Bill Text: NY S03185 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits the state division of housing and community renewal to authorize investigations and inspections of certain dwellings by the department of housing preservation and development in NYC.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S03185 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03185-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3185
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 20, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, HAMILTON, MONTGOMERY, PERKINS -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Housing, Construction and Community Development
        AN  ACT  to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seven-
          ty-four, the emergency housing rent control law and the New York  city
          charter,  in relation to investigations and inspections by the city of
          New York
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision a of section 12 of section 4 of chapter 576 of
     2  the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant  protection  act  of
     3  nineteen  seventy-four is amended by adding a new paragraph 9 to read as
     4  follows:
     5    (9) The state division of housing and community renewal may  authorize
     6  the  department  of  housing preservation and development in the city of
     7  New York, or its successor agency, to exercise  any  of  the  division's
     8  powers under this act within the city of New York, pursuant to agreement
     9  with that department or agency.
    10    §  2.  Subdivision  1 of section 6 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946,
    11  constituting the emergency housing rent control law, as amended by chap-
    12  ter 337 of the laws of 1961, is amended to read as follows:
    13    1.   (a) The state division  of  housing  and  community  renewal  may
    14  authorize  the department of housing preservation and development in the
    15  city of New York, or its successor agency, to exercise any of the  divi-
    16  sion's  powers  under  this law within the city of New York, pursuant to
    17  agreement with that department or agency.
    18    (b) The commission is authorized to make  such  studies  and  investi-
    19  gations, to conduct such hearings, and to obtain such information as the
    20  commission  deems  necessary  or proper in prescribing any regulation or
    21  order under this act or in the administration and  enforcement  of  this
    22  act and regulations and orders thereunder.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    §  3. Section 1802 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7.  all  powers,  rights  and  duties authorized by and pursuant to an
     4  agreement with the New York state  division  of  housing  and  community
     5  renewal,  or its successor agency, under section twelve of the emergency
     6  tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and  subdivision  one  of
     7  section six of the emergency housing rent control law.
     8    §  4. Severability.   If any provision of this act, or any application
     9  of any provision of this act, is held to  be  invalid,  that  shall  not
    10  affect the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act,
    11  or  of  any  other application of any provision of this act or any other
    12  provision of any law or code amended by this act.
    13    § 5.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
    14  ments to section 12 of the emergency tenant protection act  of  nineteen
    15  seventy-four  made  by  section one of this act shall expire on the same
    16  date as such act expires and shall not affect the expiration of such act
    17  as provided in section 17 of chapter  576  of  the  laws  of  1974;  and
    18  provided  that  the  amendments  to section six of the emergency housing
    19  rent control law made by section two of this act  shall  expire  on  the
    20  same  date  as  such  law expires and shall not affect the expiration of
    21  such law as provided in subdivision 2 of section 1 of chapter 274 of the
    22  laws of 1946.