Bill Text: NY S02507 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes additional community districts in which pilot programs to address the legalization or conversion of certain basement and cellar dwellings can be established by local law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-21 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S02507 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02507-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2507

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 21, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SALAZAR, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Housing,
          Construction and Community Development

        AN  ACT to amend the multiple dwelling law, in relation to the community
          districts in which pilot  programs  to  address  the  legalization  or
          conversion of certain basement and cellar dwellings can be established
          by local law

          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 289 of the multiple dwelling  law,
     2  as  added  by  section 1 of part S of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    4. The program established by a local law  enacted  pursuant  to  this
     5  section  shall be applicable only within community districts selected by
     6  the local legislative body from  the  following  list:  Bronx  Community
     7  District  nine;  Bronx  Community District ten; Bronx Community District
     8  eleven; Bronx Community District  twelve;  Brooklyn  Community  District
     9  four; Brooklyn Community District five; Brooklyn Community District ten;
    10  Brooklyn  Community  District eleven; Brooklyn Community District seven-
    11  teen; Manhattan Community District  two;  Manhattan  Community  District
    12  three;  Manhattan  Community District nine; Manhattan Community District
    13  ten; Manhattan Community District eleven; Manhattan  Community  District
    14  twelve;  [and]  Queens Community District one; Queens Community District
    15  two; Queens Community District  three;  and  Queens  Community  District
    16  four. Prior to the adoption of the local law authorized by this section,
    17  but  no later than ninety days after the effective date of this article,
    18  the community board of a community district named  in  this  subdivision
    19  may  adopt and submit to the speaker of the city council a resolution in
    20  support or opposition of the inclusion of the community district in  the
    21  program established by the local law authorized by this article.
    22    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
    23  have been in full force and effect on and after April 20, 2024.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01006-01-5