Senate Bill S5953

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to rent regulation and real property tax abatements

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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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2015-S5953 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §17, Chap 576 of 1974; amd §1, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L; amd §2, Chap 329 of 1963; amd §10, Chap 555 of 1982; amd §4, Chap 402 of 1983; amd §46, Chap 116 of 1997; amd §§10 & 14, Pub Hous L; add §171-z, Tax L; amd §§26-516 & 26-413, NYC Ad Cd; amd §12, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974

2015-S5953 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to rent regulation and real property tax abatements.

2015-S5953 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S5953 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  5953

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 12, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend chapter 576 of the laws of 1974 amending  the  emergency
  housing  rent control law relating to the control of and stabilization
  of rent in certain cases, the  emergency  housing  rent  control  law,
  chapter  329  of  the laws of 1963 amending the emergency housing rent
  control law relating to recontrol of rents in Albany, chapter  555  of
  the laws of 1982 amending the general business law and the administra-
  tive  code  of the city of New York relating to conversion of residen-
  tial property to cooperative or condominium ownership in the  city  of
  New  York,  chapter 402 of the laws of 1983 amending the general busi-
  ness law relating to conversion  of  rental  residential  property  to
  cooperative  or condominium ownership in certain municipalities in the
  counties of Nassau, Westchester and Rockland and the  rent  regulation
  reform act of 1997, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof
  (Part A); to amend the public housing law, in relation to establishing
  a  tenant protection unit within the division of housing and community
  renewal (Part B); to amend the public housing law and the tax law,  in
  relation  to  income verification for rent controlled apartments (Part
  C); to amend the administrative code of the city of New York  and  the
  emergency  tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in relation
  to enforcement of rent control laws  (Part  D);  and  prohibiting  the
  subletting  of rent controlled apartments except under limited circum-
  stances (Part E)

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

  Section  1.  This  act enacts into law major components of legislation
relating to rent regulation  and  real  property  tax  abatements.  Each
component  is  wholly  contained  within  a  Part  identified as Parts A
through E. The effective date for each  particular  provision  contained
within  such  Part  is  set  forth in the last section of such Part. Any

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11446-06-5
              

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