Bill Text: NY S00235 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that a person sixty-two years of age or older, who is a tenant of a dwelling unit located in a building which is located in the city of New York, and who is threatened with eviction because such building is subject to a cooperative or condominium conversion plan, shall be entitled to remain in occupancy of such dwelling unit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-13 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S00235 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00235-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           235
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging
        AN ACT to provide continued tenancy for  certain  non-purchasing  senior
          citizens in the city of New York; and to amend chapter 555 of the laws
          of  1982 amending the general business law and the administrative code
          of the city of New York relating to conversion of residential property
          to cooperative or condominium ownership in the city of  New  York,  in
          relation to extending the expiration thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The legislature  hereby  finds  that  due  to  the  special
     2  circumstances of senior citizens, a greater degree of care must be taken
     3  in preserving the essentials of life for the elderly. In 1982, and again
     4  in  1986,  the  legislature  recognized the particular hardship of relo-
     5  cation for  such  persons  and  extended  to  eligible  senior  citizens
     6  protection  from eviction pursuant to certain cooperative or condominium
     7  conversion plans. The legislature hereby finds that  greater  protection
     8  must  be  afforded  to  senior  citizens  currently residing in multiple
     9  dwellings subject to a cooperative or condominium conversion plan in the
    10  city of New York and threatened with eviction pursuant  to  an  eviction
    11  plan.
    12    §  2.  Notwithstanding  any  contrary provision of law, any person who
    13  attains the age of sixty-two years or older on or before July  1,  2019,
    14  who  is  and  has  continuously  been  since prior to January 1, 1982, a
    15  tenant of a dwelling unit located in a building or group of buildings or
    16  development in the city of New York subject to a cooperative  or  condo-
    17  minium  conversion eviction plan, and who is a non-purchasing tenant and
    18  otherwise subject to eviction may remain in occupancy, with all  of  the
    19  rights  of non-purchasing tenants as provided in paragraph (c) of subdi-
    20  vision 2 of section  352-eeee  of  the  general  business  law  and  all
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  protections  extended by applicable rent regulation laws and provisions;
     2  provided, however, that the units occupied by such tenants or the shares
     3  allocated thereto have not been sold to a bona fide purchaser for  occu-
     4  pancy  prior  to  the  effective date of this act; and provided further,
     5  however, that the right of succession with respect to such unit shall be
     6  limited to the spouses of such  tenants,  and  thereafter,  such  family
     7  members  of  such tenants which are named on the lease for such dwelling
     8  unit.
     9    § 3.  Section 10 of chapter 555 of the  laws  of  1982,  amending  the
    10  general business law and the administrative code of the city of New York
    11  relating  to conversion of residential property to cooperative or condo-
    12  minium ownership in the city of New York, as amended  by  section  4  of
    13  part A of chapter 20 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
    14    §  10.  This  act  shall  take  effect immediately; provided, that the
    15  provisions of sections one, two and nine of this  act  shall  remain  in
    16  full  force  and  effect  only until and including June 15, [2019] 2022;
    17  provided further that the provisions of section three of this act  shall
    18  remain  in  full  force  and effect only so long as the public emergency
    19  requiring the regulation and control of residential rents and  evictions
    20  continues  as  provided in subdivision 3 of section 1 of the local emer-
    21  gency housing rent control act; provided further that the provisions  of
    22  sections  four,  five, six and seven of this act shall expire in accord-
    23  ance with the provisions of section 26-520 of the administrative code of
    24  the city of New York as such section of the administrative code is, from
    25  time to time, amended; provided further that the provisions  of  section
    26  26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by
    27  this act, which the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and
    28  Development  must  find  are  contained  in  the code of the real estate
    29  industry stabilization association of such city in order to approve  it,
    30  shall  be deemed contained therein as of the effective date of this act;
    31  and provided further that any plan accepted for filing by the department
    32  of law on or before the effective date of this act shall continue to  be
    33  governed  by  the provisions of section 352-eeee of the general business
    34  law as they had existed immediately prior to the effective date of  this
    35  act.
    36    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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