Senate Bill S4485A

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Includes landlord training classes in the definitions of neighborhood preservation activities and housing preservation and community renewal activities

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S4485 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5393
Law Section:
Private Housing Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§902 & 1002, Priv Hous Fin L

2021-S4485 - Summary

Includes landlord training classes in the definitions of neighborhood preservation activities and housing preservation and community renewal activities.

2021-S4485 - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4485 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4485
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 5, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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 private housing finance law, in relation to includ-
   ing landlord training classes in the definition of neighborhood  pres-
   ervation 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
 occupants thereof or to cooperative groups whose members shall be  occu-

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

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2021-S4485A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5393
Law Section:
Private Housing Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§902 & 1002, Priv Hous Fin L

2021-S4485A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes landlord training classes in the definitions of neighborhood preservation activities and housing preservation and community renewal activities.

2021-S4485A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4485A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4485--A
     Cal. No. 817
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 5, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and  when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on Housing,
   Construction and Community Development -- reported favorably from said
   committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered  to  a  third
   reading,  passed  by  Senate  and delivered to the Assembly, recalled,
   vote reconsidered, restored to  third  reading,  amended  and  ordered
   reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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