Bill Text: NY A01778 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the division of housing and community renewal to promulgate forms which a landlord of a rent regulated unit in a building with four or more such units shall be required to use when requesting additional information from a tenant who has made a request to sublet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to real property taxation [A01778 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01778-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1778
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 11, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, V. LOPEZ, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by
         -- M. of A. COLTON, CYMBROWITZ, FARRELL, GOTTFRIED, JACOBS, MAYERSOHN,
         O'DONNELL, PHEFFER, J. RIVERA, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to
         the Committee on Real Property Taxation
       AN ACT to amend the real property law, in  relation  to  the  landlord's
         request for information regarding a request to sublet
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 226-b of the real property law, as
    2  added by chapter 403 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
    3    4. With respect to units covered by the  emergency  tenant  protection
    4  act  of  nineteen seventy-four or the rent stabilization law of nineteen
    5  hundred sixty-nine the exercise of the rights granted  by  this  section
    6  shall  be subject to the applicable provisions of such laws. IN THE CASE
    7  OF SUCH UNITS, ANY REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MADE  PURSUANT  TO
    8  PARAGRAPH  (C)  OF  SUBDIVISION  TWO OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE UPON FORMS
    9  PROMULGATED BY THE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL  AND  SHALL
   10  INCLUDE ONLY THOSE QUESTIONS PROVIDED BY THE DIVISION. Nothing contained
   11  in this section [two hundred twenty-six-b] shall be deemed to affect the
   12  rights, if any, of any tenant subject to [title Y of chapter 51] CHAPTER
   13  THREE  OF TITLE TWENTY-SIX of the administrative code of the city of New
   14  York or the emergency housing rent control law.
   15    S 2. Within thirty days after this act shall have become  a  law,  the
   16  division of housing and community renewal shall promulgate such forms as
   17  shall  be  required  to effectuate the provisions of section one of this
   18  act. Such forms shall vary to accommodate the differing standards appli-
   19  cable to subletting under the various laws and codes  governing  sublet-
   20  ting.
   21    S  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to sub-
   22  lease requests mailed to a landlord  on  or  after  the  date  the  form
   23  provided  for  by this act is promulgated by the division of housing and
   24  community renewal.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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