Bill Text: NY S02278 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires vacancy leases and renewals of leases for rent regulated housing accommodations to be for a term of one year.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - PRINT NUMBER 2278A [S02278 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02278-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2278--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 22, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development -- recommitted to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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 providing that vacancy leases and renewals thereof for rent regulated housing accommodations shall be for a term of one year The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions a and (a-1) of section 10 of section 4 of 2 chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant 3 protection act of nineteen seventy-four, subdivision a as amended by 4 chapter 234 of the laws of 1984 and subdivision (a-1) as amended by 5 section 16-b of part A of chapter 20 of the laws of 2015, are amended to 6 read as follows: 7 a. For cities having a population of less than one million and towns 8 and villages, the state division of housing and community renewal shall 9 be empowered to implement this act by appropriate regulations. Such 10 regulations may encompass such speculative or manipulative practices or 11 renting or leasing practices as the state division of housing and commu- 12 nity renewal determines constitute or are likely to cause circumvention 13 of this act. Such regulations shall prohibit practices which are likely 14 to prevent any person from asserting any right or remedy granted by this 15 act, including but not limited to retaliatory termination of periodic 16 tenancies and shall require owners to grant a new one or two year vacan- 17 cy or renewal lease at the option of the tenant; provided, however, that 18 for vacancy and renewal leases which take effect on or after January 19 first, two thousand seventeen, such regulations shall require owners to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07554-02-6
