Bill Text: NY A00850 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits rent minimums in all mortgages regardless of when issued.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to judiciary [A00850 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00850-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 850 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to prohibiting rent minimums in mortgages The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section 2 283 to read as follows: 3 § 283. Rent minimums prohibited. No mortgagor on a loan secured prima- 4 rily by an interest in real property shall be charged a fee, forced to 5 default, or otherwise penalized by the mortgagee because the mortgagor 6 did not set a high enough rent on all or part of such real property. 7 All terms of a mortgage which would cause a mortgagor to be penalized 8 for not setting a high enough rent shall be void and unenforceable as 9 against public policy. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 11 mortgages regardless of when issued, renewed, modified, altered or 12 amended. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05517-01-1
