Senate Bill S2482

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to penalties for owners of property who fail to file a proper or timely rent registration statement

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development 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-S2482 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974
Laws Affected:
Amd §12, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §26-516, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6454
2017-2018: S122
2019-2020: S238
2021-2022: S4637

2023-S2482 - Summary

Relates to penalties for owners of property who fail to file a proper or timely rent registration statement.

2023-S2482 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2482 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2482
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 20, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  HOYLMAN-SIGAL,  KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing,
   Construction and Community Development
 
 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 penalties for owners of property who fail to file a proper
   or timely rent registration statement
 
   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 of 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]  AT  LEAST  THREE  TIMES  THE
 AMOUNT,  NOT  TO EXCEED FIVE times the amount of such overcharge. If the
 owner establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that the overcharge
 was neither willful nor attributable to his OR HER negligence, the state
 division of housing and community renewal shall establish the penalty as
 the amount of the overcharge plus interest at the rate of interest paya-
 ble 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  adjustment  of  the  rent
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00964-01-3
              

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2023-S2482A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974
Laws Affected:
Amd §12, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §26-516, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6454
2017-2018: S122
2019-2020: S238
2021-2022: S4637

2023-S2482A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to penalties for owners of property who fail to file a proper or timely rent registration statement.

2023-S2482A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2482A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2482--A
     Cal. No. 369
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 20, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KRUEGER -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Housing,  Construction and Community Development -- reported favorably
   from said committee, ordered to first and second  report,  amended  on
   second  report,  ordered  to  a  third reading, and to be reprinted as
   amended, retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
 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 penalties for owners of property who fail to file a proper
   or timely rent registration statement
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The opening paragraph and clause (ii) of subparagraph (b)
 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 of chap-
 ter 36 of the laws of 2019, are 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] FIVE times the amount of such
 overcharge FOR A FIRST OFFENSE AND TEN TIMES THE AMOUNT  OF  SUCH  OVER-
 CHARGE FOR ANY SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE. If the owner establishes by a prepon-
 derance  of  the  evidence  that  the overcharge was neither willful nor
 attributable to [his] THEIR negligence, the state  division  of  housing
 and  community  renewal shall establish the penalty as the amount of the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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