Bill Text: NY A10909 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that all declarations of housing emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020 shall remain in full force and effect until the date that is two years after the expiration of the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order 202 of 2020.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-17 - referred to housing [A10909 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10909-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10909 IN ASSEMBLY August 17, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Epstein) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing AN ACT providing for the continuation of certain declarations of housing emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. a. For the purposes of this act, "declarations of housing 2 emergency" means: 3 (i) all determinations by the local legislative body of a city, town 4 or village of the existence of a public emergency pursuant to section 3 5 of the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four; 6 (ii) the public emergency requiring the regulation and control of 7 residential rents and evictions as provided in subdivision 3 of section 8 1 of the local emergency housing rent control act; 9 (iii) the serious public emergencies declared pursuant to sections 10 26-401, 26-501 and 26-502 of the administrative code of the city of New 11 York; and 12 (iv) the serious public emergency declared pursuant to section 1 of 13 the emergency housing rent control law. 14 b. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of the emergency tenant 15 protection act of nineteen seventy-four, sections 26-401, 26-414, 16 26-501, 26-502, and 26-520 of the administrative code of the city of New 17 York, and any other applicable provisions of law, all declarations of 18 housing emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020 19 shall remain in full force and effect until the date that is two years 20 after the expiration of the state disaster emergency, as such term is 21 defined in section 20 of the executive law, declared pursuant to Execu- 22 tive Order 202 of 2020, as amended, and as further extended by any 23 subsequent or future executive order, regardless of whether the vacancy 24 rate for the municipality in which the housing accommodation is located 25 or for the class of such housing accommodation within such municipality 26 is in excess of five percent. 27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD17034-01-0