Bill Text: NY S03906 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires short-term rental hosting platforms to require a short-term rental host to submit a license or permit where such host is offering a short-term rental in a municipality which requires such license or permit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S03906 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S03906-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3906 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 1, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 general business law, in relation to requiring host- ing platforms to require a short-term rental host to submit a license or permit where such host is offering a short-term rental in a munici- pality which requires such license or permit The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article 2 40 to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 40 4 SHORT-TERM RENTALS 5 Section 900. Definitions. 6 901. Short-term rental license or permit requirements. 7 § 900. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following 8 terms shall have the following meanings: 9 1. "Dwelling" means any building or structure or portion thereof which 10 is occupied in whole or in part as the home, residence or sleeping place 11 of one or more human beings. 12 2. "Short-term rental unit" means an entire dwelling unit, or a room, 13 group of rooms, other living or sleeping space, or any other space, made 14 available for rent by guests for less than thirty consecutive days. 15 3. "Short-term rental host" means an owner or tenant of a short-term 16 rental unit who rents such unit to guests. 17 4. "Hosting platform" means a person or entity who, pursuant to an 18 agreement with a short-term rental host: 19 (a) provides a platform for compensation through which unaffiliated 20 third party short-term rental hosts can offer to rent short-term rental 21 units; and 22 (b) collects a fee in connection with either: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08055-01-1S. 3906 2 1 (i) providing the forum in which, or by means of which, the offer of 2 occupancy of a short-term rental unit is accepted; or 3 (ii) providing the forum in which a short-term rental host can list or 4 advertise space in a short-term rental unit. 5 § 901. Short-term rental license or permit requirements. A hosting 6 platform shall require a short-term rental host who operates a short- 7 term rental unit which is located in a municipality which requires a 8 license or permit to operate such short-term rental unit to submit a 9 copy of such license or permit prior to providing services to such 10 short-term rental host. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 12 have become a law.