Assembly Bill A4911

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Prohibits warehousing of housing accommodations and harassment of tenants; provides penalties therefor

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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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2011-A4911 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1375
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §§26-412 & 26-516, NYC Ad Cd; amd §12, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1403, S1137
2013-2014: A4058, S1273
2015-2016: A4018, S2461
2017-2018: A5791, S5132
2019-2020: A4121, S2205
2021-2022: A3700, S3367
2023-2024: A4705, S1281

2011-A4911 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that penalties may be levied against a person who intentionally withholds a housing accommodation from the market, including for the purpose of future co-operative conversion.

2011-A4911 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4911

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 9, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Housing

AN  ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the
  emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in  relation
  to warehousing of housing accommodations and penalties therefor

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  Legislative findings and intent. The legislature finds and
declares that each person in the state shall have a right to  be  housed
and that such right to housing is a basic human right.
  The legislature further finds and declares that the practice of "ware-
housing",  that  is  of intentionally withholding housing accommodations
from the housing market, including the  withholding  of  apartments  for
purposes  of  future  co-operative apartment conversion, has contributed
significantly to the shortage of housing in this  state,  especially  in
the city of New York.
  The  legislature further finds and declares that the practice of ware-
housing has violated the right to housing of many of  the  citizens  and
residents of this state.
  It  is thus the intent of the legislature to eliminate the practice of
warehousing by providing strong penalties to deter such practice.
  S 2. Section 26-412 of the administrative code of the city of New York
is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows:
  G. IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL TO HARASS A TENANT TO OBTAIN VACANCY OF HIS OR
HER HOUSING ACCOMMODATION OR TO HAVE INTENTIONALLY  WITHHELD  A  HOUSING
ACCOMMODATION  FROM THE MARKET, INCLUDING WITHHOLDING SUCH ACCOMMODATION
FOR THE PURPOSE OF FUTURE CO-OPERATIVE APARTMENT CONVERSION.    FOR  THE
PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,  HARASSMENT  CONSISTS  OF ENGAGING IN A
COURSE OF CONDUCT OR REPEATEDLY COMMITTING ACTS WHICH ALARM OR SERIOUSLY
ANNOY A TENANT OR OTHER PERSON RESIDING IN THE TENANT'S HOUSING ACCOMMO-
DATION AND WHICH SERVE NO LEGITIMATE PURPOSE.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03140-01-1
              

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