Bill Text: NY A08585 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires annual inspections for any increase in rent due to a major capital improvement.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to housing [A08585 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08585-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8585 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY September 13, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DeSTE- FANO, EPSTEIN, MOSLEY, NIOU, RICHARDSON, L. ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT, TAGUE, TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer- gency housing rent control law, in relation to requiring annual inspections for any increase in rent due to a major capital improve- ment The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision b of section 26-511.1 of the administrative 2 code of the city of New York, as added by section 4 of part K of chapter 3 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 4 b. The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process 5 which shall review [twenty-five percent of] all applications for [a6temporary] any major capital improvement increase that have been submit- 7 ted and approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and 8 document review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and 9 responsibilities under the law for [temporary] major capital improvement 10 increases. Inspections shall include in-person confirmation that such 11 improvements have been completed in such way as described in the appli- 12 cation. 13 § 2. Subdivision b of section 26-405.1 of the administrative code of 14 the city of New York, as added by section 5 of part K of chapter 36 of 15 the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 16 b. The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process 17 which shall review [twenty-five percent of] all applications for [a18temporary] any major capital improvement increase that have been submit- 19 ted and approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and 20 document review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and 21 responsibilities under the law for [temporary] major capital improvement EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13510-01-9A. 8585 2 1 increases. Inspections shall include in-person confirmation that such 2 improvements have been completed in such way as described in the appli- 3 cation. 4 § 3. Subdivision (b) of section 10-b of section 4 of chapter 576 of 5 the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of 6 nineteen seventy-four, as added by section 6 of part K of chapter 36 of 7 the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 8 (b) The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit proc- 9 ess which shall review [twenty-five percent of] all applications for [a10temporary] any major capital improvement increase that have been submit- 11 ted and approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and 12 document review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and 13 responsibilities under the law for [temporary] major capital improvement 14 increases. Inspections shall include in-person confirmation that such 15 improvements have been completed in such way as described in the appli- 16 cation. 17 § 4. Subdivision 2 of section 8-a of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946, 18 constituting the emergency housing rent control law, as added by section 19 7 of part K of chapter 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as 20 follows: 21 2. The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process 22 which shall review [twenty-five percent of] all applications for [a23temporary] any major capital improvement increase that have been submit- 24 ted and approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and 25 document review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and 26 responsibilities under the law for [temporary] major capital improvement 27 increases. Inspections shall include in-person confirmation that such 28 improvements have been completed in such way as described in the appli- 29 cation. 30 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that: 31 (a) the amendments to section 26-511.1 of the administrative code of 32 the city of New York made by section one of this act shall expire on the 33 same date as such section expires and shall not affect the expiration of 34 such section as provided under section 26-520 of such law; 35 (b) the amendments to section 26-405.1 of the city rent and rehabili- 36 tation law made by section two of this act shall remain in full force 37 and effect only as long as the public emergency requiring the regulation 38 and control of residential rents and evictions continues, as provided in 39 subdivision 3 of section 1 of the local emergency housing rent control 40 act; and 41 (c) effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of 42 any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on 43 its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed 44 on or before such effective date.