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STATE OF NEW YORK
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8446

2011-2012 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

June 15, 2011
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Introduced  by M. of A. V. LOPEZ, SILVER -- (at request of the Governor)
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

AN ACT to amend chapter 576 of the laws of 1974 amending  the  emergency
  housing  rent control law relating to the control of and stabilization
  of rent in certain cases, the  emergency  housing  rent  control  law,
  chapter  329  of  the laws of 1963 amending the emergency housing rent
  control law relating to recontrol of rents in Albany, chapter  555  of
  the laws of 1982 amending the general business law and the administra-
  tive  code  of the city of New York relating to conversion of residen-
  tial  property to cooperative or condominium ownership in the city  of
  New  York,  chapter 402 of the laws of 1983 amending the general busi-
  ness law relating to conversions of  rental  residential  property  to
  cooperative  or condominium ownership in certain municipalities in the
  counties of Nassau, Westchester and Rockland and the  rent  regulation
  reform  act of 1997, in relation to extending the period of effective-
  ness thereof

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

  Section 1. Section 17 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, amending the
emergency  housing  rent  control  law  relating  to  the control of and
stabilization of rent in certain cases, as amended by chapter 82 of  the
laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  S  17.  Effective  date.    This act shall take effect immediately and
shall remain in full  force  and  effect  until  [and  including]  THREE
O'CLOCK  POST  MERIDIAN ON the [fifteenth] SEVENTEENTH day of June 2011;
except that sections two and three shall take effect with respect to any
city having a population of one million or more and  section  one  shall
take effect with respect to any other city, or any town or village when-
ever  the  local  legislative body of a city, town or village determines
the existence of a public emergency pursuant to  section  three  of  the
emergency  tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, as enacted by

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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section four of this act, and provided that the  housing  accommodations
subject  on  the effective date of this act to stabilization pursuant to
the New York city rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred  sixty-nine
shall remain subject to such law upon the expiration of this act.
  S  2.  Subdivision  2 of section 1 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946,
constituting the emergency housing rent control law, as amended by chap-
ter 82 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  2. The provisions  of  this  act,  and  all  regulations,  orders  and
requirements thereunder shall remain in full force and effect until [and
including] THREE O'CLOCK POST MERIDIAN ON June [15] 17, 2011.
  S  3. Section 2 of chapter 329 of the laws of 1963, amending the emer-
gency housing rent control law relating to recontrol of rents in Albany,
as amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 2003,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take effect immediately and the provisions of
subdivision 6 of section 12 of the emergency housing rent  control  law,
as  added  by this act, shall remain in full force and effect until [and
including] THREE O'CLOCK POST MERIDIAN ON June [15] 17, 2011.
  S 4. Section 10 of chapter 555 of  the  laws  of  1982,  amending  the
general business law and the administrative code of the city of New York
relating  to conversion of residential property to cooperative or condo-
minium ownership in the city of New York, as amended by  chapter  82  of
the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  S  10.  This  act  shall  take  effect immediately; provided, that the
provisions of sections one, two and nine of this  act  shall  remain  in
full  force  and  effect  only  until [and including] THREE O'CLOCK POST
MERIDIAN ON June [15] 17, 2011; provided further that the provisions  of
section  three of this act shall remain in full force and effect only so
long as the public emergency requiring the  regulation  and  control  of
residential  rents  and evictions continues as provided in subdivision 3
of section 1 of the local emergency housing rent control  act;  provided
further  that  the  provisions  of sections four, five, six and seven of
this act shall expire in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section
26-520  of  the  administrative  code  of  the  city of New York as such
section of the administrative code  is,  from  time  to  time,  amended;
provided  further  that the provisions of section 26-511 of the adminis-
trative code of the city of New York, as amended by this act, which  the
New  York  City  Department of Housing Preservation and Development must
find are contained in the code of the real estate industry stabilization
association of such city  in  order  to  approve  it,  shall  be  deemed
contained  therein  as  of  the effective date of this act; and provided
further that any plan accepted for filing by the department of law on or
before the effective date of this act shall continue to be  governed  by
the  provisions  of section 352-eeee of the general business law as they
had existed immediately prior to the effective date of this act.
  S 5. Section 4 of chapter 402 of the laws of 1983, amending the gener-
al business law relating to conversions of rental  residential  property
to cooperative or condominium ownership in certain municipalities in the
counties  of  Nassau, Westchester and Rockland, as amended by chapter 82
of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  S 4. This act  shall  take  effect  immediately;  provided,  that  the
provisions  of  sections  one and three of this act shall remain in full
force and effect only until [and including] THREE O'CLOCK POST  MERIDIAN
ON  June  [15] 17, 2011; and provided further that any plan accepted for
filing by the department of law on or before the effective date of  this
act  shall  continue to be governed by the provisions of section 352-eee
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of the general business law as they had existed immediately prior to the
effective date of this act.
  S  6.  Subdivision 6 of section 46 of chapter 116 of the laws of 1997,
constituting the rent regulation reform act of 1997, as amended by chap-
ter 82 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  6. sections twenty-eight, twenty-eight-a, twenty-eight-b  and  twenty-
eight-c  of  this  act  shall  expire and be deemed repealed after THREE
O'CLOCK POST MERIDIAN ON June [15] 17, 2011;
  S 7. This act shall take effect immediately.