New York A 1498: Regulates and requires issuance of raincheck by retailer where advertised merchandise is not available for sale

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A01498 Summary:

BILL NOA01498 

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SAME ASSAME AS S02306

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SPONSORRosenthal

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COSPNSRTaylor

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1, Chap 21 of 1962

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Removes provisions that prohibit cities of one million or more from strengthening rent regulation laws to provide more comprehensive coverage than state laws.

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BILL NOA01498 

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01/10/2025referred to housing

01/07/2026referred to housing

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1498

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Housing

 AN ACT to amend the local emergency housing rent control act, in
 relation to rent regulation laws

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 1 of chapter 21 of the laws of
 2 1962, constituting the local emergency housing rent control act, as
 3 amended by chapter 82 of the laws of 2003 and the closing paragraph as
 4 amended by chapter 422 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as
 5 follows:
 6 5. Authority for local rent control legislation. Each city having a
 7 population of one million or more, acting through its local legislative
 8 body, may adopt and amend local laws or ordinances in respect of the
 9 establishment or designation of a city housing rent agency. When it
 10 deems such action to be desirable or necessitated by local conditions in
 11 order to carry out the purposes of this section, such city, except as
 12 hereinafter provided, acting through its local legislative body and not
 13 otherwise, may adopt and amend local laws or ordinances in respect of
 14 the regulation and control of residential rents, including but not
 15 limited to provision for the establishment and adjustment of maximum
 16 rents, the classification of housing accommodations, the regulation of
 17 evictions, and the enforcement of such local laws or ordinances. The
 18 validity of any such local laws or ordinances, and the rules or regu-
 19 lations promulgated in accordance therewith, shall not be affected by
 20 and need not be consistent with the state emergency housing rent control
 21 law or with rules and regulations of the state division of housing and
 22 community renewal.
 23 Notwithstanding any local law or ordinance, housing accommodations
 24 which became vacant on or after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-one
 25 or which hereafter become vacant shall be subject to the provisions of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04622-01-5

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 1 the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, provided,
 2 however, that this provision shall not apply or become effective with
 3 respect to housing accommodations which, by local law or ordinance, are
 4 made directly subject to regulation and control by a city housing rent
 5 agency and such agency determines or finds that the housing accommo-
 6 dations became vacant because the landlord or any person acting on [his]
 7 such landlord's behalf, with intent to cause the tenant to vacate,
 8 engaged in any course of conduct (including but not limited to, inter-
 9 ruption or discontinuance of essential services) which interfered with
 10 or disturbed or was intended to interfere with or disturb the comfort,
 11 repose, peace or quiet of the tenant in [his] such tenant's use or occu-
 12 pancy of the housing accommodations. The removal of any housing accommo-
 13 dation from regulation and control of rents pursuant to the vacancy
 14 exemption provided for in this paragraph shall not constitute or operate
 15 as a ground for the subjection to more stringent regulation and control
 16 of any housing accommodation in such property or in any other property
 17 owned by the same landlord, notwithstanding any prior agreement to the
 18 contrary by the landlord. The vacancy exemption provided for in this
 19 paragraph shall not arise with respect to any rented plot or parcel of
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