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Assembly Bill A597

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Includes additional community districts in which pilot programs to address the legalization or conversion of certain basement and cellar dwellings can be established by local law

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2025-A597 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2507
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Multiple Dwelling Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §289, Mult Dwell L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10249, S9272

2025-A597 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes additional community districts in which pilot programs to address the legalization or conversion of certain basement and cellar dwellings can be established by local law.

2025-A597 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    597
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS, EPSTEIN, BORES, RAGA, LEVENBERG,
   CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the multiple dwelling law, in relation to the  community
   districts  in  which  pilot  programs  to  address the legalization or
   conversion of certain basement and cellar dwellings can be established
   by local law
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 289 of the multiple dwelling law,
 as added by section 1 of part S of chapter 56 of the laws  of  2024,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   4.  The  program  established  by a local law enacted pursuant to this
 section shall be applicable only within community districts selected  by
 the  local  legislative  body  from  the following list: Bronx Community
 District nine; Bronx Community District ten;  Bronx  Community  District
 eleven;  Bronx  Community  District  twelve; Brooklyn Community District
 four; BROOKLYN COMMUNITY DISTRICT FIVE; Brooklyn Community District ten;
 Brooklyn Community District eleven; Brooklyn Community  District  seven-
 teen;  Manhattan  Community  District  two; Manhattan Community District
 three; Manhattan Community District nine; Manhattan  Community  District
 ten;  Manhattan  Community District eleven; Manhattan Community District
 twelve; [and] QUEENS COMMUNITY DISTRICT ONE; Queens  Community  District
 two;  QUEENS  COMMUNITY  DISTRICT  THREE;  AND QUEENS COMMUNITY DISTRICT
 FOUR. Prior to the adoption of the local law authorized by this section,
 but no later than ninety days after the effective date of this  article,
 the  community  board  of a community district named in this subdivision
 may adopt and submit to the speaker of the city council a resolution  in
 support  or opposition of the inclusion of the community district in the
 program established by the local law authorized by this article.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
 have been in full force and effect on and after April 20, 2024.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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