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November 6, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Dinowitz) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT in relation to enacting the "pandemic self-storage act"
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
the "pandemic self-storage act".
§ 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of article eight of the lien law,
no owner of a self-service storage facility, as those terms are defined
in section 182 of the lien law, shall enforce a lien held upon personal
property stored at a self-service storage facility by public or private
sale during the COVID-19 covered period.
§ 3. For the purposes of this act, the COVID-19 covered period shall
include March 7, 2020 through the end of the state of emergency in the
state of New York plus one full year. For the purposes of this act, the
state of emergency period includes, but is not limited to, any period
referenced in executive order numbers 202, 202.8, 202.28 of 2020 and any
other executive order that closed or otherwise restricted public or
private businesses or places of public accommodation, or required post-
ponement or cancellation of all non-essential gatherings of individuals
of any size for any reason in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, within
the state of New York.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD17546-02-0