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.