Assembly Bill A9020

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to grounds where no landlord-tenant relationships exist in cooperative apartments

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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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2021-A9020 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7735
Law Section:
General Obligations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §7-108, Gen Ob L; amd §238-a, RP L (as proposed in S.5105-C & A.350-C)

2021-A9020 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Delineates instances where no landlord-tenant relationships exist in cooperative apartments.

2021-A9020 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9020
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 20, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the general obligations law and the real  property  law,
   in  relation  to  excluding tenant-shareholders in cooperative housing
   corporations from certain housing provisions
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a) of subdivision 1-a of section 7-108 of the
 general obligations law, as separately amended  by  chapter  428  and  a
 chapter  of  the  laws of 2021 amending the general obligations law, the
 real property law, and the real property  actions  and  proceedings  law
 relating  to excluding tenant-shareholders in cooperative housing corpo-
 rations from certain housing  provisions,  as  proposed  in  legislative
 bills numbers S. 5105-C and A. 350-C, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) No deposit or advance shall exceed the amount of one month's rent,
 unless  the  deposit  or  advance is for a seasonal use dwelling unit as
 provided for in subdivisions four and five of this  section,  OR  unless
 the deposit or advance is for an owner-occupied cooperative apartment as
 provided for in subdivision [four] SIX of this section.
   § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 7-108 of the general obligations law, as
 amended  by  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2021 amending the general obli-
 gations law, the real property law, and the real  property  actions  and
 proceedings law relating to excluding tenant-shareholders in cooperative
 housing  corporations  from  certain  housing provisions, as proposed in
 legislative bills numbers S. 5105-C and A. 350-C, is renumbered subdivi-
 sion 6 and is amended to read as follows:
   6. A dwelling unit shall  qualify  as  an  owner-occupied  cooperative
 apartment  for the purpose of paragraph (a) of subdivision one-a of this
 section if it meets all of the following conditions:
   (a) the tenant is the dwelling unit owner, purchaser or shareholder of
 such a cooperative housing corporation;
   (b) such tenant has or will have after purchase exclusive occupancy of
 such dwelling unit individually and with the permitted occupants  pursu-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03421-16-2
              

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