Bill Text: NY S01721 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that no landlord shall deny access to a licensed professional engineer or licensed registered architect hired by any tenant or tenant association representing tenants of a multiple dwelling of six units or more for the purpose of conducting an inspection of a major capital improvement for which an application for a maximum rent adjustment has been filed by the landlord; provides that such inspection shall be conducted after notice to the landlord and during normal business hours; provides for the filing of such inspection report by such tenants with the New York city rent agency for consideration in such application's determination.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-02 - PRINT NUMBER 1721A [S01721 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01721-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1721--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 14, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER, AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Housing,
          Construction and Community Development -- recommitted to the Committee
          on  Housing, Construction and Community Development in accordance with
          Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the
          emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in  relation
          to  inspection  of major capital improvements for which rent increases
          are requested and in relation to extending the provisions of the  rent
          stabilization law
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (g) of paragraph 1 of subdivision g of section
     2  26-405 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by
     3  section 31 of part A of chapter 20 of the laws of 2015,  is  amended  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    (g) There has been since July first, nineteen hundred seventy, a major
     6  capital  improvement required for the operation, preservation or mainte-
     7  nance of the structure. An adjustment under this subparagraph [(g)]  for
     8  any  order  of  the  commissioner issued after the effective date of the
     9  rent act of 2015 shall be in an amount sufficient to amortize  the  cost
    10  of  the  improvements pursuant to this subparagraph [(g)] over an eight-
    11  year period for buildings with thirty-five or fewer units or a nine year
    12  period for buildings with more  than  [thiry-five]  thirty-five  units[,
    13  or].   No landlord shall deny access to a professional engineer licensed
    14  to practice in the state of New York or a registered architect  licensed
    15  to  practice  in  the  state of New York hired by any tenant, tenants or
    16  tenant association representing tenants of a multiple  dwelling  of  six
    17  units  or  more  for  the purpose of conducting an inspection of a major
    18  capital improvement for which an application for adjustment  of  maximum
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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