A 597: Includes additional community districts in which pilot programs to address the legalization or conversion of certain basement and cellar dwellings can be established by local law.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 597 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS, EPSTEIN, BORES, RAGA, LEVENBERG, CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing AN ACT to amend the multiple dwelling law, in relation to the community districts in which pilot programs to address the legalization or conversion of certain basement and cellar dwellings can be established by local law The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 289 of the multiple dwelling law, 2 as added by section 1 of part S of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 4. The program established by a local law enacted pursuant to this 5 section shall be applicable only within community districts selected by 6 the local legislative body from the following list: Bronx Community 7 District nine; Bronx Community District ten; Bronx Community District 8 eleven; Bronx Community District twelve; Brooklyn Community District 9 four; Brooklyn Community District five; Brooklyn Community District ten; 10 Brooklyn Community District eleven; Brooklyn Community District seven- 11 teen; Manhattan Community District two; Manhattan Community District 12 three; Manhattan Community District nine; Manhattan Community District 13 ten; Manhattan Community District eleven; Manhattan Community District 14 twelve; [and] Queens Community District one; Queens Community District 15 two; Queens Community District three; and Queens Community District 16 four. Prior to the adoption of the local law authorized by this section, 17 but no later than ninety days after the effective date of this article, 18 the community board of a community district named in this subdivision 19 may adopt and submit to the speaker of the city council a resolution in 20 support or opposition of the inclusion of the community district in the 21 program established by the local law authorized by this article. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to 23 have been in full force and effect on and after April 20, 2024. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01006-01-5