing accommodations that are vacant and not
    16  available for rent and provide the reason why such unit is not available
    17  for rent.
    18    e. Refusal by an owner or their agent to participate in  such  vacancy
    19  survey and cooperate with the municipality or a designee in such vacancy
    20  survey,  or  submission  of  knowingly  and  intentionally false vacancy
    21  information may be deemed cause to deny a rental permit  or  certificate

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  of  occupancy  for  a housing accommodation. Such municipality may addi-
     2  tionally impose a civil penalty or fee on such owner or their  agent  of
     3  up to one thousand dollars.
     4    f. A nonrespondent owner shall be deemed to have zero vacancies.
     5    g.  Identifying  data  or  information  shall be kept confidential and
     6  shall not be shared, traded, given, or sold to any other entity for  any
     7  purpose outside of such vacancy study.
     8    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.