Bill Text: NY A06755 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires manufactured home park owners to provide a written justification for rent increases in excess of three percent of the current rent; provides that increases in costs to justify such rent increase for ordinary maintenance or repair to meet the warranty of habitability obligations must be shown to be necessary.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-5)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-31 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [A06755 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06755-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6755--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 29, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT, THIELE, KELLES, NORRIS, WOERNER -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Housing --  recommitted  to  the
          Committee  on  Housing  in  accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to increases of rent
          in manufactured home parks

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

     1    Section 1. Section 233-b of the real property law, as added by section
     2  12 of part O of chapter 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended by adding two
     3  new subdivisions 9 and 10 to read as follows:
     4    9. When a manufactured home park owner notifies the manufactured home-
     5  owners  in  the  park  of  a rent or fee increase and the increase is in
     6  excess of three percent above the current rent,  the  manufactured  home
     7  park  owner  shall provide a written justification for the increase that
     8  complies with this section  and  make  available  to  any  resident,  by
     9  request,  documentation,  including  official accounting documents, that
    10  show the costs and completion of work that  justify  the  rent  increase
    11  pursuant to this section.
    12    10.  Increases  in  costs  that  justify  a  rent increase above three
    13  percent pursuant to paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of subdivision  two  of
    14  this  section  shall  be shown to be above and beyond costs incurred for
    15  ordinary maintenance, including preventive maintenance, or repair of the
    16  roads, infrastructure, or other community property or services  to  meet
    17  the  community owner's warranty of habitability obligations under subdi-
    18  vision m of section two hundred thirty-three of this article.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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