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                                   8406
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 16, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CYMBROWITZ  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend  the  local  emergency  housing  rent  control  act,  in
   relation  to the date when the local legislative body of a city having
   a population of one million or more may determine the continuation  of
   the emergency, and to amend the administrative code of the city of New
   York, in relation to continuation of the New York city rent stabiliza-
   tion law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1 of chapter 21  of  the  laws  of
 1962,  constituting  the  local  emergency  housing rent control act, as
 amended by chapter 657 of the laws  of  1967,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   3.  Local determination as to continuation of emergency. The continua-
 tion, after May  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven,  of  the
 public  emergency  requiring  the  regulation and control of residential
 rents and evictions within cities having a population of one million  or
 more  shall  be  a matter for local determination within each such city.
 Any such determination shall be made by the local  legislative  body  of
 such  city on or before April first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven and at
 least once in every third year thereafter following a survey  which  the
 city  shall  cause  to  be  made of the supply of housing accommodations
 within such city, the condition of such accommodations and the need  for
 continuing the regulation and control of residential rents and evictions
 within  such  city,  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT WHEN THE DATE BY WHICH SUCH
 DETERMINATION SHALL BE MADE FALLS IN A CALENDAR YEAR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW-
 ING  A  CALENDAR  YEAR  DURING  WHICH  A  FEDERAL  DECENNIAL  CENSUS  IS
 CONDUCTED,  SUCH  DATE SHALL BE POSTPONED BY ONE YEAR. Such survey shall
 be submitted to such legislative body not less than thirty nor more than
 sixty days prior to the date of any such determination.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 A. 8406                             2
 
   § 2. Section 26-520 of the administrative code  of  the  city  of  New
 York,  as amended by local law number 85 of the city of New York for the
 year of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   § 26-520 Expiration date. This chapter shall expire on April 1, [2021]
 2022  unless rent control shall sooner terminate as provided in subdivi-
 sion three of section one of the local emergency  housing  rent  control
 law.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.