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                                  5393--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 16, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee  on  Housing  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to includ-
   ing landlord training classes in the definitions of neighborhood pres-
   ervation activities and housing  preservation  and  community  renewal
   activities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 902 of the private housing finance
 law, as amended by chapter 295 of the laws of 2012, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   5.   "Neighborhood  preservation  activities"  shall  mean  activities
 engaged in by a neighborhood preservation  company  within  a  geograph-
 ically  defined  neighborhood of a municipality, provided, however, that
 the division may fund a neighborhood preservation company to  engage  in
 such  activities  in  unserved and underserved areas of the municipality
 lying outside of its initially designated neighborhood  area,  that  are
 designed   (a)  to  construct,  maintain,  preserve,  repair,  renovate,
 upgrade, improve,  modernize,  rehabilitate  or  otherwise  prolong  the
 useful  life and to manage and coordinate the rehabilitation of residen-
 tial dwelling accommodations within such neighborhood, to restore  aban-
 doned and vacant as well as occupied housing accommodations to habitable
 condition;  to  demolish  structurally  unsound  or  unsafe or otherwise
 unsightly or unhealthy structures which no longer serve or  can  econom-
 ically  be made to serve a useful purpose consistent with stabilizing or
 improving a neighborhood; to seal and maintain vacant  but  structurally
 sound  structures  which  are capable of being rehabilitated at a future
 time and used for  housing  purposes;  to  acquire,  where  appropriate,
 buildings which contain housing accommodations; to facilitate the dispo-
 sition  of  buildings  containing  housing  accommodations to individual

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 occupants thereof or to cooperative groups whose members shall be  occu-
 pants thereof; to assist owners, occupants and tenants of housing accom-
 modations  to obtain improvements in the physical conditions thereof and
 in the maintenance and management thereof; TO ADMINISTER LANDLORD TRAIN-
 ING  CLASSES;  and  to  manage  housing accommodations as agents for the
 owners thereof or administrators or receivers  appointed  or  designated
 pursuant to any law of the state; and (b) to accomplish similar purposes
 and meet similar needs with respect to retail and service establishments
 within  such neighborhoods when carried out in connection with and inci-
 dental to a program of housing related activities.
   § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 1002 of the private housing finance law,
 as amended by chapter 668 of the laws of 1985, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   5. "Housing preservation and community renewal activities" include (a)
 the  new  construction  or  the  acquisition, maintenance, preservation,
 repair, rehabilitation or other improvement of vacant or occupied  hous-
 ing  accommodations;  demolition  or  sealing of vacant structures where
 necessary or appropriate; disposition of housing accommodations to pres-
 ent or potential occupants or co-operative  organizations;  training  or
 other forms of assistance to occupants of housing accommodations; ADMIN-
 ISTRATION OF LANDLORD TRAINING CLASSES; and management of housing accom-
 modations  as agent for the owners, receivers, administrators or munici-
 palities; (b) activities, similar to those specified in paragraph (a) of
 this subdivision, aimed at accomplishing similar  purposes  and  meeting
 similar needs with respect to retail and service establishments within a
 region  when  carried out in connection with and incidental to a program
 of housing related activities.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.