Assembly Bill A3974

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides that a child regardless of age who has lived with a tenant parent for two years or more in a rent-regulated apartment shall be deemed a tenant

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

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2015-A3974 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3090
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §26-403, add §26-504.4, NYC Ad Cd; add §14, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1294, S1442
2011-2012: A3021, S1305
2013-2014: A3120, S503
2017-2018: A5792, S2144

2015-A3974 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a child (regardless of age) who has lived with a tenant parent for two years or more in rent-regulated housing accommodations shall be deemed a tenant of such housing accommodations for the purposes of the rent-regulating laws.

2015-A3974 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3974

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 28, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Housing

AN  ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the
  emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in  relation
  to the definition of a tenant

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

  Section 1. Subdivision m of section 26-403 of the administrative  code
of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
  m.  "Tenant."  A tenant, subtenant, lessee, sublessee, or other person
entitled to the possession or to the use or  occupancy  of  any  housing
accommodation.  THE  TERM  TENANT  SHALL  BE  DEEMED  TO INCLUDE A CHILD
(REGARDLESS OF AGE) WHO HAS RESIDED WITH HIS OR HER PARENT FOR TWO YEARS
OR MORE IN A HOUSING ACCOMMODATION SUBJECT TO  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS
CHAPTER AND OF WHICH SUCH PARENT IS A TENANT.
  S  2.  The  administrative  code of the city of New York is amended by
adding a new section 26-504.4 to read as follows:
  S 26-504.4 TENANT; DEFINITION. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS  CHAPTER,  THE
TERM  TENANT  SHALL BE DEEMED TO INCLUDE A CHILD (REGARDLESS OF AGE) WHO
HAS RESIDED WITH HIS OR HER PARENT FOR TWO YEARS OR MORE  IN  A  HOUSING
ACCOMMODATION  SUBJECT  TO  THE  PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER AND OF WHICH
SUCH PARENT IS A TENANT.
  S 3. Section 14 of section 4 of chapter  576  of  the  laws  of  1974,
constituting  the  emergency  tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-
four, is renumbered section 15 and a new section 14 to read as follows:
  S 14.  TENANT; DEFINITION. FOR THE PURPOSES  OF  THIS  ACT,  THE  TERM
TENANT  SHALL  BE  DEEMED TO INCLUDE A CHILD (REGARDLESS OF AGE) WHO HAS
RESIDED WITH HIS OR HER PARENT FOR TWO YEARS OR MORE IN A HOUSING ACCOM-
MODATION SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT AND OF WHICH SUCH  PARENT
IS A TENANT.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05291-01-5

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