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Assembly Bill A5792

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides that a child regardless of age who has lived with a tenant parent for two years or more in a rent-regulated apartment shall be deemed a tenant

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2017-A5792 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2144
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §26-403, add §26-504.4, NYC Ad Cd; add §14, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1294, S1442
2011-2012: A3021, S1305
2013-2014: A3120, S503
2015-2016: A3974, S3090

2017-A5792 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a child (regardless of age) who has lived with a tenant parent for two years or more in rent-regulated housing accommodations shall be deemed a tenant of such housing accommodations for the purposes of the rent-regulating laws.

2017-A5792 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5792
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 15, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CYMBROWITZ  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and  the
   emergency  tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in relation
   to the definition of a tenant

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision m of section 26-403 of the administrative code
 of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
   m. "Tenant." A tenant, subtenant, lessee, sublessee, or  other  person
 entitled  to  the  possession  or to the use or occupancy of any housing
 accommodation. THE TERM TENANT  SHALL  BE  DEEMED  TO  INCLUDE  A  CHILD
 (REGARDLESS OF AGE) WHO HAS RESIDED WITH HIS OR HER PARENT FOR TWO YEARS
 OR  MORE  IN  A  HOUSING ACCOMMODATION SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
 CHAPTER AND OF WHICH SUCH PARENT IS A TENANT.
   § 2. The administrative code of the city of New  York  is  amended  by
 adding a new section 26-504.4 to read as follows:
   §  26-504.4  TENANT; DEFINITION. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CHAPTER, THE
 TERM TENANT SHALL BE DEEMED TO INCLUDE A CHILD (REGARDLESS OF  AGE)  WHO
 HAS  RESIDED  WITH  HIS OR HER PARENT FOR TWO YEARS OR MORE IN A HOUSING
 ACCOMMODATION SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS  CHAPTER  AND  OF  WHICH
 SUCH PARENT IS A TENANT.
   §  3.  Section  14  of  section  4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974,
 constituting the emergency tenant protection act  of  nineteen  seventy-
 four,  is renumbered section 15 and a new section 14 is added to read as
 follows:
   § 14.  TENANT; DEFINITION. FOR THE PURPOSES  OF  THIS  ACT,  THE  TERM
 TENANT  SHALL  BE  DEEMED TO INCLUDE A CHILD (REGARDLESS OF AGE) WHO HAS
 RESIDED WITH HIS OR HER PARENT FOR TWO YEARS OR MORE IN A HOUSING ACCOM-
 MODATION SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT AND OF WHICH SUCH  PARENT
 IS A TENANT.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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