Assembly Bill A481

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides that landlord's request for information regarding request to sublet shall be on forms prepared by housing agency

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2023-A481 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Real Property Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §226-b, RP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5673
2011-2012: A1778
2013-2014: A241
2015-2016: A972
2017-2018: A4965
2019-2020: A687
2021-2022: A1573

2023-A481 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the division of housing and community renewal to promulgate forms which a landlord of a rent regulated unit in a building with four or more such units shall be required to use when requesting additional information from a tenant who has made a request to sublet.

2023-A481 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    481
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property law, in  relation  to  the  landlord's
   request for information regarding a request to sublet
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 226-b of the real property law, as
 added by chapter 403 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
   4. With respect to units covered by the  emergency  tenant  protection
 act  of  nineteen seventy-four or the rent stabilization law of nineteen
 hundred sixty-nine the exercise of the rights granted  by  this  section
 shall  be subject to the applicable provisions of such laws. IN THE CASE
 OF SUCH UNITS, ANY REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MADE  PURSUANT  TO
 PARAGRAPH  (C)  OF  SUBDIVISION  TWO OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE UPON FORMS
 PROMULGATED BY THE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL  AND  SHALL
 INCLUDE ONLY THOSE QUESTIONS PROVIDED BY THE DIVISION. Nothing contained
 in this section [two hundred twenty-six-b] shall be deemed to affect the
 rights, if any, of any tenant subject to [title Y of chapter 51] CHAPTER
 THREE  OF TITLE TWENTY-SIX of the administrative code of the city of New
 York or the emergency housing rent control law.
   § 2. Within thirty days after this act shall have become  a  law,  the
 division of housing and community renewal shall promulgate such forms as
 shall  be  required  to effectuate the provisions of section one of this
 act. Such forms shall vary to accommodate the differing standards appli-
 cable to subletting under the various laws and codes  governing  sublet-
 ting.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to sub-
 lease requests mailed to a landlord  on  or  after  the  date  the  form
 provided  for  by this act is promulgated by the division of housing and
 community renewal.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00838-01-3

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