Assembly Bill A5525

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  5525

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 13, 2009
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Introduced  by  M. of A. V. LOPEZ, P. RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
  of A. GLICK, GOTTFRIED, GREENE, PERRY -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Housing

AN ACT to amend the multiple dwelling law, in  relation  to  changes  of
  name, address, telephone number and other particulars of present owner
  of a building for purposes of enforcement of housing maintenance code,
  city  rent  and rehabilitation law and rent stabilization law of nine-
  teen hundred sixty-nine

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

  Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 325 of the multiple dwelling law,
as amended by chapter 805 of the laws of 1984, is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1.  Every owner of a multiple dwelling, every lessee of a whole dwell-
ing and every agent or other person having control of such  a  dwelling,
shall  file  in  the  department  a  notice  containing his OR HER name,
address and a description of the premises, by street  number  or  other-
wise,  and the class and kind of the dwelling thereon, in such manner as
will enable the department to find the same;  and  also  the  number  of
apartments  and rooms in each apartment on each story, and the number of
families occupying the apartments. If such owner or lessee be  a  corpo-
ration,  other  than a banking organization as defined in section two of
the banking law, a national banking association, a federal  savings  and
loan  association,  The  Mortgage  Facilities Corporation, Savings Banks
Life Insurance Fund, The Savings Banks Retirement System, an  authorized
insurer as defined in section one hundred seven of the insurance law, or
a  trust  company  or other corporation organized under the laws of this
state all the capital stock of which is owned by at least twenty savings
banks or a subsidiary corporation all of the capital stock of  which  is
owned  by  such  trust company or other corporation, the names and resi-
dence addresses of its officers shall also be contained in such  notice.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08980-01-9
              

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A similar notice shall be filed within thirty days following an election
of  any  new  officer  or a change of address of any such officer OR ANY
OTHER INFORMATION REQUIRED HEREUNDER.   The provisions of  this  section
also  shall  apply  to  successors in title, ownership or control of any
premises, whether by act of the parties or by process  or  operation  of
law  and,  within thirty days after such succession, particulars of such
ownership or control shall be filed in the department. If any  successor
in  interest  be  under  the  age  of  twenty-one  years his OR HER duly
appointed guardian or, if there be no guardian, his OR HER administrator
shall comply with this section in his OR HER behalf.   Where  after  the
filing  of  any  notice under this section, the premises shall have been
declared a public nuisance to any extent  pursuant  to  paragraph  b  of
subdivision  one  of section three hundred nine of this chapter and such
declaration shall have been filed as therein provided, the owner,  if  a
corporation, other than a banking organization as defined in section two
of  the  banking  law, a national banking association, a federal savings
and loan association, The Mortgage Facilities Corporation, Savings Banks
Life Insurance Fund, The Savings Banks Retirement System, an  authorized
insurer as defined in section one hundred seven of the insurance law, or
a  trust  company  or other corporation organized under the laws of this
state all the capital stock of which is owned by at least twenty savings
banks or a subsidiary corporation all of the capital stock of  which  is
owned  by  such trust company or other corporation, shall file a similar
notice within ten days which shall in  addition  contain  the  name  and
residence  and  business address of each director and stockholder of the
corporation and of each person known to have any beneficial interest  in
such stock.
  S  2.  Section 325 of the multiple dwelling law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
  3. WHENEVER AN ADDRESS OF AN  OWNER,  LISTED  OFFICER,  LESSEE  OF  AN
ENTIRE MULTIPLE DWELLING OR MANAGING AGENT IS REQUIRED TO BE INCLUDED IN
THE NOTICE, REGISTRATION STATEMENT OR AMENDED REGISTRATION STATEMENT, IN
CITIES OF OVER ONE MILLION, PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE OR PURSUANT TO SUCH
LOCAL  LAW  OR  CODE, A STREET NAME AND NUMBER FOR SUCH ADDRESS SHALL BE
PROVIDED.
  S 3. This act shall take  effect  on  the  first  of  the  month  next
succeeding the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.