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Senate Bill S5724

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Prohibits certain owner occupancy evictions

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2019-S5724 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §26-511, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S6827
2023-2024: S7606

2019-S5724 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the owner of a building from declining to renew a lease to a tenant whose lease term started prior to the owner's purchase of the building on the grounds of occupancy by the owner or an immediate family member.

2019-S5724 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5724 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5724
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 13, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- 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  administrative code of the city of New York, in
   relation to prohibiting the owner of  a  building  from  declining  to
   renew  a  lease  to  a  tenant  whose  lease term started prior to the
   owner's purchase of the building on the grounds of  occupancy  by  the
   owner or an immediate family member
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (b) of paragraph 9 of subdivision c of section
 26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended  to
 read as follows:
   (b)  where he or she seeks to recover possession of one or more dwell-
 ing units for his or her own personal use and occupancy as  his  or  her
 primary  residence  in the city of New York and/or for the use and occu-
 pancy of a member of his or her immediate family as his or  her  primary
 residence  in the city of New York, provided however, that this subpara-
 graph shall not apply where THE TENANT'S INITIAL TENANCY, OR THE INITIAL
 TENANCY OF  ANY  FAMILY  MEMBER  OF  THE  TENANT  TO  WHICH  THE  TENANT
 SUCCEEDED,  COMMENCED  BEFORE THE OWNER ACQUIRED THE BUILDING CONTAINING
 SUCH DWELLING UNITS. FURTHERMORE,  THIS  SUBPARAGRAPH  SHALL  NOT  APPLY
 WHERE a tenant or the spouse of a tenant lawfully occupying the dwelling
 unit  is  sixty-two  years  of  age or older, or has an impairment which
 results from  anatomical,  physiological  or  psychological  conditions,
 other  than addiction to alcohol, gambling, or any controlled substance,
 which are demonstrable by medically acceptable clinical  and  laboratory
 diagnostic  techniques, and which are expected to be permanent and which
 prevent the tenant from engaging in any substantial gainful  employment,
 unless such owner offers to provide and if requested, provides an equiv-
 alent  or superior housing accommodation at the same or lower stabilized
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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