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                                  4485--A
     Cal. No. 817
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 5, 2021
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 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
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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-
 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.