Bill Text: NY A07032 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to rent regulated and rent stabilized housing accommodations by tenants over sixty-two years of age.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to housing [A07032 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07032-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7032
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 3, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing
        AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of  nineteen  seven-
          ty-four  and  the  administrative  code  of  the  city of New York, in
          relation to certain housing accommodations by tenants  over  sixty-two
          years of age
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph 6 of subdivision a of section 5 of section  4  of
     2  chapter  576  of  the  laws  of  1974, constituting the emergency tenant
     3  protection act of nineteen seventy-four, as amended by  chapter  403  of
     4  the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
     5    (6)  housing  accommodations owned or operated by a hospital, convent,
     6  monastery, asylum, public institution, or college or school dormitory or
     7  any institution  operated  exclusively  for  charitable  or  educational
     8  purposes  on a non-profit basis other than those accommodations occupied
     9  by a tenant on the date such housing accommodation is  acquired  by  any
    10  such  institution,  [or] which are occupied subsequently by a tenant who
    11  is not affiliated with such institution at the time of his initial occu-
    12  pancy, or where the housing accommodations are occupied by a non-affili-
    13  ated tenant who is sixty-two years of age or older;
    14    § 2. Paragraph 10 of subdivision a of section 5 of section 4 of  chap-
    15  ter  576  of  the  laws  of  1974,  constituting  the  emergency  tenant
    16  protection act of nineteen seventy-four, is amended to read as follows:
    17    (10) housing accommodations  in  buildings  operated  exclusively  for
    18  charitable  purposes on a non-profit basis, unless such housing accommo-
    19  dations are occupied by a tenant who is sixty-two years of age or older;
    20    § 3. Subparagraph (b) of paragraph  2  of  subdivision  e  of  section
    21  26-403  of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to
    22  read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (b) a hospital, convent, monastery,  asylum,  public  institution,  or
     2  college  or school dormitory or any institution operated exclusively for
     3  charitable or educational purposes on a non-profit  basis,  unless  such
     4  housing  accommodations  are  occupied by a non-affiliated tenant who is
     5  sixty-two years of age or older; or
     6    §  4.  Subparagraph  (g)  of  paragraph  2 of subdivision e of section
     7  26-403 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended  to
     8  read as follows:
     9    (g) Housing accommodations in buildings operated exclusively for char-
    10  itable  purposes  on  a  non-profit  basis, unless such housing accommo-
    11  dations are occupied by a tenant who is sixty-two years of age or older;
    12  or
    13    § 5. The opening paragraph of subparagraph c of paragraph 9 of  subdi-
    14  vision c of section 26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New
    15  York is amended to read as follows:
    16    where  the  housing  accommodation  is  owned  by a hospital, convent,
    17  monastery, asylum, public institution, college, school dormitory or  any
    18  institution  operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes
    19  on a non-profit basis, unless such housing accommodation is occupied  by
    20  a tenant who is sixty-two years of age or older, and either:
    21    § 6. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of
    22  any  provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not affect
    23  the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of  this  act,  any
    24  other  application  of any provision of this act, or any other provision
    25  of any law or code amended by this act.
    26    § 7. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    27  have become a law; provided that:
    28    (a)  the  amendments  to  subdivision  a of section 5 of the emergency
    29  tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four made by sections one  and
    30  two  of  this  act shall expire on the same date as such act expires and
    31  shall not affect the expiration of such act as provided in section 17 of
    32  chapter 576 of the laws of 1974;
    33    (b) the amendments to section 26-403 of the city  rent  and  rehabili-
    34  tation  law  made by sections three and four of this act shall remain in
    35  full force and effect only as long as the public emergency requiring the
    36  regulation and control of residential rents and evictions continues,  as
    37  provided  in  subdivision  3 of section 1 of the local emergency housing
    38  rent control act; and
    39    (c) the amendments to subparagraph c of paragraph 9 of  subdivision  c
    40  of section 26-511 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the administrative code of
    41  the  city  of  New York made by section five of this act shall expire on
    42  the same date as such law expires and shall not affect the expiration of
    43  such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.
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