Bill Text: NY A01876 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires owners of housing accommodations subject to rent registration to file an additional statement at three month intervals, until the unit is occupied.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - referred to housing [A01876 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01876-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1876

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. ROSENTHAL, BURDICK, CHANDLER-WATERMAN, EPSTEIN,
          SEAWRIGHT, COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Hous-
          ing

        AN  ACT  to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seven-
          ty-four and the administrative code  of  the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation to rent registration statements for vacant units

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision f of section 12-a of section 4 of  chapter  576
     2  of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of
     3  nineteen  seventy-four,  as added by chapter 403 of the laws of 1983, is
     4  amended to read as follows:
     5    f. An annual statement shall  be  filed  containing the  current  rent
     6  for  each  unit and such other information contained in subdivision a of
     7  this section as shall be required by the  division.    The  owner  shall
     8  provide  each  tenant  then  in occupancy with a copy of that portion of
     9  such annual statement as pertains to  the  tenant's  unit.    For  units
    10  registered as vacant on the date required by the division, an additional
    11  statement  shall  be  filed  containing  the current rent and such other
    12  information contained in subdivision a of this section  at  three  month
    13  intervals until such unit has a tenant in occupancy.
    14    § 2. Subdivision f of section 26-517 of the administrative code of the
    15  city of New York is amended to read as follows:
    16    f.  An annual statement shall be filed containing the current rent for
    17  each unit and such other information contained in subdivision a of  this
    18  section  as  shall  be required by the division. The owner shall provide
    19  each tenant then in occupancy with a copy of that portion of such annual
    20  statement as pertains to the tenant's unit.   For  units  registered  as
    21  vacant  on  the  date  required by the division, an additional statement
    22  shall be filed containing the current rent and  such  other  information

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  contained  in  subdivision  a  of  this section at three month intervals
     2  until such unit has a tenant in occupancy.
     3    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately; and provided that the
     4  amendments to section 26-517 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the administra-
     5  tive code of the city of New York made by section two of this act  shall
     6  expire  on  the  same  date as such law expires and shall not affect the
     7  expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.