A 305: Relates to increasing the maximum civil penalty from $500 to $1000 per day per property for each day the mortgagee or agent of the mortgagee has been in violation.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 305 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the real property actions and proceedings law, in relation to increasing the maximum civil penalty The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of section 1308 of the real 2 property actions and proceedings law, as added by section 1 of part Q of 3 chapter 73 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows: 4 (a) Violations of this section may be heard before a hearing officer 5 or a court of competent jurisdiction. If it shall appear to the satis- 6 faction of the hearing officer or the court, based on the preponderance 7 of the evidence, that the mortgagee or agent of a mortgagee has violated 8 this section, a civil penalty may be issued by the hearing officer or 9 the court in the amount of up to [five hundred] one thousand dollars per 10 day per property for each day the violation persisted. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00721-01-5