Assembly Bill A991

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Prohibits a county rent guidelines board from establishing rent adjustments for class A dwelling units based on certain considerations

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee


  • 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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2013-A991 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1806
Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974
Laws Affected:
Amd §4, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §26-510, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A7234, S5603
2015-2016: A1950, S1786
2017-2018: A5090
2019-2020: A595

2013-A991 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits a county rent guidelines board from establishing rent adjustments for class A dwelling units based on the current rental cost of a unit or on the amount of time that has elapsed since another rent increase authorized was authorized.

2013-A991 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                   991

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, GLICK, JACOBS, GOTTFRIED,
  ABINANTI, STEVENSON, ROBINSON, MAISEL, BARRON, COLTON, CASTRO, GIBSON,
  COOK, WRIGHT, HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, MARKEY
  -- 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 prohibiting a county rent guidelines board from establish-
  ing rent adjustments for class  A  dwelling  units  based  on  certain
  considerations

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

  Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision  b  of  section  4  of
section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency
tenant  protection  act  of nineteen seventy-four, as amended by chapter
403 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
  A county rent guidelines board shall establish annually guidelines for
rent adjustments which, at its sole discretion may be varied and differ-
ent for and within the several zones and jurisdictions of the board, and
in determining whether rents for housing accommodations as to  which  an
emergency  has  been  declared  pursuant  to this act shall be adjusted,
shall consider among other things (1)  the  economic  condition  of  the
residential  real  estate  industry  in the affected area including such
factors as the prevailing and projected (i) real estate taxes and  sewer
and  water  rates,  (ii)  gross  operating  maintenance costs (including
insurance rates, governmental fees, cost of fuel and labor costs), (iii)
costs and availability of financing (including effective rates of inter-
est), (iv) over-all supply of housing accommodations and over-all vacan-
cy rates, (2) relevant data from  the  current  and  projected  cost  of
living indices for the affected area, (3) such other data as may be made
available to it. As soon as practicable after its creation and thereaft-

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

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