A 1876: Requires owners of housing accommodations subject to rent registration to file an additional statement at three month intervals, until the unit is occupied.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1876 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, BURDICK, CHANDLER-WATERMAN, EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Hous- ing AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seven- ty-four and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to rent registration statements for vacant units The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision f of section 12-a of section 4 of chapter 576 2 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of 3 nineteen seventy-four, as added by chapter 403 of the laws of 1983, is 4 amended to read as follows: 5 f. An annual statement shall be filed containing the current rent 6 for each unit and such other information contained in subdivision a of 7 this section as shall be required by the division. The owner shall 8 provide each tenant then in occupancy with a copy of that portion of 9 such annual statement as pertains to the tenant's unit. For units 10 registered as vacant on the date required by the division, an additional 11 statement shall be filed containing the current rent and such other 12 information contained in subdivision a of this section at three month 13 intervals until such unit has a tenant in occupancy. 14 § 2. Subdivision f of section 26-517 of the administrative code of the 15 city of New York is amended to read as follows: 16 f. An annual statement shall be filed containing the current rent for 17 each unit and such other information contained in subdivision a of this 18 section as shall be required by the division. The owner shall provide 19 each tenant then in occupancy with a copy of that portion of such annual 20 statement as pertains to the tenant's unit. For units registered as 21 vacant on the date required by the division, an additional statement 22 shall be filed containing the current rent and such other information EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04691-01-5 
 A. 1876 2 1 contained in subdivision a of this section at three month intervals 2 until such unit has a tenant in occupancy. 3 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; and provided that the 4 amendments to section 26-517 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the administra- 5 tive code of the city of New York made by section two of this act shall 6 expire on the same date as such law expires and shall not affect the 7 expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.