Bill Text: NY S04571 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the NYC housing authority to include a notice informing a prospective tenant or tenant of the ability to add legal occupants to the lease or renewal lease and to provide a form to add the additional legal occupants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04571 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04571-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4571
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 30, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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 public housing law, in relation to requiring that
         the New York city housing  authority  include  a  notice  informing  a
         prospective  tenant or tenant of the ability to add legal occupants to
         the lease or renewal lease, and provide, upon request, a tenant with a
         form to add additional legal occupants
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivisions 7, 8 and 9 of section 402 of the public hous-
    2  ing law, subdivision 8 as renumbered by chapter 467 of the laws of 1971,
    3  are renumbered subdivisions 8, 9 and 10 and a new subdivision 7 is added
    4  to read as follows:
    5    7. A. THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY SHALL  INCLUDE,  ALONG  WITH
    6  EVERY  LEASE OR RENEWAL LEASE OFFERED TO A PROSPECTIVE TENANT OR CURRENT
    7  TENANT,  A  SEPARATE,  CLEAR  AND  CONSPICUOUS  NOTICE,  IN   AT   LEAST
    8  SIXTEEN-POINT  BOLDFACE  TYPE,  CONCERNING  THE  TENANT'S ABILITY TO ADD
    9  ADDITIONAL LEGAL OCCUPANTS TO THE LEASE AGREEMENT.
   10    B. UPON RECEIPT OF A TENANT'S REQUEST FOR A FORM TO ADD AN  ADDITIONAL
   11  LEGAL  OCCUPANT,  THE  AUTHORITY  SHALL,  WITHIN SEVEN DAYS, PROVIDE THE
   12  TENANT WITH THE APPROPRIATE FORM, ALONG  WITH  A  NOTICE  INFORMING  THE
   13  TENANT  OF  THE  RIGHT TO CONTEST THE DENIAL OF ANY OCCUPANCY PERMISSION
   14  REQUEST.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   16  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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