New York State Bill S3281

[ Summary ] [ Memo ]

Text of New York State Bill S03281


                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________

                                         3281

                              1997-1998 Regular Sessions

                                   I N  S E N A T E

                                     March 4, 1997
                                      ___________

       Introduced by Sens. CONNOR, MARKOWITZ -- 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 emergency housing rent control  law,  amend  chapter
         576  of  the laws of 1974, amending the emergency housing rent control
         law relating to the control of and stabilization of  rent  in  certain
         cases, chapter 329 of the laws of 1963, amending the emergency housing
         rent  control law relating to the recontrol of rents in certain cases,
         chapter 555 of the laws of 1982, amending the general business law and
         the administrative code of the city of New York relating to conversion
         of rental residential property to cooperative or condominium ownership
         in the city of New York and chapter 402 of the laws of 1983,  amending
         the  general business law relating to conversion of rental residential
         property to cooperative or condominium ownership  in  certain  munici-
         palities  in  the  counties  of  Nassau,  Westchester and Rockland, in
         relation to extending their periods of effectiveness

         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

    1    Section 1. Section 17 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, amending the
    2  emergency  housing  rent  control  law  relating  to  the control of and
    3  stabilization of rent in certain cases, as amended by chapter 253 of the
    4  laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
    5    S 17. Effective date. This act shall take effect immediately and shall
    6  remain in full force and effect until and including the fifteenth day of
    7  June {1997} 2001; except that sections two and three shall  take  effect
    8  with  respect to any city having a population of one million or more and
    9  section one shall take effect with respect to any  other  city,  or  any
   10  town  or  village whenever the local legislative body of a city, town or
   11  village determines the existence  of  a  public  emergency  pursuant  to
   12  section  3  of  the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-
   13  four, as enacted by section four of this  act,  and  provided  that  the
   14  housing  accommodations  subject  on  the  effective date of this act to

        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             { } is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08578-01-7

       S. 3281                              2

    1  stabilization pursuant to the New York city rent  stabilization  law  of
    2  nineteen  hundred  sixty-nine  shall remain subject to such law upon the
    3  expiration of this act.
    4    S  2. Section 2 of chapter 329 of the laws of 1963, amending the emer-
    5  gency housing rent control law relating to the  recontrol  of  rents  in
    6  certain cases, as amended by chapter 253 of the laws of 1993, is amended
    7  to read as follows:
    8    S  2.  This  act  shall  take effect immediately and the provisions of
    9  subdivision 6 of section 12 of the emergency housing rent  control  law,
   10  as  added  by  this act, shall remain in full force and effect until and
   11  including June 15, {1997} 2001.
   12    S 3. Subdivision 2 of section 1 of chapter 274 of the  laws  of  1946,
   13  constituting the emergency housing rent control law, as amended by chap-
   14  ter 253 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
   15    2.  The  provisions  of  this  act,  and  all  regulations, orders and
   16  requirements thereunder shall remain in full force and effect until  and
   17  including June 15, {1997} 2001.
   18    S  4.  Section  10  of  chapter  555 of the laws of 1982, amending the
   19  general business law and the administrative code of the city of New York
   20  relating to conversion of rental residential property to cooperative  or
   21  condominium ownership in the city of New York, as amended by chapter 253
   22  of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
   23    S  10.  This  act  shall  take  effect immediately; provided, that the
   24  provisions of sections one, two and nine of this  act  shall  remain  in
   25  full  force  and  effect  only until and including June 15, {1997} 2001;
   26  provided further that the provisions of section three of this act  shall
   27  remain  in  full  force  and effect only so long as the public emergency
   28  requiring the regulation and control of residential rents and  evictions
   29  continues  as  provided in subdivision 3 of section 1 of the local emer-
   30  gency housing rent control act; provided further that the provisions  of
   31  sections  four,  five, six and seven of this act shall expire in accord-
   32  ance with the provisions of section 26-520 of the administrative code of
   33  the city of New York as such section of the administrative code is, from
   34  time to time, amended; provided further that the provisions  of  section
   35  26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by
   36  this act, which the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and
   37  Development  must  find  are  contained  in  the code of the real estate
   38  industry stabilization association of such city in order to approve  it,
   39  shall  be deemed contained therein as of the effective date of this act;
   40  and provided further that any plan accepted for filing by the department
   41  of law on or before the effective date of this act shall continue to  be
   42  governed  by  the provisions of section 352-eeee of the general business
   43  law as they had existed immediately prior to the effective date of  this
   44  act.
   45    S 5. Section 4 of chapter 402 of the laws of 1983, amending the gener-
   46  al business law relating to conversion of rental residential property to
   47  cooperative  or  condominium  ownership in certain municipalities in the
   48  counties of Nassau, Westchester and Rockland, as amended by chapter  253
   49  of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
   50    S  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately; provided, that the
   51  provisions of sections one and three of this act shall  remain  in  full
   52  force  and  effect  only  until  and including June 15, {1997} 2001; and
   53  provided further that any plan accepted for filing by the department  of
   54  law  on  or  before  the effective date of this act shall continue to be
   55  governed by the provisions of section 352-eee of  the  general  business

       S. 3281                              3

    1  law  as they had existed immediately prior to the effective date of this
    2  act.
    3    S 6. This act shall take effect immediately.


Bill S3281
[ Summary ] [ Memo ]