Bill Text: NY A06843 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6843

Bill Title: Relates to the information to be included in vacancy rate studies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-09 - substituted by s1684a [A06843 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06843-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6843--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Housing -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of  nineteen  seven-
          ty-four, in relation to studies to determine vacancy rates

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1.  Section 3 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974,
     2  constituting the emergency tenant protection act  of  nineteen  seventy-
     3  four,  is amended by adding four new subdivisions d, e, f, and g to read
     4  as follows:
     5    d. When requested by a municipality or a designee,  as  a  part  of  a
     6  study  to determine its vacancy rate, owners, or their agent, of housing
     7  accommodations in the class of housing accommodations determined,  shall
     8  provide the most recent records of rent rolls and, if available, records
     9  for  the  preceding  thirty-six months.   Such records shall include the
    10  tenant's relevant information relating to finding the  vacancy  rate  of
    11  such  municipality  including  but not limited to the name, address, and
    12  amount paid or charged on a weekly, monthly, or annual  basis  for  each
    13  occupied  housing  accommodation  and  which  housing accommodations are
    14  vacant at the time of the survey and available for  rent.  Such  records
    15  shall  also  include  any housing accommodations that are vacant and not
    16  available for rent and provide the reason why such unit is not available
    17  for rent.
    18    e. Refusal by an owner or their agent to participate in  such  vacancy
    19  survey and cooperate with the municipality or a designee in such vacancy
    20  survey,  or  submission  of  knowingly  and  intentionally false vacancy
    21  information may be deemed cause to deny a rental permit  or  certificate
    22  of  occupancy  for  a housing accommodation. Such municipality may addi-
    23  tionally impose a civil penalty or fee on such owner or their  agent  of
    24  up to one thousand dollars.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05739-02-3

        A. 6843--A                          2

     1    f. A nonrespondent owner shall be deemed to have zero vacancies.
     2    g.  Identifying  data  or  information  shall be kept confidential and
     3  shall not be shared, traded, given, or sold to any other entity for  any
     4  purpose outside of such vacancy study.
     5    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.