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                                    795
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city  of  New  York,  the
   emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer-
   gency  housing rent control law, in relation to requiring the division
   of housing and community renewal to  publish  the  results  of  annual
   audits  of  approved applications for temporary major capital improve-
   ment increases on its website annually
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  b  of section 26-405.1 of the administrative
 code of the city of New York, as added by section 5 of part K of chapter
 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   b. The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process
 which shall review twenty-five percent of applications for  a  temporary
 major   capital  improvement  increase  that  have  been  submitted  and
 approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and document
 review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and responsi-
 bilities  under  the  law  for  temporary  major   capital   improvement
 increases.  Inspections  shall  include in-person confirmation that such
 improvements have been completed in such way as described in the  appli-
 cation.  THE  DIVISION SHALL CONSPICUOUSLY MAKE AVAILABLE ON ITS WEBSITE
 THE RESULTS OF EVERY ANNUAL AUDIT CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION
 AND SHALL PUBLISH NEW AUDIT RESULTS ON ITS WEBSITE ANNUALLY.
   § 2. Subdivision b of section 26-511.1 of the administrative  code  of
 the  city  of New York, as added by section 4 of part K of chapter 36 of
 the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   b. The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process
 which shall review twenty-five percent of applications for  a  temporary
 major   capital  improvement  increase  that  have  been  submitted  and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and document
 review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and responsi-
 bilities  under  the  law  for  temporary  major   capital   improvement
 increases.  Inspections  shall  include in-person confirmation that such
 improvements have been completed in such way as described in the  appli-
 cation.  THE  DIVISION SHALL CONSPICUOUSLY MAKE AVAILABLE ON ITS WEBSITE
 THE RESULTS OF EVERY ANNUAL AUDIT CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION
 AND SHALL PUBLISH NEW AUDIT RESULTS ON ITS WEBSITE ANNUALLY.
   § 3. Subdivision (b) of section 10-b of section 4 of  chapter  576  of
 the  laws  of  1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of
 nineteen seventy-four, as added by section 6 of part K of chapter 36  of
 the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   (b)  The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit proc-
 ess which shall review twenty-five percent of applications for a  tempo-
 rary  major  capital  improvement  increase that have been submitted and
 approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and document
 review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and responsi-
 bilities  under  the  law  for  temporary  major   capital   improvement
 increases.  Inspections  shall  include in-person confirmation that such
 improvements have been completed in such way as described in the  appli-
 cation.   THE DIVISION SHALL CONSPICUOUSLY MAKE AVAILABLE ON ITS WEBSITE
 THE RESULTS OF EVERY ANNUAL AUDIT CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION
 AND SHALL PUBLISH NEW AUDIT RESULTS ON ITS WEBSITE ANNUALLY.
   § 4. Subdivision 2 of section 8-a of chapter 274 of the laws of  1946,
 constituting the emergency housing rent control law, as added by section
 7  of  part  K  of chapter 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process
 which shall review twenty-five percent of applications for  a  temporary
 major   capital  improvement  increase  that  have  been  submitted  and
 approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and document
 review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and responsi-
 bilities  under  the  law  for  temporary  major   capital   improvement
 increases.    Inspections shall include in-person confirmation that such
 improvements have been completed in such way as described in the  appli-
 cation.   THE DIVISION SHALL CONSPICUOUSLY MAKE AVAILABLE ON ITS WEBSITE
 THE RESULTS OF EVERY ANNUAL AUDIT CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION
 AND SHALL PUBLISH NEW AUDIT RESULTS ON ITS WEBSITE ANNUALLY.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
 ments  to  section 26-405.1 of the city rent and rehabilitation law made
 by section one of this act shall remain in full force and effect only as
 long as the public emergency requiring the  regulation  and  control  of
 residential  rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3
 of section 1 of the  local  emergency  housing  rent  control  act;  and
 provided  that  the amendments to section 26-511.1 of chapter 4 of title
 26 of the administrative code of the city of New York  made  by  section
 two  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.