Assembly Bill A3851

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides for the declaration of housing emergencies for rental housing accommodations located in buildings owned by certain limited-profit housing companies

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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-A3851 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5119
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2498
2011-2012: A2750
2013-2014: A4051
2015-2016: A2917
2017-2018: A3541
2021-2022: A3268, S2854

2019-A3851 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the declaration of housing emergencies for rental housing accommodations located in buildings owned by certain limited-profit housing companies.

2019-A3851 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3851
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of  nineteen  seven-
   ty-four,  in  relation  to  the declaration of housing emergencies for
   rental housing accommodations located in buildings  owned  by  certain
   limited-profit housing companies

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 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 by adding a new subdivision c to read as follows:
   C. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH THREE OR FIVE OF SUBDI-
 VISION A OF THIS SECTION BUT SUBJECT TO ANY OTHER APPLICABLE  EXCEPTIONS
 IN  SUCH SUBDIVISION, RENTAL HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS LOCATED IN BUILDINGS
 WHICH WERE OWNED BY A COMPANY ESTABLISHED UNDER ARTICLE 2 OF THE PRIVATE
 HOUSING FINANCE LAW, OTHER  THAN  A  MUTUAL  COMPANY,  THAT  VOLUNTARILY
 DISSOLVED  PURSUANT  TO SECTION 35 OF SUCH LAW SHALL BE FULLY SUBJECT TO
 THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT.  THE PROVISION OF SUBDIVISION A  OF  SECTION
 NINE  OF  THIS  ACT  SHALL  NOT APPLY TO ANY HOUSING ACCOMMODATION WHICH
 BECAME SUBJECT TO THIS ACT PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to housing
 companies that dissolve before, on or after such date; provided,  howev-
 er,  that the amendments to the emergency tenant protection act of nine-
 teen seventy-four made by this act shall not affect  the  expiration  of
 such  act  as provided in section 17 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974,
 as amended and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06632-01-9

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