Bill Text: NY A00687 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the division of housing and community renewal to promulgate forms which a landlord of a rent regulated unit in a building with four or more such units shall be required to use when requesting additional information from a tenant who has made a request to sublet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to housing [A00687 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00687-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           687
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of A. COLTON, CYMBROWITZ, GOTTFRIED, RIVERA -- read once and  referred
          to the Committee on Housing
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the real property law, in relation to the landlord's
          request for information regarding a request to sublet
          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 226-b of the real property law, as
     2  added by chapter 403 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
     3    4.  With  respect  to units covered by the emergency tenant protection
     4  act of nineteen seventy-four or the rent stabilization law  of  nineteen
     5  hundred  sixty-nine  the  exercise of the rights granted by this section
     6  shall be subject to the applicable provisions of such laws. In the  case
     7  of  such  units, any request for additional information made pursuant to
     8  paragraph (c) of subdivision two of this section  shall  be  upon  forms
     9  promulgated  by  the division of housing and community renewal and shall
    10  include only those questions provided by the division. Nothing contained
    11  in this section [two hundred twenty-six-b] shall be deemed to affect the
    12  rights, if any, of any tenant subject to [title Y of chapter 51] chapter
    13  three of title twenty-six of the administrative code of the city of  New
    14  York or the emergency housing rent control law.
    15    §  2.  Within  thirty days after this act shall have become a law, the
    16  division of housing and community renewal shall promulgate such forms as
    17  shall be required to effectuate the provisions of section  one  of  this
    18  act. Such forms shall vary to accommodate the differing standards appli-
    19  cable  to  subletting under the various laws and codes governing sublet-
    20  ting.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  apply  to  sub-
    22  lease  requests  mailed  to  a  landlord  on  or after the date the form
    23  provided for by this act is promulgated by the division of  housing  and
    24  community renewal.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03987-01-9