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                                  1930--A
                                                         Cal. No. 147
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2017
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. JOYNER, BARRON -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Housing -- advanced to a third reading, passed by  Assem-
   bly and delivered to the Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote recon-
   sidered,  bill  amended, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the
   order of third reading
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing the lease
   and landlord fraud public awareness program to promote  public  aware-
   ness  of  the  potential  risks  of signing a fraudulent lease with an
   individual misrepresenting themselves as a landlord
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraphs 14 and 15 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3
 of section 94-a of the executive law, as added by section 21 of  part  A
 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, are amended and a new subparagraph 16
 is added to read as follows:
   (14)  cooperate  with  and assist consumers in class actions in proper
 cases; [and]
   (15) create an internet website or webpage pursuant to  section  three
 hundred ninety-c of the general business law[.]; AND
   (16)  (I)  ESTABLISH  THE  LEASE  AND  LANDLORD FRAUD PUBLIC AWARENESS
 PROGRAM TO PROMOTE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE POTENTIAL RISKS OF SIGNING  A
 FRAUDULENT  LEASE  WITH  AN  INDIVIDUAL  MISREPRESENTING THEMSELVES AS A
 LANDLORD;
   (II) TO IMPLEMENT THE LEASE AND LANDLORD PUBLIC AWARENESS PROGRAM, THE
 DIVISION SHALL:
   A. DEVELOP A PUBLIC EDUCATION AND OUTREACH CAMPAIGN INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 LIMITED TO, WRITTEN MATERIALS AND BROCHURES TO PROMOTE LEASE  AND  LAND-
 LORD FRAUD AWARENESS AND EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON FRAUDULENT LEASES
 AND INDIVIDUALS MISREPRESENTING THEMSELVES AS LANDLORDS; AND
   B.  DEVELOP  EDUCATIONAL  MATERIALS  AND BROCHURES WHICH SHALL BE MADE
 AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05509-03-8

 A. 1930--A                          2
 
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.