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                                   8585
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 13, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DeSTE-
   FANO,  EPSTEIN,  MOSLEY,  NIOU,  RICHARDSON,  L. ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT,
   TAGUE, TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city  of  New  York,  the
   emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer-
   gency  housing  rent  control  law,  in  relation  to requiring annual
   inspections for any increase in rent due to a major  capital  improve-
   ment
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision b of section  26-511.1  of  the  administrative
 code of the city of New York, as added by section 4 of part K of chapter
 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   b. The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process
 which  shall  review  [twenty-five  percent  of] ALL applications for [a
 temporary] ANY major capital improvement increase that have been submit-
 ted and approved. Such process shall include individual inspections  and
 document  review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and
 responsibilities under the law for [temporary] major capital improvement
 increases. Inspections shall include in-person  confirmation  that  such
 improvements  have been completed in such way as described in the appli-
 cation.
   § 2. Subdivision b of section 26-405.1 of the administrative  code  of
 the  city  of New York, as added by section 5 of part K of chapter 36 of
 the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   b. The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process
 which shall review [twenty-five percent  of]  ALL  applications  for  [a
 temporary] ANY major capital improvement increase that have been submit-
 ted  and approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and
 document review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations  and
 responsibilities under the law for [temporary] major capital improvement
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 increases.  Inspections  shall  include in-person confirmation that such
 improvements have been completed in such way as described in the  appli-
 cation.
   §  3.  Subdivision  (b) of section 10-b of section 4 of chapter 576 of
 the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant  protection  act  of
 nineteen  seventy-four, as added by section 6 of part K of chapter 36 of
 the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   (b) The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit  proc-
 ess  which shall review [twenty-five percent of] ALL applications for [a
 temporary] ANY major capital improvement increase that have been submit-
 ted and approved. Such process shall include individual inspections  and
 document  review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and
 responsibilities under the law for [temporary] major capital improvement
 increases. Inspections shall include in-person  confirmation  that  such
 improvements  have been completed in such way as described in the appli-
 cation.
   § 4. Subdivision 2 of section 8-a of chapter 274 of the laws of  1946,
 constituting the emergency housing rent control law, as added by section
 7  of  part  K  of chapter 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process
 which shall review [twenty-five percent  of]  ALL  applications  for  [a
 temporary] ANY major capital improvement increase that have been submit-
 ted  and approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and
 document review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations  and
 responsibilities under the law for [temporary] major capital improvement
 increases.  Inspections  shall  include in-person confirmation that such
 improvements have been completed in such way as described in the  appli-
 cation.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that:
   (a)  the  amendments to section 26-511.1 of the administrative code of
 the city of New York made by section one of this act shall expire on the
 same date as such section expires and shall not affect the expiration of
 such section as provided under section 26-520 of such law;
   (b) the amendments to section 26-405.1 of the city rent and  rehabili-
 tation  law  made  by section two of this act shall remain in full force
 and effect only as long as the public emergency requiring the regulation
 and control of residential rents and evictions continues, as provided in
 subdivision 3 of section 1 of the local emergency housing  rent  control
 act; and
   (c)  effective  immediately,  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of
 any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this  act  on
 its  effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.