Bill Text: NY S08930 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that in the city of New York, a part of the court shall be devoted to actions and proceedings where: the petitioner and the respondent are natural persons; or the petitioner is a natural person shareholder constituting one hundred percent ownership of a corporation and at least one shareholder resides on-premises full time of a property consisting of ten residential units or fewer; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-12 - PRINT NUMBER 8930A [S08930 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08930-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8930--A

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 28, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CHU  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Judiciary  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the New York city civil court act, in relation to hous-
          ing courts

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

     1    Section 1. Section 110 of the New York city civil court act is amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision (r) to read as follows:
     3    (r)  (1)  A  part  of  the  court  shall  be  devoted  to  actions and
     4  proceedings where:
     5    (i) the petitioner, or petitioners, and the  respondent,  or  respond-
     6  ents, are all natural persons; or
     7    (ii)  either  the  petitioner,  or  petitioners, or the respondent, or
     8  respondents, are natural person shareholder, or shareholders, constitut-
     9  ing one hundred percent ownership of a  corporation  and  at  least  one
    10  shareholder  resides  on-premises  full time of a property consisting of
    11  ten residential units or fewer.
    12    (2) Housing judges shall be appointed pursuant to subdivision  (f)  of
    13  this section.
    14    (3)  For  every two million residents, rounded up to the next million,
    15  such housing court shall consist of one housing part, two  trial  parts,
    16  and  two  resolution  parts.  The  office  of court administration shall
    17  implement the provisions of this subdivision on a  city-wide  basis  and
    18  shall  promulgate  any  standards  and goals necessary to adjudicate the
    19  actions and proceedings pursuant to this subdivision within one  hundred
    20  twenty days of the  commencement of such actions and proceedings.
    21    §  2. Section 102-a of the New York city civil court act is amended by
    22  adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
    23    5. Housing judges necessary for housing courts established pursuant to
    24  subdivision (r) of section one hundred ten  of  this  article  shall  be
    25  appointed pursuant to subdivision (f) of such section.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14788-10-4
        S. 8930--A                          2

     1    §  3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
     2  law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
     3  rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act  on  its
     4  effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
     5  effective date.