STATE OF NEW YORK
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8048
IN SENATE
January 5, 2024
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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