Bill Text: NY S06515 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires one year notice for any increase in manufactured home park rental fees, and requires a meeting to be held if such increase would be greater than the percentage increase in the consumer price index.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S06515 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06515-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6515

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to manufactured  home
          park rental fee increases

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subdivision g of section  233  of  the  real
     2  property  law, as amended by chapter 566 of the laws of 1996, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    3. (i) No fees, charges, assessments or rental fees may  be  increased
     5  by  manufactured home park owner or operator without specifying the date
     6  of implementation of said fees,  charges,  assessments  or  rental  fees
     7  which date shall be no less than:
     8    (A)  ninety  days  after  written  notice  to  all  manufactured  home
     9  tenants[.] in the case of increases to fees, charges or assessments; and
    10    (B) one year notice by personal service or certified mail to all manu-
    11  factured home tenants in the case of increases to rental fees.
    12    (ii) If a rental fee increase is greater than the percentage  increase
    13  of  the  consumer price index as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statis-
    14  tics of the United States Department of  Labor,  the  manufactured  home
    15  park owner shall hold a meeting with all manufactured home tenants with-
    16  in  forty-five days of the notice required by clause (B) of subparagraph
    17  (i) of this paragraph. The meeting shall be  held  at  the  manufactured
    18  home  park  community  center,  or if there is no community center or if
    19  such community center cannot accommodate such meeting, the meeting shall
    20  be held in a handicapped accessible facility that is no  more  than  two
    21  miles  from  the  manufactured home park. The date, time and location of
    22  this meeting shall be included with the notice to increase  rental  fees
    23  required by clause (B) of subparagraph (i) of this paragraph.
    24    (iii) Failure on the part of the manufactured home park owner or oper-
    25  ator  to  fully  disclose all fees, charges or assessments shall prevent

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07847-01-9
        S. 6515                             2

     1  the manufactured home park owner or operator from collecting said  fees,
     2  charges  or  assessments, and refusal by the manufactured home tenant to
     3  pay any undisclosed charges shall not be used by the  manufactured  home
     4  park owner or operator as a cause for eviction in any court of law.
     5    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.