Assembly Bill A5692

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to rent registration statements to be filed for vacant units

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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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2023-A5692 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974
Laws Affected:
Amd §12-a, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §26-517, NYC Ad Cd

2023-A5692 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires owners of housing accommodations subject to rent registration to file an additional statement at three month intervals, until the unit is occupied.

2023-A5692 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5692
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 22, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of  nineteen  seven-
   ty-four  and  the  administrative  code  of  the  city of New York, in
   relation to rent registration statements for vacant units

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision f of section 12-a of section 4 of chapter 576
 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of
 nineteen seventy-four, as added by chapter 403 of the laws of  1983,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   f.  An  annual statement shall  be  filed  containing the current rent
 for each unit and such other information contained in subdivision  a  of
 this  section  as  shall  be required by the division.   The owner shall
 provide each tenant then in occupancy with a copy  of  that  portion  of
 such  annual  statement  as  pertains  to the tenant's unit.   FOR UNITS
 REGISTERED AS VACANT ON THE DATE REQUIRED BY THE DIVISION, AN ADDITIONAL
 STATEMENT SHALL BE FILED CONTAINING THE  CURRENT  RENT  AND  SUCH  OTHER
 INFORMATION  CONTAINED  IN  SUBDIVISION A OF THIS SECTION AT THREE MONTH
 INTERVALS UNTIL SUCH UNIT HAS A TENANT IN OCCUPANCY.
   § 2. Subdivision f of section 26-517 of the administrative code of the
 city of New York is amended to read as follows:
   f. An annual statement shall be filed containing the current rent  for
 each  unit and such other information contained in subdivision a of this
 section as shall be required by the division. The  owner  shall  provide
 each tenant then in occupancy with a copy of that portion of such annual
 statement  as  pertains  to the tenant's unit.   FOR UNITS REGISTERED AS
 VACANT ON THE DATE REQUIRED BY THE  DIVISION,  AN  ADDITIONAL  STATEMENT
 SHALL  BE  FILED  CONTAINING THE CURRENT RENT AND SUCH OTHER INFORMATION
 CONTAINED IN SUBDIVISION A OF THIS  SECTION  AT  THREE  MONTH  INTERVALS
 UNTIL SUCH UNIT HAS A TENANT IN OCCUPANCY.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09915-02-3

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