Bill Text: NY S06199 | 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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06199 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06199-Amended.html
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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06199 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06199-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6199--B Cal. No. 338 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 14, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, REICHLIN-MELNICK, MANNION, MARTUCCI, MAY -- 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 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading -- again amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading 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. In order for an increase in costs to justify a rent increase above 13 three percent pursuant to paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of subdivision 14 two of this section for costs incurred for ordinary maintenance, includ- 15 ing preventive maintenance, or repair of the roads, infrastructure, or 16 other community property or services, the community owner must demon- 17 strate that the work performed was necessary to meet the community 18 owner's warranty of habitability obligations under subdivision m of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10118-05-2S. 6199--B 2 1 section two hundred thirty-three of this article, and demonstrate that 2 the rent increase imposed was no more than was necessary to cover the 3 actual and reasonable cost of the work performed. 4 § 2 Section 233-b of the real property law, as added by chapter 654 of 5 the laws of 2019, is renumbered section 233-c. 6 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
