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Assembly Bill A452

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to reregulating units that were illegally deregulated from rent control or rent stabilization

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2021-A452 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Add §26-504.1, NYC Ad Cd; add §5-a, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A5031
2023-2024: A729
2025-2026: A1959

2021-A452 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Reregulates units that were illegally deregulated from rent control or rent stabilization.

2021-A452 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    452
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- 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 reregulating  units  that  were  illegally  deregulated  from  rent
   control or rent stabilization
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is  amended
 by adding a new section 26-504.1 to read as follows:
   §  26-504.1 REREGULATION OF ILLEGALLY DEREGULATED UNITS. NOTWITHSTAND-
 ING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE  CONTRARY,  ANY  UNITS  THAT  WERE
 PREVIOUSLY  RENT CONTROLLED OR RENT STABILIZED UNDER THIS TITLE AND HAVE
 SINCE BEEN DEREGULATED, EXCEPT FOR THOSE  UNITS  DEREGULATED  UNDER  ANY
 APPLICABLE  PROVISION  OF LAW, SHALL BE RETURNED TO THEIR STATUS AS RENT
 STABILIZED OR RENT CONTROLLED UNITS AS SUCH  UNITS  WERE  PRIOR  TO  THE
 DEREGULATION.
   §  2.  Section  4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the
 emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, is amended  by
 adding a new section 5-a to read as follows:
   §  5-A.  REREGULATION  OF ILLEGALLY DEREGULATED UNITS. NOTWITHSTANDING
 ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, ANY UNITS THAT  WERE  PREVI-
 OUSLY  RENT  CONTROLLED  OR  RENT STABILIZED UNDER THIS CHAPTER AND HAVE
 SINCE BEEN DEREGULATED, EXCEPT FOR THOSE UNITS TO BE  DEREGULATED  UNDER
 ANY  APPLICABLE  PROVISION  OF LAW, SHALL BE RETURNED TO THEIR STATUS AS
 RENT STABILIZED OR RENT CONTROLLED UNITS AS SUCH UNITS WERE PRIOR TO THE
 DEREGULATION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law; provided that the amendments to chapter 4 of title 26
 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 law expires and  shall
 not  affect  the expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520

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