Bill Text: NY S07553 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7553 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the NYC housing authority to include a notice informing a prospective tenant or tenant of the ability to add legal occupants to the lease or renewal lease and to provide a form to add the additional legal occupants.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S07553 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07553-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7553
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 15, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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 public housing law, in relation to requiring that
         the New York city housing  authority  include  a  notice  informing  a
         prospective  tenant or tenant of the ability to add legal occupants to
         the lease or renewal lease, and provide, upon request, a tenant with a
         form to add additional legal occupants
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivisions 7, 8 and 9 of section 402 of the public hous-
    2  ing law are relettered subdivisions 8, 9 and 10 and a new subdivision  7
    3  is added to read as follows:
    4    7.  A.  THE  NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY SHALL INCLUDE, ALONG WITH
    5  EVERY LEASE OR RENEWAL LEASE OFFERED TO A PROSPECTIVE TENANT OR  CURRENT
    6  TENANT,   A   SEPARATE,  CLEAR  AND  CONSPICUOUS  NOTICE,  IN  AT  LEAST
    7  SIXTEEN-POINT BOLDFACE TYPE, CONCERNING  THE  TENANT'S  ABILITY  TO  ADD
    8  ADDITIONAL LEGAL OCCUPANTS TO THE LEASE AGREEMENT.
    9    B.  UPON RECEIPT OF A TENANT'S REQUEST FOR A FORM TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL
   10  LEGAL OCCUPANT, THE AUTHORITY SHALL,  WITHIN  SEVEN  DAYS,  PROVIDE  THE
   11  TENANT  WITH  THE  APPROPRIATE  FORM,  ALONG WITH A NOTICE INFORMING THE
   12  TENANT OF THE RIGHT TO CONTEST THE DENIAL OF  ANY  OCCUPANCY  PERMISSION
   13  REQUEST.
   14    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   15  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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