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A04893 Summary:

BILL NOA04893 

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SAME ASSAME AS S03835

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Add Art 20-A §§1125 - 1127, Priv Hous Fin L; amd §2429-b, Pub Auth L

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Establishes the manufactured home community preservation act to provide financial and technical assistance, within funds available to counties, municipalities, rural preservation companies, and other non-profit housing organizations for their housing preservation efforts; provides that funds in the mortgage insurance fund can be used to provide financial support to local governments and eligible non-profit housing organizations.

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02/10/2025referred to housing

01/07/2026referred to housing

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4893

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 10, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, KELLES -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Housing

 AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to estab-
 lishing the manufactured home community preservation act; and to amend
 the public authorities law, in relation to the distribution of funds
 in the mortgage insurance fund

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

 1 Section 1. The private housing finance law is amended by adding a new
 2 article 20-A to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE XX-A
 4 MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ACT
 5 Section 1125. Definitions.
 6 1126. State mobile and manufactured home communities preserva-
 7 tion program.
 8 1127. Financial support to acquire development rights or
 9 purchase mobile home and manufactured home parks.
 10 § 1125. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:
 11 1. "Development rights" means the rights of the fee simple owner to
 12 develop, construct on, divide, sell, lease, or otherwise change the
 13 property from its current use as a mobile home or manufactured home
 14 park, or other affordable housing option as permitted by the land coven-
 15 ant at the time of sale. Development rights include the exercise of the
 16 owner's rights to sell or grant easements or rights of way, or other
 17 rights if by that exercise the use of the land as a mobile home or manu-
 18 factured home park is diminished; provided, however, that the term
 19 "development rights" shall not include the rights of the owner to sell,
 20 lease, or otherwise improve the land to preserve, maintain, operate, or
 21 continue the land as a mobile home or manufactured home park or all
 22 other customary rights and privilege of ownership, including the right
 23 to privacy.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08128-01-5

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 1 2. "Current property value" means the fair market value of a property
 2 that is restricted by an easement or covenant to its use as a mobile
 3 home or manufactured home park rather than the highest or best potential
 4 use.
 5 3. "Mobile home and manufactured home park protection agreement" means
 6 preemptive purchase rights or other provisions that are part of or
 7 linked to a protection conservation easement or covenant providing the
 8 easement holder the preferential right to purchase a protected mobile
 9 home and manufactured home park at its current use value in the event
 10 the landowner intends to sell such property to a purchaser who does not
 11 intend to maintain the property as a mobile home and manufactured home
 12 park.
 13 § 1126. State mobile and manufactured home communities preservation
 14 program. 1. The commissioner, or their authorized designee, shall initi-
 15 ate and maintain a state mobile and manufactured home communities pres-
 16 ervation program to provide financial and technical assistance, within
 17 funds available to counties, municipalities, rural preservation compa-
 18 nies, and other non-profit housing organizations for their housing pres-
 19 ervation efforts.
 20 2. For the purposes of such program, the commissioner shall be aut