NY State Senate Bill 2017-S2148A

Senate Bill S2148A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes additional causes of action under harassment of a rent regulated tenant; creates harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the second degree

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Feb 20, 2018	print number 2148a
Feb 20, 2018	amend and recommit to codes
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Jan 12, 2017	referred to codes

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2017-S2148 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1086
Current Committee:: Senate Codes
Law Section:: Penal Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §241.05, add §241.10, Pen L; add §99-bb, St Fin L; amd §46, Chap 116 of 1997
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S5251, A8232
2013-2014: S1744, A809
2015-2016: S3841, A331
2019-2020: S1127

2017-S2148 - Summary

Establishes additional causes of action under harassment of a rent regulated tenant; creates harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the second degree; creates quality affordable housing preservation fund.

2017-S2148 - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S2148

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the penal law, in relation to
harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the first and second degree;
to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the
"quality affordable housing preservation fund"; and to amend the rent
regulation reform act of 1997, in relation to making certain
provisions permanent

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

This bill amends Section 241.05 of the penal law, as added by chapter
116 of the laws of 1997, with regard to the harassment of rent
regulated tenants in the first and second degree; amends the state
finance law by establishing a dedicated fund for "quality affordable
housing preservation funds"; and amending the rent regulation reform
act of 1997, rendering it permanent.

Amends Section 241.05 adding paragraphs 3 and 4 by defining actions
that violate the provisions of Section 241.10 that constitute
harassment in the first degree, a class E felony, following a landlord
or his/her authorized representative having received complaints on
three successive occasions of conditions, conduct or circumstances
which recklessly cause Physical injury to a third person, tenant or
tenants.

The amended Section 241.10 defines harassment in the second degree
with the intent to cause a tenant to vacate a rent regulated housing
accommodation by knowingly or recklessly creating or maintaining
conditions that endanger the health and safety of a tenant or tenants,
who after three successive complaints have been ignored with regard to
the conditions cited in the complaints. Section 241.10 is amended to
include punitive fines of three thousand dollars for each offense.

Section 3 amends the state finance law establishing a dedicated
Quality affordable housing preservation fund in the custody of DHCR
and the State comptroller wherein the fines are to be deposited.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Poverty dictates housing choices, as such available and affordable
housing for low-income families is generally found in communities with
the oldest housing, the greatest need for improvements, rehabilitation
and code compliance. Therefore, it is in this type of housing where
maintenance has been deferred. As a consequence low- and
moderate-income children are more likely to live in older deteriorated
housing with lead Paint hazards, mold, vermin; multiple code
violations which if left unchecked can significantly affect the health
and threaten the lives of the tenants. Millions of New Yorkers live in
housing with conditions that compromise the health or safety of an
individual tenant or a considerable number of persons. In order to
motivate rent regulated tenants into vacating their units, intentional
negligence, detachment and overt actions by landlords or their
representatives have created such conditions.  Ordering that garbage
not be removed; ignoring requests to address leaks that precipitate
mold; not treating units to discourage vermin and rodent infestation;
and broken windows or windows without guards, all contribute to
long-term illness, high health costs, and potential fatalities. This
same holds true for landlords or their representatives who allow
individuals involved in illegal activities or in the distribution or
sale of controlled substances to congregate in communal areas of a
property so as to threaten the health and wellbeing of tenants and as
a tactical means intimidating tenants to vacate rent regulated units.

Mold, vermin and rodent infestations are major contributors to the
asthma epidemic that afflicts 500,000 New York City low-income Latino
and African-American residents of the City of New York, the majority
of whom are children, to suffer disproportionally. According to the
NYC Department of Mental Health and Hygiene the trigger effects of
these conditions result in thousands of visits to hospital emergency
rooms each year due to chronic lung inflammation and airway tightening
resulting in coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath.  The
department cites asthma as the leading cause of hospitalization of
children and missed school days and one in four children. Over one
hundred seventy-five landlords have become repeat offenders of
conditions that are the petri dish for asthma and resulted in New York
City having the highest incidents of asthma in the nation.

Hundreds of children are hurt or killed by falls that might have been
prevented by window guards. However, many landlords fail to give
tenants the forms that determine whether the apartment must have
window guards. By law, forms headed NOTICE TO TENANT OR OCCUPANT or
WINDOW GUARDS REQUIRED (which inform landlord that the window must
have window guards) be filled within 30 days of when the tenant starts
renting, and every year after that between January 1 and 16 (or with
the January rent bill) lease.

While lead abatement has been required by law since 1982, hundreds of
New York City children and elderly living in pre-War housing are
subject the dangers posed by peeling and chipped lead paint and the
potential brain damage brought about by elevated blood lead levels.

This law will ensure that landlords or their representatives accept
accountability and responsibility for removing conditions, the
presence of which, if ignored through negligence can result in
illness, long term disability or death.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
Immediately.
 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :
Generation of revenue to support enforcement and housing preservation
activities.

2017-S2148 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2148
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to harassment of a rent regu-
   lated  tenant  in  the  first  and  second  degree; to amend the state
   finance law, in relation to establishing the "quality affordable hous-
   ing preservation fund"; and to amend the rent regulation reform act of
   1997, in relation to making certain provisions permanent
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 241.05 of the penal law, as added by chapter 116 of
 the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
 § 241.05 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
   An  owner  is  guilty  of harassment of a rent regulated tenant IN THE
 FIRST DEGREE when with intent to cause a rent regulated tenant to vacate
 a housing accommodation, such owner OR HIS OR HER REPRESENTATIVE:
   1. With intent to cause physical injury to such tenant  OR  INTIMIDATE
 SUCH  TENANT,  causes [such] injury to such tenant or to a third person;
 [or]
   2. Recklessly causes physical injury to such  tenant  or  to  a  third
 person[.];
   3.  ENGAGES  IN CONDUCT THAT VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 241.10
 OF THIS ARTICLE AND THE HEALTH OR SAFETY OF AN INDIVIDUAL OR A CONSIDER-
 ABLE NUMBER OF PERSONS HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED AS A RESULT OF THE OWNER OR
 HIS OR HER REPRESENTATIVE'S FAILURE  TO  REMEDIATE  IMPROPER  CONDITIONS
 AFTER  RECEIVING THREE OR MORE COMPLAINTS FROM A TENANT OR TENANTS RELA-
 TIVE TO THOSE CONDITIONS; OR
   4. CONDUCTS OR MAINTAINS ANY PREMISES, HOUSING UNITS, PLACE OR  COMMON
 AREAS WHERE PERSONS GATHER FOR PURPOSES OF ENGAGING IN UNLAWFUL CONDUCT.
   Harassment of a rent regulated tenant IN THE FIRST DEGREE is a class E
 felony.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04945-01-7

 S. 2148                             2
 
   §  2.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 241.10 to read
 as follows:
 § 241.10 HARASSMENT OF A RENT REGULATED TENANT IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
   1.  AN OWNER IS GUILTY OF HARASSMENT OF A RENT REGULATED TENANT IN THE
 SECOND DEGREE WHEN WITH INTENT TO  CAUSE  A  RENT  REGULATED  TENANT  TO
 VACATE  A HOUSING ACCOMMODATION, SUCH OWNER OR HIS OR HER REPRESENTATIVE
 ENGAGES IN CONDUCT EITHER UNLAWFUL OR  UNREASONABLE  UNDER  THE  CIRCUM-
 STANCES,  KNOWINGLY  OR  RECKLESSLY  CREATES OR MAINTAINS A CONDITION OR
 CONDITIONS WHICH ENDANGER OR ENDANGERS THE SAFETY OR HEALTH OF AN  INDI-
 VIDUAL  OR  A  CONSIDERABLE  NUMBER OF PERSONS AND THE TENANT OR TENANTS
 HAVE NOTIFIED THE LANDLORD ON THREE SUCCESSIVE OCCASIONS AND SUCH  OWNER
 OR REPRESENTATIVE IGNORES COMPLAINTS RELATIVE TO THOSE CONDITIONS.
   2.  ANY  PERSON  WHO  VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE
 GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR, AND UPON CONVICTION THEREOF SHALL PAY A FINE OF
 THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS  FOR  EACH  OFFENSE.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER
 PROVISION  OF  LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  FINES COLLECTED PURSUANT TO THIS
 SECTION SHALL BE DEPOSITED INTO THE QUALITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVA-
 TION FUND ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION NINETY-NINE-AA  OF  THE  STATE
 FINANCE  LAW  FOR THE INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF CRIMES UNDER THIS
 ARTICLE.
   HARASSMENT OF A RENT REGULATED TENANT IN THE SECOND DEGREE IS A MISDE-
 MEANOR.
   § 3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-aa to
 read as follows:
   § 99-AA.  QUALITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION FUND.  1.  THERE  IS
 HEREBY ESTABLISHED IN THE JOINT CUSTODY OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER AND THE
 COMMISSIONER  OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL A FUND TO BE KNOWN AS THE
 "QUALITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION FUND".
   2. SUCH FUND SHALL CONSIST OF ALL MONEYS  COLLECTED  PURSUANT  TO  THE
 PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION  241.05  OF  THE  PENAL LAW AND ALL OTHER MONEYS
 APPROPRIATED, CREDITED, OR TRANSFERRED THERETO FROM ANY  OTHER  FUND  OR
 SOURCE  PURSUANT TO LAW. NOTHING CONTAINED IN THIS SECTION SHALL PREVENT
 THE STATE FROM RECEIVING GRANTS, GIFTS OR BEQUESTS FOR THE  PURPOSES  OF
 THE  FUND  AS  DEFINED IN THIS SECTION AND DEPOSITING THEM INTO THE FUND
 ACCORDING TO LAW. ANY INTEREST RECEIVED BY THE COMPTROLLER ON MONEYS  ON
 DEPOSIT IN SUCH FUND SHALL BE RETAINED IN AND BECOME PART OF SUCH FUND.
   3.  MONEYS OF THIS ACCOUNT SHALL BE AVAILABLE TO THE DIVISION OF HOUS-
 ING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL TO PAY FOR  THE  COSTS  OF  INVESTIGATING  AND
 PROSECUTING  VIOLATIONS  OF  ARTICLE  TWO HUNDRED FORTY-ONE OF THE PENAL
 LAW.
   4. ALL PAYMENTS FROM THE FUND SHALL BE MADE ON THE AUDIT  AND  WARRANT
 OF THE COMPTROLLER.
   §  4.  Subdivision 6 of section 46 of chapter 116 of the laws of 1997,
 constituting the rent regulation reform  act  of  1997,  as  amended  by
 section  6  of  part  A of chapter 20 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
 read as follows:
   6. sections [twenty-eight,] twenty-eight-a, twenty-eight-b  and  twen-
 ty-eight-c  of  this  act shall expire and be deemed repealed after June
 15, 2019;
   § 5. This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately;  provided,  however,
 sections one, two and three of this act shall take effect on the nineti-
 eth day after it shall have become a law.

2017-S2148A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1086
Current Committee:: Senate Codes
Law Section:: Penal Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §241.05, add §241.10, Pen L; add §99-bb, St Fin L; amd §46, Chap 116 of 1997
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S5251, A8232
2013-2014: S1744, A809
2015-2016: S3841, A331
2019-2020: S1127

2017-S2148A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S2148A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S2148A

SPONSOR: ALCANTARA
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the penal law, in relation to harass-
ment of a rent regulated tenant in the first and second degree; to amend
the state finance law, in relation to establishing the "quality afforda-
ble housing preservation fund"; and to amend the rent regulation reform
act of 1997, in relation to making certain provisions permanent

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This bill amends Section 241.05 of the penal law, as added by chapter
116 of the laws of 1997, with regard to the harassment of rent regulated
tenants in the first and second degree; amends the state finance law by
establishing a dedicated fund for "quality affordable housing preserva-
tion funds"; and amending the rent regulation reform act of 1997,
rendering it permanent.

Amends Section 241.05 adding paragraphs 3 and 4 by defining actions that
violate the provisions of Section 241.10 that constitute harassment in
the first degree, a class E felony, following a landlord or his/her
authorized representative having received complaints on three successive

occasions of conditions, conduct or circumstances which recklessly cause
Physical injury to a third person, tenant or tenants.

The amended Section 241.10 defines harassment in the second degree with
the intent to cause a tenant to vacate a rent regulated housing accommo-
dation by knowingly or recklessly creating or maintaining conditions
that endanger the health and safety of a tenant or tenants, who after
three successive complaints have been ignored with regard to the condi-
tions cited in the complaints. Section 241.10 is amended to include
punitive fines of three thousand dollars for each offense.

Section 3 amends the state finance law establishing a dedicated Quality
affordable housing preservation fund in the custody of DHCR and the
State comptroller wherein the fines are to be deposited.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Poverty dictates housing choices, as such available and affordable hous-
ing for low-income families is generally found in communities with the
oldest housing, the greatest need for improvements, rehabilitation and
code compliance. Therefore, it is in this type of housing where mainte-
nance has been deferred. As a consequence low and moderate income chil-
dren are more likely to live in older deteriorated housing with lead
Paint hazards, mold, vermin; multiple code violations which if left
unchecked can significantly affect the health and threaten the lives of
the tenants. Millions of New Yorkers live in housing with conditions
that compromise the health or safety of an individual tenant or a
considerable number of persons. In order to motivate rent regulated
tenants into vacating their units, intentional negligence, detachment
and overt actions by landlords or their representatives have created
such conditions. Ordering that garbage not be removed; ignoring requests
to address leaks that precipitate mold; not treating units to discourage
vermin and rodent infestation; and broken windows or windows without
guards, all contribute to long-term illness, high health costs, and
potential fatalities. This same holds true for landlords or their repre-
sentatives who allow individuals involved in illegal activities or in
the distribution or sale of controlled substances to congregate in
communal areas of a property so as to threaten the health and wellbeing
of tenants and as a tactical means intimidating tenants to vacate rent
regulated units.

Mold, vermin and rodent infestations are major contributors to the asth-
ma epidemic that afflicts 500,000 New York City low-income Latino and
African-American residents of the City of New York, the majority of whom
are children, to suffer disproportionally. According to the NYC Depart-
ment of Mental Health and Hygiene the trigger effects of these condi-
tions result in thousands of visits to hospital emergency rooms each
year due to chronic lung inflammation and airway tightening resulting in
coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath.  The department cites asthma
as the leading cause of hospitalization of children and missed school
days and one in four children. Over one hundred seventy-five landlords
have become repeat offenders of conditions that are the petri dish for
asthma and resulted in New York City having the highest incidents of
asthma in the nation.

Hundreds of children are hurt or killed by falls that might have been
prevented by window guards. However, many landlords fail to give tenants
the forms that determine whether the apartment must have window guards.
By law, forms headed NOTICE TO TENANT OR OCCUPANT or WINDOW GUARDS
REQUIRED (which inform landlord that the window must have window guards)
be filled within 30 days of when the tenant starts renting, and every
year after that between January 1 and 16 (or with the January rent bill)
lease.

While lead abatement has been required by law since 1982, hundreds of
New York City children and elderly living in pre-War housing are subject
the dangers posed by peeling and chipped lead paint and the potential
brain damage brought about by elevated blood lead levels.

This law will ensure that landlords or their representatives accept
accountability and responsibility for removing conditions, the presence
of which, if ignored through negligence can result in illness, long term
disability or death.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately, provided that sections one, two, and three of the act shall
take effect on the 90th day after it shall have become a law.
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Generation of revenue to support enforcement and housing preservation
activities.

2017-S2148A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2148--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be  committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to
   the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule  6,  sec.  8  --
   committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
   recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to harassment of a rent regu-
   lated tenant in the first  and  second  degree;  to  amend  the  state
   finance law, in relation to establishing the "quality affordable hous-
   ing preservation fund"; and to amend the rent regulation reform act of
   1997, in relation to making certain provisions permanent
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 241.05 of the penal law, as added by chapter 116 of
 the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
 § 241.05 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
   An owner is guilty of harassment of a rent  regulated  tenant  IN  THE
 FIRST DEGREE when with intent to cause a rent regulated tenant to vacate
 a housing accommodation, such owner OR HIS OR HER REPRESENTATIVE:
   1.  With  intent to cause physical injury to such tenant OR INTIMIDATE
 SUCH TENANT, causes [such] injury to such tenant or to a  third  person;
 [or]
   2.  Recklessly  causes  physical  injury  to such tenant or to a third
 person[.];
   3. ENGAGES IN CONDUCT THAT VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF  SECTION  241.10
 OF THIS ARTICLE AND THE HEALTH OR SAFETY OF AN INDIVIDUAL OR A CONSIDER-
 ABLE NUMBER OF PERSONS HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED AS A RESULT OF THE OWNER OR
 HIS  OR  HER  REPRESENTATIVE'S  FAILURE TO REMEDIATE IMPROPER CONDITIONS
 AFTER RECEIVING THREE OR MORE COMPLAINTS FROM A TENANT OR TENANTS  RELA-
 TIVE TO THOSE CONDITIONS; OR
   4.  CONDUCTS OR MAINTAINS ANY PREMISES, HOUSING UNITS, PLACE OR COMMON
 AREAS WHERE PERSONS GATHER FOR PURPOSES OF ENGAGING IN UNLAWFUL CONDUCT.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD04945-02-8

 S. 2148--A                          2
 
   Harassment of a rent regulated tenant IN THE FIRST DEGREE is a class E
 felony.
   §  2.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 241.10 to read
 as follows:
 § 241.10 HARASSMENT OF A RENT REGULATED TENANT IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
   1. AN OWNER IS GUILTY OF HARASSMENT OF A RENT REGULATED TENANT IN  THE
 SECOND  DEGREE  WHEN  WITH  INTENT  TO  CAUSE A RENT REGULATED TENANT TO
 VACATE A HOUSING ACCOMMODATION, SUCH OWNER OR HIS OR HER  REPRESENTATIVE
 ENGAGES  IN  CONDUCT  EITHER  UNLAWFUL OR UNREASONABLE UNDER THE CIRCUM-
 STANCES, KNOWINGLY OR RECKLESSLY CREATES OR  MAINTAINS  A  CONDITION  OR
 CONDITIONS  WHICH ENDANGER OR ENDANGERS THE SAFETY OR HEALTH OF AN INDI-
 VIDUAL OR A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF PERSONS AND  THE  TENANT  OR  TENANTS
 HAVE  NOTIFIED THE LANDLORD ON THREE SUCCESSIVE OCCASIONS AND SUCH OWNER
 OR REPRESENTATIVE IGNORES COMPLAINTS RELATIVE TO THOSE CONDITIONS.
   2. ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  BE
 GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR, AND UPON CONVICTION THEREOF SHALL PAY A FINE OF
 THREE  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  FOR  EACH  OFFENSE.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER
 PROVISION OF LAW TO THE  CONTRARY,  FINES  COLLECTED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS
 SECTION SHALL BE DEPOSITED INTO THE QUALITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVA-
 TION  FUND  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT TO SECTION NINETY-NINE-BB OF THE STATE
 FINANCE LAW FOR THE INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF CRIMES  UNDER  THIS
 ARTICLE.
   HARASSMENT OF A RENT REGULATED TENANT IN THE SECOND DEGREE IS A MISDE-
 MEANOR.
   § 3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-bb to
 read as follows:
   §  99-BB.    QUALITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION FUND. 1. THERE IS
 HEREBY ESTABLISHED IN THE JOINT CUSTODY OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER AND THE
 COMMISSIONER OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL A FUND TO BE KNOWN AS  THE
 "QUALITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION FUND".
   2.  SUCH  FUND  SHALL  CONSIST OF ALL MONEYS COLLECTED PURSUANT TO THE
 PROVISIONS OF SECTION 241.05 OF THE  PENAL  LAW  AND  ALL  OTHER  MONEYS
 APPROPRIATED,  CREDITED,  OR  TRANSFERRED THERETO FROM ANY OTHER FUND OR
 SOURCE PURSUANT TO LAW. NOTHING CONTAINED IN THIS SECTION SHALL  PREVENT
 THE  STATE  FROM RECEIVING GRANTS, GIFTS OR BEQUESTS FOR THE PURPOSES OF
 THE FUND AS DEFINED IN THIS SECTION AND DEPOSITING THEM  INTO  THE  FUND
 ACCORDING  TO LAW. ANY INTEREST RECEIVED BY THE COMPTROLLER ON MONEYS ON
 DEPOSIT IN SUCH FUND SHALL BE RETAINED IN AND BECOME PART OF SUCH FUND.
   3. MONEYS OF THIS ACCOUNT SHALL BE AVAILABLE TO THE DIVISION OF  HOUS-
 ING  AND  COMMUNITY  RENEWAL  TO  PAY FOR THE COSTS OF INVESTIGATING AND
 PROSECUTING VIOLATIONS OF ARTICLE TWO HUNDRED  FORTY-ONE  OF  THE  PENAL
 LAW.
   4.  ALL  PAYMENTS FROM THE FUND SHALL BE MADE ON THE AUDIT AND WARRANT
 OF THE COMPTROLLER.
   § 4. Subdivision 6 of section 46 of chapter 116 of the laws  of  1997,
 constituting  the  rent  regulation  reform  act  of 1997, as amended by
 section 6 of part A of chapter 20 of the laws of  2015,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   6.  sections  [twenty-eight,] twenty-eight-a, twenty-eight-b and twen-
 ty-eight-c of this act shall expire and be deemed  repealed  after  June
 15, 2019;
   §  5.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately; provided, however,
 sections one, two and three of this act shall take effect on the nineti-
 eth day after it shall have become a law.

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