Assembly Bill A10909

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides that all declarations of housing emergency that were in effect as of March 7, 2020 shall remain in effect until 2 years after the emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order 202 of 2020 ends

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A10909 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8855
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Housing
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A3064, S433

2019-A10909 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that all declarations of housing emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020 shall remain in full force and effect until the date that is two years after the expiration of the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order 202 of 2020.

2019-A10909 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10909
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 17, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Epstein) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT providing for the continuation of certain declarations of housing
   emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  a. For the purposes of this act, "declarations of housing
 emergency" means:
   (i) all determinations by the local legislative body of a  city,  town
 or  village of the existence of a public emergency pursuant to section 3
 of the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four;
   (ii) the public emergency requiring  the  regulation  and  control  of
 residential  rents and evictions as provided in subdivision 3 of section
 1 of the local emergency housing rent control act;
   (iii) the serious public emergencies  declared  pursuant  to  sections
 26-401,  26-501 and 26-502 of the administrative code of the city of New
 York; and
   (iv) the serious public emergency declared pursuant to  section  1  of
 the emergency housing rent control law.
   b. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of the emergency tenant
 protection  act  of  nineteen  seventy-four,  sections  26-401,  26-414,
 26-501, 26-502, and 26-520 of the administrative code of the city of New
 York, and any other applicable provisions of law,  all  declarations  of
 housing emergency that were in full force and effect as of March 7, 2020
 shall  remain  in full force and effect until the date that is two years
 after the expiration of the state disaster emergency, as  such  term  is
 defined  in section 20 of the executive law, declared pursuant to Execu-
 tive Order 202 of 2020, as amended,  and  as  further  extended  by  any
 subsequent  or future executive order, regardless of whether the vacancy
 rate for the municipality in which the housing accommodation is  located
 or  for the class of such housing accommodation within such municipality
 is in excess of five percent.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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