Assembly Bill A3033

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to recovery of certain housing accommodations by a landlord

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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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2011-A3033 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S81
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §§26-408 & 26-511, NYC Ad Cd; amd §10, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §5, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1685, S2642
2013-2014: S197
2015-2016: S107
2017-2018: S1792, S7020
2019-2020: S3116

2011-A3033 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to recovery of certain housing accommodations by a landlord; limits a landlord's ability to take possession of units for their own primary residence, permit recovery of only one unit, and restrict such ability if the tenant has occupied the apartment for twenty or more years.

2011-A3033 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3033

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 21, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. V. LOPEZ, GLICK, SILVER, ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED,
  KAVANAGH,  O'DONNELL,   FARRELL,   ORTIZ,   WRIGHT,   COLTON,   SPANO,
  BROOK-KRASNY  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M.   of A. CASTRO, DINOWITZ,
  JACOBS, JEFFRIES, MILLMAN, PERRY -- read  once  and  referred  to  the
  Committee on Housing

AN  ACT  to  amend  the administrative code of the city of New York, the
  emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer-
  gency housing rent control law, in relation  to  recovery  of  certain
  housing accommodations by a landlord

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision  b  of  section  26-408  of  the
administrative  code  of  the  city  of  New  York is amended to read as
follows:
  (1) The landlord seeks in good faith to recover possession of a  hous-
ing  accommodation because of immediate and compelling necessity for his
or her own personal use and occupancy AS HIS OR HER PRIMARY RESIDENCE or
for the use and occupancy of his or her immediate family AS THEIR PRIMA-
RY RESIDENCE provided,  however,  that  this  subdivision  shall  PERMIT
RECOVERY  OF  ONLY ONE HOUSING ACCOMMODATION AND SHALL not apply where a
member of the household lawfully occupying the housing accommodation  is
sixty-two years of age or older, has been a tenant in a housing accommo-
dation  in  that building for twenty years or more, or has an impairment
which results from anatomical,  physiological  or  psychological  condi-
tions,  other  than  addiction  to  alcohol, gambling, or any controlled
substance, which are demonstrable by medically acceptable  clinical  and
laboratory diagnostic techniques, and which are expected to be permanent
and  which  prevent  the tenant from engaging in any substantial gainful
employment; or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00443-01-1

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