Bill Text: NY A11110 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "pandemic self-storage act" which prohibits owners of self-service storage facilities from enforcing a lien held upon personal property stored at a self-service storage facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-06 - referred to judiciary [A11110 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11110-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11110

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 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 Judiciary

        AN ACT in relation to enacting the "pandemic self-storage act"

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

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "pandemic self-storage act".
     3    §  2. Notwithstanding the provisions of article eight of the lien law,
     4  no owner of a self-service storage facility, as those terms are  defined
     5  in  section 182 of the lien law, shall enforce a lien held upon personal
     6  property stored at a self-service storage facility by public or  private
     7  sale during the COVID-19 covered period.
     8    §  3.  For the purposes of this act, the COVID-19 covered period shall
     9  include March 7, 2020 through the end of the state of emergency  in  the
    10  state  of New York plus one full year. For the purposes of this act, the
    11  state of emergency period includes, but is not limited  to,  any  period
    12  referenced in executive order numbers 202, 202.8, 202.28 of 2020 and any
    13  other  executive  order  that  closed  or otherwise restricted public or
    14  private businesses or places of public accommodation, or required  post-
    15  ponement  or cancellation of all non-essential gatherings of individuals
    16  of any size for any reason in response to the COVID-19 pandemic,  within
    17  the state of New York.
    18    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17546-02-0