Assembly Actions -
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Jan 18, 2011 |
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Senate Bill S2221
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-S2221 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
- Law Section:
- Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง715, RPAP L
- Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
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S204
2011-S2221 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Increases the ability to remove persons from premises used for illegal purposes; enables tenants, block associations and community organizations within 1,000 feet of a property being used for an illegal activity to serve owners with a written notice requiring the owner to make application for the removal of the person using the premises for illegal activities and allows such organizations to bring a proceeding when the owner fails to act.
2011-S2221 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S2221 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the real property actions and proceedings law, in relation to grounds and procedures to recover premises where use or occupancy is illegal SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: This bill amends the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (RPAPL) by amending Section 715 to remove archaic terms and enhance its use to remove occupants conducting illegal activities in the building. This bill would make the following changes to the statute: 1. Provide for a more reasonable time period in which an owner is required to initiate a proceeding under Article 7 from the current five days to 20 days after a notice to initiate an eviction is served; 2. Provides an owner the right to have the legal basis of the notice served upon him requiring removal of a tenant clarified; 3. Adds tenant and community organizations to the current parties that have standing to initiate notice requiring an owner to initiate the removal of a person using a premises for an illegal activity and adds
2011-S2221 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2221 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 18, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- 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 real property actions and proceedings law, in relation to grounds and procedures to recover premises where use or occupancy is illegal THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 715 of the real property actions and proceedings law, as amended by chapter 494 of the laws of 1976, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 555 of the laws of 1978, subdivision 3 as added and subdivisions 4 and 5 as renumbered by chapter 206 of the laws of 1980 and subdivision 5 as added by chapter 627 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows: S 715. Grounds and procedure where use or occupancy is illegal. 1. [An owner or tenant, including a tenant of one or more rooms of an apartment house, tenement house or multiple dwelling,] ANY OWNER, TENANT OR TENANT ORGANIZATION of any premises OR ANY BLOCK ASSOCIATION within [two hundred feet from] ONE THOUSAND FEET OF other [demised real] RENT- ED, TRESPASSED UPON OR SQUATTED UPON property used or occupied in whole or in part [as a bawdy-house, or house or place of assignation for lewd persons, or] for purposes of prostitution OR ILLEGAL GAMBLING OR ILLEGAL SALES OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES OR MARIHUANA, or for any OTHER illegal trade, business or manufacture, or any [domestic corporation organized for the suppression of vice, subject to or which submits to visitation by the state department of social services and possesses a certificate from such department of such fact and of conformity with regulations of the department,] TENANT ORGANIZATION, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION, BLOCK ASSOCIATION OR SIMILAR INCORPORATED OR UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATION ORGAN- IZED TO PROMOTE THE PUBLIC WELFARE WITHIN AN AREA ENCOMPASSING ONE THOU- SAND FEET OF THE SUBJECT PREMISES or any duly authorized enforcement EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07396-01-1
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