Bill Text: NY S02252 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires property owners to dedicate certain residential units to rent regulated status following demolition and new construction or substantial renovation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S02252 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S02252-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2252 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 23, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, BAILEY, KRUEGER, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development 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 property owners to dedicate certain residential units to rent regulated status following demolition and new construction or substantial renovation The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 26-512 of the administrative code of the city of 2 New York is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows: 3 g. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the 4 contrary, if all or a portion of the rent regulated units in a residen- 5 tial building are rendered uninhabitable or are vacated due to demoli- 6 tion and new construction or to substantial renovation conducted by or 7 on behalf of the property owner under any of the following circum- 8 stances, the property owner shall, upon completion of the new 9 construction or renovation of the building, dedicate to rent regulated 10 status an equal number of units, of sizes equivalent to those vacated or 11 rendered uninhabitable, at the rent amount allowable for the units 12 existing prior to the demolition or renovation: 13 (1) demolition or substantial renovation conducted after the property 14 owner filed an application for a building permit with the department of 15 buildings falsely reporting that no tenants occupied the building 16 proposed for demolition or substantial renovation, when tenants, in 17 fact, did occupy the building; or 18 (2) demolition or substantial renovation necessitated due to the 19 negligence of the owner and/or landlord; or 20 (3) demolition or substantial renovation necessitated by illegal code 21 violations. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08559-01-9S. 2252 2 1 § 2. Section 6 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, 2 constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy- 3 four, is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows: 4 h. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the 5 contrary, if all or a portion of the rent regulated units in a residen- 6 tial building are rendered uninhabitable or are vacated due to demoli- 7 tion and new construction or to substantial renovation conducted by or 8 on behalf of the property owner under any of the following circum- 9 stances, the property owner shall, upon completion of the new 10 construction or renovation of the building, dedicate to rent regulated 11 status an equal number of units, of sizes equivalent to those vacated or 12 rendered uninhabitable, at the rent amount allowable for the units 13 existing prior to the demolition or renovation: 14 (1) demolition or substantial renovation conducted after the property 15 owner filed an application for a building permit with the department of 16 buildings falsely reporting that no tenants occupied the building 17 proposed for demolition or substantial renovation, when tenants, in 18 fact, did occupy the building; or 19 (2) demolition or substantial renovation necessitated due to the 20 negligence of the owner and/or landlord; or 21 (3) demolition or substantial renovation necessitated by illegal code 22 violations. 23 § 3. Section 5 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946, constituting the 24 emergency housing rent control law, is amended by adding a new subdivi- 25 sion 10 to read as follows: 26 10. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the 27 contrary, if all or a portion of the rent regulated units in a residen- 28 tial building are rendered uninhabitable or are vacated due to demoli- 29 tion and new construction or to substantial renovation conducted by or 30 on behalf of the property owner under any of the following circum- 31 stances, the property owner shall, upon completion of the new 32 construction or renovation of the building, dedicate to rent regulated 33 status an equal number of units, of sizes equivalent to those vacated or 34 rendered uninhabitable, at the rent amount allowable for the units 35 existing prior to the demolition or renovation: 36 (a) demolition or substantial renovation conducted after the property 37 owner filed an application for a building permit with the department of 38 buildings falsely reporting that no tenants occupied the building 39 proposed for demolition or substantial renovation, when tenants, in 40 fact, did occupy the building; or 41 (b) demolition or substantial renovation necessitated due to the 42 negligence of the owner and/or landlord; or 43 (c) demolition or substantial renovation necessitated by illegal code 44 violations. 45 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that: 46 a. the amendments to section 26-512 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the 47 administrative code of the city of New York made by section one of this 48 act shall expire on the same date as such law expires and shall not 49 affect the expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of 50 such law; 51 b. the amendments to section 6 of section 4 of the emergency tenant 52 protection act of nineteen seventy-four made by section two of this act 53 shall expire on the same date as such act expires and shall not affect 54 the expiration of such act as provided in section 17 of chapter 576 of 55 the laws of 1974; andS. 2252 3 1 c. the amendments to section 4 of the emergency housing rent control 2 law made by section three of this act shall expire on the same date as 3 such law expires and shall not affect the expiration of such law as 4 provided in subdivision 2 of section 1 of chapter 274 of the laws of 5 1946.