Bill Text: NY A07232 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits any increase in the average monthly rental of a property by a limited-profit housing company unless the appropriate local housing agency certifies that there exists no recorded violations against such property or that all recorded violations have been cleared, corrected or abated, and that such company is maintaining all essential services required to be furnished.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-30 - enacting clause stricken [A07232 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A07232-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7232
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 8, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. ROSA -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Housing
       AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to  prohib-
         iting  increases  in  maximum rents for dwellings unless all essential
         services are maintained and requiring certification  of  other  condi-
         tions
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Section 31 of the private housing finance law  is  amended
    2  by adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
    3    1-A.   NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER NO APPLICA-
    4  TION FOR AN INCREASE IN THE AVERAGE MONTHLY RENTAL MAY BE  FILED  UNLESS
    5  (A)  A CERTIFICATE OF THE APPROPRIATE DEPARTMENT OR AGENCY HAVING JURIS-
    6  DICTION THEREOF IS ANNEXED TO SUCH APPLICATION STATING EITHER THAT THERE
    7  ARE NO RECORDED VIOLATIONS AGAINST SUCH PROPERTY OR THAT ALL  VIOLATIONS
    8  THEREIN  RECORDED  AGAINST SUCH PROPERTY HAVE BEEN CLEARED, CORRECTED OR
    9  ABATED, OR A PORTION OF THE INCREASE IS  SPECIFICALLY  SET  ASIDE  IN  A
   10  TRUST  FUND  TO  CORRECT  ALL  VIOLATIONS;  AND (B) THE COMPANY OR OTHER
   11  APPLICANT CERTIFIES IT IS MAINTAINING ALL ESSENTIAL SERVICES REQUIRED TO
   12  BE FURNISHED AND WILL CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN SUCH SERVICES.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05328-01-3