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Senate Bill S4571

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires the NYC housing authority to include a notice informing a prospective tenant or tenant of the ability to add legal occupants to the lease or renewal lease

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2015-S4571 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1477
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง402, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S7553, A8605
2017-2018: A5555
2019-2020: A5410

2015-S4571 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the NYC housing authority to include a notice informing a prospective tenant or tenant of the ability to add legal occupants to the lease or renewal lease and to provide a form to add the additional legal occupants.

2015-S4571 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4571 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4571

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 30, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
  Community Development

AN  ACT  to  amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring that
  the New York city housing  authority  include  a  notice  informing  a
  prospective  tenant or tenant of the ability to add legal occupants to
  the lease or renewal lease, and provide, upon request, a tenant with a
  form to add additional legal occupants

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

  Section  1. Subdivisions 7, 8 and 9 of section 402 of the public hous-
ing law, subdivision 8 as renumbered by chapter 467 of the laws of 1971,
are renumbered subdivisions 8, 9 and 10 and a new subdivision 7 is added
to read as follows:
  7. A. THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY SHALL  INCLUDE,  ALONG  WITH
EVERY  LEASE OR RENEWAL LEASE OFFERED TO A PROSPECTIVE TENANT OR CURRENT
TENANT,  A  SEPARATE,  CLEAR  AND  CONSPICUOUS  NOTICE,  IN   AT   LEAST
SIXTEEN-POINT  BOLDFACE  TYPE,  CONCERNING  THE  TENANT'S ABILITY TO ADD
ADDITIONAL LEGAL OCCUPANTS TO THE LEASE AGREEMENT.
  B. UPON RECEIPT OF A TENANT'S REQUEST FOR A FORM TO ADD AN  ADDITIONAL
LEGAL  OCCUPANT,  THE  AUTHORITY  SHALL,  WITHIN SEVEN DAYS, PROVIDE THE
TENANT WITH THE APPROPRIATE FORM, ALONG  WITH  A  NOTICE  INFORMING  THE
TENANT  OF  THE  RIGHT TO CONTEST THE DENIAL OF ANY OCCUPANCY PERMISSION
REQUEST.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02249-01-5

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