§ 8. Administration. a. Whenever a city having a population of less
than one million, or a town or village has determined the existence of
an emergency pursuant to section three of this act, the state division
of housing and community renewal shall be designated as the sole
administrative agency to administer the regulation of residential rents
as provided in this act. The costs incurred by the state division of
housing and community renewal in administering such regulation shall be
paid by such city, town or village. Such local resolution shall
forthwith be transmitted to the state division of housing and community
renewal and shall be accompanied by an initial payment in an amount
previously determined by the commissioner of housing and community
renewal as necessary to defray the division's anticipated first year
cost. Thereafter, annually, after the close of the fiscal year of the
state, the commissioner of housing and community renewal shall determine
the amount of all costs incurred and shall certify to each such city,
town or village its proportionate share of such costs, after first
deducting therefrom the amount of such initial payment. The amount so
certified shall be paid to the commissioner by such city, town or
village within ninety days after the receipt of such certification. In
the event that the amount thereof is not paid to the commissioner as
herein prescribed, the commissioner shall certify the unpaid amount to
the comptroller, and the comptroller shall withhold such amount from the
next succeeding payment of per capita assistance to be apportioned to
such city, town or village.

b. The legislative body of any city, town or village acting to impose
regulation of residential rents pursuant to the provisions of this act
may impose on the owner of every building containing housing
accommodations subject to such regulation an annual charge for each such
accommodation in such amount as it determines to be necessary for the
expenses to be incurred in the administration of such regulation.

c. Whenever a city having a population of one million or more has
determined the existence of an emergency pursuant to section three of
this act, the provisions of this act and the New York city rent
stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall be administered
by the state division of housing and community renewal as provided in
the New York city rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine,
as amended, or as otherwise provided by law. The costs incurred by the
state division of housing and community renewal in administering such
regulation shall be paid by such city. All payments for such
administration shall be transmitted to the state division of housing and
community renewal as follows: on or after April first of each year
commencing with April, nineteen hundred eighty-four, the commissioner of
housing and community renewal, in consultation with the director of the
budget, shall determine an amount necessary to defray the division's
anticipated annual cost, and one-quarter of such amount shall be paid by
such city on or before July first of such year, one-quarter of such
amount on or before October first of such year, one-quarter of such
amount on or before January first of the following year and one-quarter
of such amount on or before March thirty-first of the following year.
After the close of the fiscal year of the state, the commissioner, in
consultation with the director of the budget, shall determine the amount
of all actual costs incurred in such fiscal year and shall certify such
amount to such city. If such certified amount shall differ from the
amount paid by the city for such fiscal year, appropriate adjustments
shall be made in the next quarterly payment to be made by such city. In
the event that the amount thereof is not paid to the commissioner, in
consultation with the director of the budget, as herein prescribed, the
commissioner, in consultation with the director of the budget, shall
certify the unpaid amount to the comptroller, and the comptroller shall,
to the extent not otherwise prohibited by law, withhold such amount from
any state aid payable to such city. In no event shall the amount imposed
on the owners exceed twenty dollars per unit per year.

d. Notwithstanding subdivision c of this section or any other
provision of law to the contrary, whenever the state has incurred any
costs as a result of administering the rent regulation program for a
city having a population of one million or more in accordance with
subdivision c of this section, on or after April first of each year, the
commissioner of housing and community renewal, in consultation with the
director of the budget, shall determine an amount necessary to defray
the state's anticipated annual cost. In the event that the division does
not send a bill to the city to defray such costs in accordance with
subdivision c of this section, it shall submit to the city an invoice
showing all such costs as soon as practicable after the start of the
state fiscal year in which the costs are to be incurred. The director of
the budget may direct any other state agency to reduce the amount of any
other payment or payments owed to such city or any department, agency,
or instrumentality thereof; provided however, that such reduction shall
be made no sooner than thirty days after the transmittal of the invoice
of costs, and shall be in an amount equal to the costs incurred by the
state in administering the rent regulation program for such city in
accordance with subdivision c of this section. Within thirty days of the
receipt of the invoice of costs, the city may send to the division, in
written form, requests for additional information relating to such
costs, including any recommendations on which local assistance payment
would be reduced. If the director of the budget makes such direction in
accordance with this subdivision, the impacted city shall not make the
payments required by subdivision c of this section, and the division of
housing and community renewal shall notify such city in writing of what
payment or payments will be reduced and the amount of the reduction and
shall suballocate, as necessary, the value of the costs it incurred to
the agency or agencies which reduces the payments to such city or any
department, agency or authority thereof in accordance with this
subdivision.

e. The failure to pay the prescribed assessment not to exceed twenty
dollars per unit for any housing accommodation subject to this act or
the New York city rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine
shall constitute a charge due and owing such city, town or village which
has imposed an annual charge for each such housing accommodation
pursuant to subdivision b of this section. Any such city, town or
village shall be authorized to provide for the enforcement of the
collection of such charges by commencing an action or proceeding for the
recovery of such fees or by the filing of a lien upon the building and
lot. Such methods for the enforcement of the collection of such charges
shall be the sole remedy for the enforcement of this section.

f. The division shall maintain at least one office in each county
which is governed by the rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred
sixty-nine or this act; provided, however, that the division shall not
be required to maintain an office in the counties of Nassau, Rockland,
or Richmond.