Assembly Bill A2593

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Limits the rent increase after vacancy of a housing accommodation and relates to the adjustment of maximum allowable rent

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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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2017-A2593 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §§26-511 & 26-405, NYC Ad Cd; amd §§10 & 6, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §4, Emerg Hous Rent Cont L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A5502
2019-2020: A298

2017-A2593 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the rent increase after vacancy of a housing accommodation by eliminating the twenty percent increase for vacant rent stabilized apartments; requires landlords to include an itemized cost accounting of all improvements claimed as part of such increase and copies of the corresponding receipts with the lease agreement to the new tenant; caps the increase in rent allowable to owners for individual apartment improvements to twenty percent of the current rent.

2017-A2593 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2593
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 20, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  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 limiting rent increase after vacancy of  a  housing  accommodation;
   and  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 adjustment  of  maximum
   allowable rent
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 5-a of subdivision c of  section  26-511  of  the
 administrative  code of the city of New York, as amended by section 16-a
 of part A of chapter 20 of the laws of  2015,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (5-a)  provides  that,  notwithstanding any provision of this chapter,
 the legal regulated rent for any vacancy lease entered  into  after  the
 effective  date  of  this  paragraph shall be as hereinafter provided in
 this paragraph. [The previous legal  regulated  rent  for  such  housing
 accommodation  shall  be  increased by the following: (i) if the vacancy
 lease is for a term of two years, twenty percent of the  previous  legal
 regulated  rent;  or (ii) if the vacancy lease is for a term of one year
 the increase shall be twenty percent of  the  previous  legal  regulated
 rent  less  an  amount  equal to the difference between (a) the two year
 renewal lease guideline promulgated by the guidelines board of the  city
 of New York applied to the previous legal regulated rent and (b) the one
 year  renewal lease guideline promulgated by the guidelines board of the
 city of New York applied to the previous legal regulated rent.] However,
 where the amount charged and paid by the prior tenant pursuant to  para-
 graph  fourteen  of  this subdivision, was less than the legal regulated
 rent, such increase to the legal regulated rent shall not  exceed:  five
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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