Assembly Bill A3039

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to recovery of certain housing accommodations by a landlord

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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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2021-A3039 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §26-511, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8261
2015-2016: A1539
2017-2018: A4781
2019-2020: A1311
2023-2024: A962

2021-A3039 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to recovery of certain housing accommodations by a landlord.

2021-A3039 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3039
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation to recovery of certain housing accommodations by a landlord
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (b) of paragraph 9 of subdivision c of section
 26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by
 section 14 of part Q of chapter 39 of the laws of 2019,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   (b)  where  he or she seeks to recover possession of one dwelling unit
 because of immediate  and  compelling  necessity  for  his  or  her  own
 personal  use  and  occupancy as his or her primary residence or for the
 use and occupancy of a member of his or her immediate family as  his  or
 her  primary  residence,  provided however, that this subparagraph shall
 permit recovery of only one dwelling unit and shall not  apply  where  a
 tenant or the spouse of a tenant lawfully occupying the dwelling unit is
 sixty-two years of age or older, has been a tenant in a dwelling unit in
 that  building  for [fifteen] TWENTY years or more, or has an impairment
 which results from anatomical,  physiological  or  psychological  condi-
 tions,  other  than  addiction  to  alcohol, gambling, or any controlled
 substance, which are demonstrable by medically acceptable  clinical  and
 laboratory diagnostic techniques, and which are expected to be permanent
 and  which  prevent  the tenant from engaging in any substantial gainful
 employment, unless such  owner  offers  to  provide  and  if  requested,
 provides  an equivalent or superior housing accommodation at the same or
 lower stabilized rent in a closely proximate  area.  The  provisions  of
 this  subparagraph shall only permit one of the individual owners of any
 building to recover possession of one dwelling unit for his or  her  own
 personal  use and/or for that of his or her immediate family. A dwelling
 unit recovered by an owner pursuant to this subparagraph shall not for a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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