Bill Text: NY S08048 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8048

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes a municipality to impose a civil penalty when an owner or their agent refuses to participate in a vacancy survey or submits knowingly and intentionally false vacancy information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-03-01 - SIGNED CHAP.100 [S08048 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08048-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8048

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of  nineteen  seven-
          ty-four, in relation to authorizing a civil penalty when owners refuse
          to  participate  in a vacancy survey or submits false vacancy informa-
          tion

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision e of section 3 of section 4 of chapter 576 of
     2  the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant  protection  act  of
     3  nineteen seventy-four, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2023, amend-
     4  ing  the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four relat-
     5  ing to studies to determine vacancy rates, as  proposed  in  legislative
     6  bills numbers S. 1684-A and A. 6843-A, is amended to read as follows:
     7    e. [Refusal by an] A municipality may impose a civil penalty or fee of
     8  up  to  five  hundred dollars on an owner or their agent if the owner or
     9  their agent refuses to participate in such vacancy survey and  cooperate
    10  with  the  municipality  or  a  designee  in  such  vacancy  survey,  or
    11  [submission of] submits knowingly and intentionally false vacancy infor-
    12  mation [may be deemed cause to deny a rental permit  or  certificate  of
    13  occupancy  for  a  housing  accommodation.  Such  municipality may addi-
    14  tionally impose a civil penalty or fee on such owner or their  agent  of
    15  up to one thousand dollars].
    16    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    17  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023, amending the  emergency  tenant
    18  protection act of nineteen seventy-four relating to studies to determine
    19  vacancy rates, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1684-A and A.
    20  6843-A, takes effect.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05739-04-4