Bill Text: NY S04131 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits tenants or residents of limited profit housing, or persons acting on their behalf, to copy financial documents pertaining to their projects, subject to a reasonable charge therefor, the maximum of which shall be prescribed by regulation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-12-06 - SIGNED CHAP.594 [S04131 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04131-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4131 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 1, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- 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 private housing finance law, in relation to the copying of documents of limited profit housing companies The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 32-a of the private housing finance law is amended 2 by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows: 3 8. Every tenant or resident, or a person acting on behalf of a tenant 4 or resident, shall be permitted to copy, by photographic means, any 5 document within the scope of this section pertaining to the project in 6 which such tenant or resident resides. A reasonable fee, subject to a 7 maximum therefor prescribed in regulations, may be charged for such 8 copies. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 10 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 11 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 12 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 13 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09540-01-9
