Bill Text: NY S03855 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that an owner of housing units in NYC, Westchester, Nassau and Rockland counties who fails to register a rent stabilized housing accommodation as otherwise required by the Emergency Tenant Protection Act or the Rent Stabilization Law shall be prohibited from collecting any rent therefor during the time when it is unregistered with the state division of housing and community renewal.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S03855 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S03855-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3855
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 7, 2011
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       Introduced by Sens. OPPENHEIMER, DIAZ, KRUEGER -- 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 administrative code of the city of New York and the
         emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in  relation
         to registration and repealing certain provisions of such code and such
         act relating thereto
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision e of section 26-517 of the administrative  code
    2  of  the city of New York is REPEALED and a new subdivision e is added to
    3  read as follows:
    4    E. AN OWNER WHO FAILS TO REGISTER A HOUSING ACCOMMODATION  SUBJECT  TO
    5  THE  PROVISIONS  OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE PROHIBITED FROM COLLECTING ANY
    6  RENT ON AN UNREGISTERED UNIT FOR ANY PERIOD DURING WHICH IT IS  UNREGIS-
    7  TERED.
    8    S  2. Subdivision e of section 12-a of section 4 of chapter 576 of the
    9  laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of  nine-
   10  teen  seventy-four, is REPEALED and a new subdivision e is added to read
   11  as follows:
   12    E. AN OWNER WHO FAILS TO REGISTER A HOUSING ACCOMMODATION  SUBJECT  TO
   13  THE  PROVISIONS  OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE PROHIBITED FROM COLLECTING ANY
   14  RENT ON AN UNREGISTERED UNIT FOR ANY PERIOD DURING WHICH IT IS  UNREGIS-
   15  TERED.
   16    S  3.  This act shall take effect immediately provided that the amend-
   17  ment to section 26-517 of the rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred
   18  sixty-nine made by section one of this act shall expire on the same date
   19  as such law expires and shall not affect the expiration of such  law  as
   20  provided  under section 26-520 of such law and provided further that the
   21  amendment to section 12-a of the  emergency  tenant  protection  act  of
   22  nineteen  seventy-four  made  by section two of this act shall expire on
   23  the same date as such act expires and shall not affect the expiration of
   24  such act as provided in section 17 of chapter 576 of the laws  of  1974,
   25  as amended.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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