Bill Text: NY A07702 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to rent regulated and rent stabilized housing accommodations by tenants over sixty-two years of age or a tenant with a disability.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to housing [A07702 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07702-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7702 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 16, 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 or tenants with a disability 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 or by a non-affiliat- 14 ed tenant who suffers from a disability as defined in subdivision 15 twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law; 16 § 2. Paragraph 10 of subdivision a of section 5 of section 4 of chap- 17 ter 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant 18 protection act of nineteen seventy-four, is amended to read as follows: 19 (10) housing accommodations in buildings operated exclusively for 20 charitable purposes on a non-profit basis, unless such housing accommo- 21 dations are occupied by a tenant who is sixty-two years of age or older 22 or by a non-affiliated tenant who suffers from a disability as defined EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02056-01-9A. 7702 2 1 in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the exec- 2 utive law; 3 § 3. Subparagraph (b) of paragraph 2 of subdivision e of section 4 26-403 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to 5 read as follows: 6 (b) a hospital, convent, monastery, asylum, public institution, or 7 college or school dormitory or any institution operated exclusively for 8 charitable or educational purposes on a non-profit basis, unless such 9 housing accommodations are occupied by a non-affiliated tenant who is 10 sixty-two years of age or older or by a non-affiliated tenant who 11 suffers from a disability as defined in subdivision twenty-one of 12 section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law; or 13 § 4. Subparagraph (g) of paragraph 2 of subdivision e of section 14 26-403 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to 15 read as follows: 16 (g) Housing accommodations in buildings operated exclusively for char- 17 itable purposes on a non-profit basis, unless such housing accommo- 18 dations are occupied by a tenant who is sixty-two years of age or older 19 or a tenant who suffers from a disability as defined in subdivision 20 twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law; or 21 § 5. The opening paragraph of subparagraph c of paragraph 9 of subdi- 22 vision c of section 26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New 23 York is amended to read as follows: 24 where the housing accommodation is owned by a hospital, convent, 25 monastery, asylum, public institution, college, school dormitory or any 26 institution operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes 27 on a non-profit basis, unless such housing accommodation is occupied by 28 a tenant who is sixty-two years of age or older or a tenant who suffers 29 from a disability as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section two 30 hundred ninety-two of the executive law, and either: 31 § 6. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of 32 any provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not affect 33 the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act, any 34 other application of any provision of this act, or any other provision 35 of any law or code amended by this act. 36 § 7. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 37 have become a law; provided that: 38 (a) the amendments to subdivision a of section 5 of the emergency 39 tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four made by sections one and 40 two of this act shall expire on the same date as such act expires and 41 shall not affect the expiration of such act as provided in section 17 of 42 chapter 576 of the laws of 1974; 43 (b) the amendments to section 26-403 of the city rent and rehabili- 44 tation law made by sections three and four of this act shall remain in 45 full force and effect only as long as the public emergency requiring the 46 regulation and control of residential rents and evictions continues, as 47 provided in subdivision 3 of section 1 of the local emergency housing 48 rent control act; and 49 (c) the amendments to subparagraph c of paragraph 9 of subdivision c 50 of section 26-511 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the administrative code of 51 the city of New York made by section five of this act shall expire on 52 the same date as such law expires and shall not affect the expiration of 53 such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.
