S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8215
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 11, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. LOPEZ -- 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 conversion 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 effectiveness thereof
(Part A); and to repeal chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, amending the
criminal procedure law and other laws relating to suspension and revo-
cation of firearms licenses (Part B)
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. This act enacts into law major components of legislation
2 relating to rent regulation and the safe act of 2013. Each component is
3 wholly contained within a Part identified as Parts A through B. The
4 effective date for each particular provision contained within such Part
5 is set forth in the last section of such Part. Any provision in any
6 section contained within a Part, including the effective date of the
7 Part, which makes a reference to a section "of this act", when used in
8 connection with that particular component, shall be deemed to mean and
9 refer to the corresponding section of the Part in which it is found.
10 Section three of this act sets forth the general effective date of this
11 act.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 PART A
2 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
3 the "rent act of 2015."
4 S 1-a. Section 17 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974 amending the
5 emergency housing rent control law relating to the control of and
6 stabilization of rent in certain cases, as amended by section 1-a of
7 part B of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
8 S 17. Effective date. This act shall take effect immediately and
9 shall remain in full force and effect until and including the fifteenth
10 day of June [2015] 2019; except that sections two and three shall take
11 effect with respect to any city having a population of one million or
12 more and section one shall take effect with respect to any other city,
13 or any town or village whenever the local legislative body of a city,
14 town or village determines the existence of a public emergency pursuant
15 to section three of the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen
16 seventy-four, as enacted by section four of this act, and provided that
17 the housing accommodations subject on the effective date of this act to
18 stabilization pursuant to the New York city rent stabilization law of
19 nineteen hundred sixty-nine shall remain subject to such law upon the
20 expiration of this act.
21 S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 1 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946
22 constituting the emergency housing rent control law, as amended by
23 section 2 of part B of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
24 read as follows:
25 2. The provisions of this act, and all regulations, orders and
26 requirements thereunder shall remain in full force and effect until and
27 including June 15, [2015] 2019.
28 S 3. Section 2 of chapter 329 of the laws of 1963 amending the emer-
29 gency housing rent control law relating to recontrol of rents in Albany,
30 as amended by section 3 of part B of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is
31 amended to read as follows:
32 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and the provisions of
33 subdivision 6 of section 12 of the emergency housing rent control law,
34 as added by this act, shall remain in full force and effect until and
35 including June 15, [2015] 2019.
36 S 4. Section 10 of chapter 555 of the laws of 1982 amending the gener-
37 al business law and the administrative code of the city of New York
38 relating to conversion of residential property to cooperative or condo-
39 minium ownership in the city of New York, as amended by section 4 of
40 part B of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
41 S 10. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, that the
42 provisions of sections one, two and nine of this act shall remain in
43 full force and effect only until and including June 15, [2015] 2019;
44 provided further that the provisions of section three of this act shall
45 remain in full force and effect only so long as the public emergency
46 requiring the regulation and control of residential rents and evictions
47 continues as provided in subdivision 3 of section 1 of the local emer-
48 gency housing rent control act; provided further that the provisions of
49 sections four, five, six and seven of this act shall expire in accord-
50 ance with the provisions of section 26-520 of the administrative code of
51 the city of New York as such section of the administrative code is, from
52 time to time, amended; provided further that the provisions of section
53 26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by
54 this act, which the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and
55 Development must find are contained in the code of the real estate
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1 industry stabilization association of such city in order to approve it,
2 shall be deemed contained therein as of the effective date of this act;
3 and provided further that any plan accepted for filing by the department
4 of law on or before the effective date of this act shall continue to be
5 governed by the provisions of section 352-eeee of the general business
6 law as they had existed immediately prior to the effective date of this
7 act.
8 S 5. Section 4 of chapter 402 of the laws of 1983 amending the general
9 business law relating to conversion of rental residential property to
10 cooperative or condominium ownership in certain municipalities in the
11 counties of Nassau, Westchester and Rockland, as amended by section 5 of
12 part B of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
13 S 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, that the
14 provisions of sections one and three of this act shall remain in full
15 force and effect only until and including June 15, [2015] 2019; and
16 provided further that any plan accepted for filing by the department of
17 law on or before the effective date of this act shall continue to be
18 governed by the provisions of section 352-eee of the general business
19 law as they had existed immediately prior to the effective date of this
20 act.
21 S 6. Subdivision 6 of section 46 of chapter 116 of the laws of 1997
22 constituting the rent regulation reform act of 1997, as amended by
23 section 6 of part B of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
24 read as follows:
25 6. sections twenty-eight, twenty-eight-a, twenty-eight-b and twenty-
26 eight-c of this act shall expire and be deemed repealed after June 15,
27 [2015] 2019;
28 S 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
29 PART B
30 Section 1. Chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, amending the criminal proce-
31 dure law and other laws relating to suspension and revocation of
32 firearms licenses, is REPEALED.
33 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
34 S 2. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
35 sion, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of
36 competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
37 impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
38 its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
39 or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
40 ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
41 the legislature that this act would have been enacted even if such
42 invalid provisions had not been included herein.
43 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately provided, however, that
44 the applicable effective date of Parts A through B of this act shall be
45 as specifically set forth in the last section of such Parts.