New York Rent Laws
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The Emergency Housing Rent Control Law of 1961 [EHRCL]

Section 14.    INTENT.

1.   It is the intention of this act to subject to control only
     those housing accommodations, as that term is defined
     herein, which were subject to rent control and for which a
     maximum rent was in effect on March first, nineteen hundred
     fifty, pursuant to federal or local laws, and in the
     discretion of the commission those housing accommodations
     for which a maximum rent was thereafter established,
     pursuant to the provisions of section four hereof.

2.   Any reference made in this act to the local laws specified
     in chapter one of the laws of nineteen hundred fifty shall
     be deemed to be solely for the purposes of identification,
     and if any of such laws shall be held invalid, the reference
     made herein and any maximum rent established hereunder shall
     not be affected thereby.

3.   The provisions of this section shall be deemed to supersede
     any other inconsistent provisions of this act.

4.   Notwithstanding the decontrol of housing accommodations
     therein pursuant to this act, unless otherwise provided
     herein, no municipality shall have the power to adopt local
     laws with respect to the registration or control of rents or
     evictions or otherwise to the subject matter of this act.