New York A 5792: Provides that a child regardless of age who has lived with a tenant parent for two years or more in a rent-regulated apartment shall be deemed a tenant

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5792
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 15, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CYMBROWITZ  -- 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 the definition of a tenant
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision m of section 26-403 of the administrative code
     2  of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
     3    m. "Tenant." A tenant, subtenant, lessee, sublessee, or  other  person
     4  entitled  to  the  possession  or to the use or occupancy of any housing
     5  accommodation. The term tenant  shall  be  deemed  to  include  a  child
     6  (regardless of age) who has resided with his or her parent for two years
     7  or  more  in  a  housing accommodation subject to the provisions of this
     8  chapter and of which such parent is a tenant.
     9    § 2. The administrative code of the city of New  York  is  amended  by
    10  adding a new section 26-504.4 to read as follows:
    11    §  26-504.4  Tenant; definition. For the purposes of this chapter, the
    12  term tenant shall be deemed to include a child (regardless of  age)  who
    13  has  resided  with  his or her parent for two years or more in a housing
    14  accommodation subject to the provisions of this  chapter  and  of  which
    15  such parent is a tenant.
    16    §  3.  Section  14  of  section  4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974,
    17  constituting the emergency tenant protection act  of  nineteen  seventy-
    18  four,  is renumbered section 15 and a new section 14 is added to read as
    19  follows:
    20    § 14.  Tenant; definition. For the purposes  of  this  act,  the  term
    21  tenant  shall  be  deemed to include a child (regardless of age) who has
    22  resided with his or her parent for two years or more in a housing accom-
    23  modation subject to the provisions of this act and of which such  parent
    24  is a tenant.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in  (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
                              [] is old law to be omitted. 
                                                                   LBD06974-01-7

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     1    §  4. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend-
     2  ment to section 26-403 of the city rent and rehabilitation law  made  by
     3  section  one  of  this act shall remain in full force and effect only so
     4  long as the public emergency requiring the  regulation  and  control  of
     5  residential  rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3
     6  of section 1 of  the  local  emergency  housing  rent  control  act  and
     7  provided  further that section 26-504.4 of the rent stabilization law of
     8  nineteen hundred sixty-nine, as added by section two of this act,  shall
     9  expire  on  the  same  date as such law expires and shall not affect the
    10  expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law,  as
    11  amended,  and  provided  further that the amendments to section 4 of the
    12  emergency tenant  protection  act  of  nineteen  seventy-four,  made  by
    13  section  three  of  this  act  shall expire on the same date as such act
    14  expires and shall not affect the expiration of such act as  provided  in
    15  section 17 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, as amended.