STATE OF NEW YORK
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6276
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 3, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to requirements for a building owner to refuse to renew a
lease when the building is to be demolished
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (a) of paragraph 9 of subdivision c of section
2 26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (a) where he or she establishes to the satisfaction of the division of
5 housing and community renewal that he or she: (i) intends in good faith
6 to demolish the building [and] and construct a new building; (ii) has
7 obtained from the department of buildings a permit [therefor from the
8 department of buildings] for such demolition project and approved plans
9 for the new building construction project; and (iii) has the financial
10 ability to complete same; or
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be applicable to
12 any proceeding currently pending before the division of housing and
13 community renewal or to any appeal from any such proceeding; provided
14 that the amendments to subparagraph (a) of paragraph 9 of subdivision c
15 of section 26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New York
16 made by section one of this act shall expire on the same date as such
17 section expires and shall not affect the expiration of such section as
18 provided in section 26-520 of such code.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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