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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Cities
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation to requiring that the city council appoint members to, desig-
   nate the chairman of, fill vacancies of and remove members of the rent
   guidelines board

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subdivision a of section 26-510 of the administrative code
 of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
   a. There shall be a rent guidelines board to consist of nine  members,
 appointed  by  the  [mayor] CITY COUNCIL. Two members shall be represen-
 tative of tenants, two shall be representative of  owners  of  property,
 and  five  shall  be public members each of whom shall have had at least
 five years experience in  either  finance,  economics  or  housing.  One
 public  member  shall be designated by the [mayor] CITY COUNCIL to serve
 as chairman and shall hold no other public office. No member, officer or
 employee of any municipal rent regulation agency or the  state  division
 of  housing and community renewal and no person who owns or manages real
 estate covered by this law or who is an officer of any owner  or  tenant
 organization  shall serve on a rent guidelines board. One public member,
 one member representative of tenants and one  member  representative  of
 owners  shall  serve for a term ending two years from January first next
 succeeding the date of their appointment; one public member, one  member
 representative  of tenants and one member representative of owners shall
 serve for terms ending three years from the January first next  succeed-
 ing the date of their appointment and two public members shall serve for
 terms  ending four years from January first next succeeding the dates of
 their appointment. The chairman shall  serve  at  the  pleasure  of  the
 [mayor]  CITY  COUNCIL. Thereafter, all members shall continue in office
 until their successors have been appointed and  qualified.  The  [mayor]
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 CITY  COUNCIL shall fill any vacancy which may occur by reason of death,
 resignation or otherwise  in  a  manner  consistent  with  the  original
 appointment.  A  member  may  be removed by the [mayor] CITY COUNCIL for
 cause,  but not without an opportunity to be heard in person or by coun-
 sel, in his or her defense, upon not less than ten days notice.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately;  and  provided  that  the
 amendments  to  subdivision a of section 26-510 of chapter 4 of title 26
 of the administrative code of the city of New York made by  section  one
 of  this act shall expire on the same date as such law expires and shall
 not affect the expiration of such law as provided under  section  26-520
 of such law.