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                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 9, 2015
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Housing

AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of  nineteen  seven-
  ty-four  and  the  administrative  code  of  the  city of New York, in
  relation to certain housing accommodations by tenants  over  sixty-two
  years of age

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

  Section 1. Paragraph 6 of subsection a of section 5 of  section  4  of
chapter  576  of  the  laws  of  1974, constituting the emergency tenant
protection act of nineteen seventy-four, as amended by  chapter  403  of
the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
  (6)  housing  accommodations owned or operated by a hospital, convent,
monastery, asylum, public institution, or college or school dormitory or
any institution  operated  exclusively  for  charitable  or  educational
purposes  on a non-profit basis other than those accommodations occupied
by a tenant on the date such housing accommodation is  acquired  by  any
such  institution,  [or] which are occupied subsequently by a tenant who
is not affiliated with such institution at the time of his initial occu-
pancy, OR WHERE THE HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS ARE OCCUPIED BY A NON-AFFILI-
ATED TENANT WHO IS SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER;
  S 2. Paragraph 10 of subsection a of section 5 of section 4 of chapter
576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the  emergency  tenant  protection
act of nineteen seventy-four, is amended to read as follows:
  (10)  housing  accommodations  in  buildings  operated exclusively for
charitable purposes on a non-profit basis, UNLESS SUCH HOUSING  ACCOMMO-
DATIONS ARE OCCUPIED BY A TENANT WHO IS SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER;
  S  3.  Subparagraph  (b)  of  paragraph  2 of subdivision e of section
26-403 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended  to
read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (b)  a  hospital,  convent,  monastery, asylum, public institution, or
college or school dormitory or any institution operated exclusively  for
charitable  or  educational  purposes on a non-profit basis, UNLESS SUCH
HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS ARE OCCUPIED BY A NON-AFFILIATED  TENANT  WHO  IS
SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER; or
  S  4.  Subparagraph  (g)  of  paragraph  2 of subdivision e of section
26-403 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended  to
read as follows:
  (g) Housing accommodations in buildings operated exclusively for char-
itable  purposes  on  a  non-profit  basis, UNLESS SUCH HOUSING ACCOMMO-
DATIONS ARE OCCUPIED BY A TENANT WHO IS SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER;
or
  S 5. The opening paragraph of subparagraph c of paragraph 9 of  subdi-
vision c of section 26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New
York is amended to read as follows:
  where  the  housing  accommodation  is  owned  by a hospital, convent,
monastery, asylum, public institution, college, school dormitory or  any
institution  operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes
on a non-profit basis, UNLESS SUCH HOUSING ACCOMMODATION IS OCCUPIED  BY
A TENANT WHO IS SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, and either:
  S 6. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of
any  provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not affect
the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of  this  act,  any
other  application  of any provision of this act, or any other provision
of any law or code amended by this act.
  S 7. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have become a law; provided that:
  (a)  the  amendments  to  subsection  a  of section 5 of the emergency
tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four made by sections one  and
two  of  this  act shall expire on the same date as such act expires and
shall not affect the expiration of such act as provided in section 17 of
chapter 576 of the laws of 1974;
  (b) the amendments to section 26-403 of the city  rent  and  rehabili-
tation  law  made by sections three and four of this act shall remain in
full force and effect only as long as the public emergency requiring the
regulation and control of residential rents and evictions continues,  as
provided  in  subdivision  3 of section 1 of the local emergency housing
rent control act; and
  (c) the amendments to subparagraph c of paragraph 9 of  subdivision  c
of section 26-511 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the administrative code of
the  city  of  New York made by section five of this act shall expire on
the same date as such law expires and shall not affect the expiration of
such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.