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                                  5473

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 27, 2013
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Introduced  by  M.  of A. WRIGHT, ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Housing

AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of  nineteen  seven-
  ty-four  and  the  administrative  code  of  the  city of New York, in
  relation to the regulation of rents

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

  Section 1. Subdivision (a-2) of section 10 of section 4 of chapter 576
of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of
nineteen  seventy-four, as amended by section 13 of part B of chapter 97
of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  (a-2) Provides that where the amount of rent charged to  and  paid  by
the  tenant is less than the legal regulated rent for the housing accom-
modation, the amount of rent for such housing accommodation which may be
charged [upon renewal or] upon vacancy thereof may, at the option of the
owner, be based upon such previously established legal  regulated  rent,
as adjusted by [the most recent] ALL applicable guidelines increases and
other  increases authorized by law; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH VACANCY
SHALL NOT BE CAUSED BY THE FAILURE OF THE  OWNER  OR  AN  AGENT  OF  THE
OWNER,  TO  MAINTAIN  THE  HOUSING  ACCOMMODATION IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE
WARRANTY OF HABITABILITY SET FORTH IN SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  SECTION  TWO
HUNDRED  THIRTY-FIVE-B  OF  THE REAL PROPERTY LAW.  Where, subsequent to
vacancy, such legal regulated rent,  as  adjusted  by  the  most  recent
applicable  guidelines  increases  and any other increases authorized by
law is two thousand dollars or more per month or, for any housing accom-
modation which is or becomes vacant on or after the  effective  date  of
the  rent  act of 2011, is two thousand five hundred dollars or more per
month, such housing accommodation shall be excluded from the  provisions
of  this  act pursuant to paragraph thirteen of subdivision a of section
five of this act.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  S 2. Paragraph 14 of subdivision c of section 26-511 of  the  adminis-
trative code of the city of New York, as amended by section 14 of part B
of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  (14) provides that where the amount of rent charged to and paid by the
tenant  is  less  than the legal regulated rent for the housing accommo-
dation, the amount of rent for such housing accommodation which  may  be
charged [upon renewal or] upon vacancy thereof may, at the option of the
owner,  be  based upon such previously established legal regulated rent,
as adjusted by the most recent applicable guidelines increases  and  any
other  increases authorized by law; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH VACANCY
SHALL NOT BE CAUSED BY THE FAILURE OF THE  OWNER  OR  AN  AGENT  OF  THE
OWNER,  TO  MAINTAIN  THE  HOUSING  ACCOMMODATION IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE
WARRANTY OF HABITABILITY SET FORTH IN SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  SECTION  TWO
HUNDRED  THIRTY-FIVE-B  OF  THE REAL PROPERTY LAW.  Where, subsequent to
vacancy, such legal regulated rent, as adjusted by [the most recent] ALL
applicable guidelines increases and any other  increases  authorized  by
law is two thousand dollars or more per month or, for any housing accom-
modation  which  is  or becomes vacant on or after the effective date of
the rent act of 2011, is two thousand five hundred dollars or  more  per
month,  such housing accommodation shall be excluded from the provisions
of this law pursuant to section 26-504.2 of this chapter.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
the  amendments  to section 10 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, further, that the amendments to section 26-511 of the rent
stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine 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 under section 26-520 of
such law.