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                                   3185
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 20, 2017
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 Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, HAMILTON, MONTGOMERY, PERKINS -- 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, the emergency housing rent control law and the New York  city
   charter,  in relation to investigations and inspections by the city of
   New York
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. 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 is amended by adding a new paragraph 9 to read as
 follows:
   (9) THE STATE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL MAY  AUTHORIZE
 THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  HOUSING PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF
 NEW YORK, OR ITS SUCCESSOR AGENCY, TO EXERCISE  ANY  OF  THE  DIVISION'S
 POWERS UNDER THIS ACT WITHIN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, PURSUANT TO AGREEMENT
 WITH THAT DEPARTMENT OR AGENCY.
   §  2.  Subdivision  1 of section 6 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946,
 constituting the emergency housing rent control law, as amended by chap-
 ter 337 of the laws of 1961, is amended to read as follows:
   1.   (A) THE STATE DIVISION  OF  HOUSING  AND  COMMUNITY  RENEWAL  MAY
 AUTHORIZE  THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE
 CITY OF NEW YORK, OR ITS SUCCESSOR AGENCY, TO EXERCISE ANY OF THE  DIVI-
 SION'S  POWERS  UNDER  THIS LAW WITHIN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, PURSUANT TO
 AGREEMENT WITH THAT DEPARTMENT OR AGENCY.
   (B) The commission is authorized to make  such  studies  and  investi-
 gations, to conduct such hearings, and to obtain such information as the
 commission  deems  necessary  or proper in prescribing any regulation or
 order under this act or in the administration and  enforcement  of  this
 act and regulations and orders thereunder.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   §  3. Section 1802 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7.  ALL  POWERS,  RIGHTS  AND  DUTIES AUTHORIZED BY AND PURSUANT TO AN
 AGREEMENT WITH THE NEW YORK STATE  DIVISION  OF  HOUSING  AND  COMMUNITY
 RENEWAL,  OR ITS SUCCESSOR AGENCY, UNDER SECTION TWELVE OF THE EMERGENCY
 TENANT PROTECTION ACT OF NINETEEN SEVENTY-FOUR AND  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF
 SECTION SIX OF THE EMERGENCY HOUSING RENT CONTROL LAW.
   §  4. Severability.   If any provision of this act, or any application
 of any provision of this act, is held to  be  invalid,  that  shall  not
 affect the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act,
 or  of  any  other application of any provision of this act or any other
 provision of any law or code amended by this act.
   § 5.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
 ments to section 12 of the emergency tenant protection act  of  nineteen
 seventy-four  made  by  section one of this act shall expire on the same
 date as such act expires and shall not affect the expiration of such act
 as provided in section 17 of chapter  576  of  the  laws  of  1974;  and
 provided  that  the  amendments  to section six of the emergency housing
 rent control law 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 in subdivision 2 of section 1 of chapter 274 of the
 laws of 1946.