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Assembly Bill A2734

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires cooperative corporations to provide reasons for withholding consent to sell stock to cooperatively held housing units

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2009-A2734 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §296, Exec L; add §278-b, RP L

2009-A2734 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires cooperative corporations to provide reasons for withholding consent to sell stock to cooperatively held housing units; defines discriminatory practice by cooperative corporation boards; requires certified written statement of reasons, within five business days; allows for amendments or supplements within ten days

2009-A2734 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  2734

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 21, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BENJAMIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the executive law and the real property law, in relation
  to  prompt and fair disclosure of consent in the sale of cooperatively
  held housing units

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

  Section  1.  Legislative  findings.  The legislature hereby finds that
there is wide spread resistance on the part of cooperative  corporations
to  provide  reasons when such corporations withhold consent to the sale
of cooperatively owned apartments. The unwillingness to provide  reasons
has  frequently  served to conceal both arbitrary refusals to consent to
sales and discriminatory refusals to consent to sales. The  wide  spread
failure  to  provide reasons for withholding consent has interfered with
economic transactions, limited mobility, exacerbated  housing  shortages
by  impeding  the optimal efficiency of the housing market and has rein-
forced economic, racial and other forms of segregation in housing.
  Therefore, the legislature finds that it is  in  the  public  interest
that the withholding of consent to a sale of apartments on a discrimina-
tory  basis  be  prohibited  and  to require cooperative corporations to
disclose, in a timely manner, lawful reasons for withholding consent  to
the sale of cooperatively owned apartments.
  S  2.  Subdivision 5 of section 296 of the executive law is amended by
adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
  (H) IT SHALL BE AN UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICE FOR A  COOPERATIVE
CORPORATION  BOARD  TO:  (1) REFUSE TO CONSENT TO THE SALE OF A COOPERA-
TIVELY OWNED APARTMENT TO ANY PERSON OR GROUP OF PERSONS BECAUSE OF  THE
RACE,  CREED,  COLOR,  NATIONAL  ORIGIN,  SEXUAL  ORIENTATION,  MILITARY
STATUS, SEX, AGE, DISABILITY, MARITAL STATUS, OR FAMILIAL STATUS OF SUCH
PERSON OR PERSONS, OR (2) REPRESENT  THAT  ANY  SUCH  APARTMENT  IS  NOT
AVAILABLE  FOR  INSPECTION  OR  SALE,  WHEN IN FACT SUCH APARTMENT IS SO

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05345-01-9
              

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