Assembly Bill A2129

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for the determination of legal regulated base date rent for certain purposes

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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
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2023-A2129 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1765
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974
Laws Affected:
Amd §12, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A10514, S9075

2023-A2129 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the determination of legal regulated base date rent at the four-year lookback shall be determined by either the survey sampling method or the default method if there is fraud.

2023-A2129 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   2129
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the  emer-
   gency  tenant  protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in relation to
   providing for the determination of legal regulated base date rent  for
   certain purposes

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph of paragraph 1 of  subdivision  a  of
 section 12 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting
 the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, as amended
 by  section  1  of  part F chapter 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
 read as follows:
   Subject to the conditions and limitations of this paragraph, any owner
 of housing accommodations in a city having a population of less than one
 million or a town or village as to which an emergency has been  declared
 pursuant  to  section  three,  who, upon complaint of a tenant or of the
 state division of housing and community renewal, is found by  the  state
 division  of  housing and community renewal, after a reasonable opportu-
 nity to be heard, to have collected an overcharge above the rent author-
 ized for a housing accommodation subject to this act shall be liable  to
 the  tenant  for a penalty equal to three times the amount of such over-
 charge.  If the owner establishes by a  preponderance  of  the  evidence
 that  the  overcharge was neither willful nor attributable to his negli-
 gence, the state division of housing and community renewal shall  estab-
 lish  the  penalty  as the amount of the overcharge plus interest at the
 rate of interest payable on a judgment pursuant to section five thousand
 four of the civil practice law and rules.  After  a  complaint  of  rent
 overcharge  has been filed and served on an owner, the voluntary adjust-
 ment of the rent and/or the voluntary tender of a refund of  rent  over-
 charges shall not be considered by the division of housing and community

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05848-01-3
              

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