Bill Text: NY A10848 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Suspends proceedings to recover real property statewide until after January 20, 2021; stays the execution of warrants of eviction or judgments of possession until after January 20, 2021.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-09 - print number 10848b [A10848 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10848-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                        10848--B

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 24, 2020
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Dinowitz) --
          read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on Housing -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee -- reported and referred to the Committee  on  Rules
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to mitigate the continuing threat to public health  arising  from
          COVID-19  by  ensuring  that  New  Yorkers  are not rendered homeless,
          evicted, or dispossessed of their housing

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

     1    Section  1.  Legislative  findings.  The  legislature finds that as an
     2  essential part of the state's efforts to mitigate the continuing  threat
     3  to public health arising from the widespread outbreak of the coronavirus
     4  commonly  known  as COVID-19, it is necessary to ensure that New Yorkers
     5  are not rendered homeless, evicted, or dispossessed of their housing  or
     6  summoned  before a court to defend their right to continued occupancy of
     7  their housing.
     8    § 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary:
     9    1. No court shall accept  any  petitions  in  summary  proceedings  to
    10  recover  real  property  or  other complaints in actions to recover real
    11  property from a residential tenant, or issue a warrant  of  eviction  or
    12  judgment  of  possession  against  a  residential tenant or other lawful
    13  residential occupant  on  or  before  January  20,  2021.  All  eviction
    14  proceedings  against  residential  tenants  or  other lawful residential
    15  occupants shall be suspended statewide until after January 20, 2021.
    16    2. No sheriff or marshal shall execute a warrant of eviction or  judg-
    17  ment of possession against a residential tenant or other lawful residen-
    18  tial occupant on or before January 20, 2021. Any court that has issued a
    19  warrant  of  eviction  or  judgment  of possession against a residential
    20  tenant or other lawful residential occupant shall stay the execution  of
    21  such  warrant  of eviction or judgment of possession until after January
    22  20, 2021.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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