What's happening
This bill imposes fines up to $5,000 on landlords or owners who fail to comply with housing division orders in New York.
Why it matters
Creates a strong financial deterrent. for landlords and owners by imposing up to $5,000 in fines for each instance of failing to comply with housing division orders, encouraging prompt resolution of tenant complaints and violations.
Broadens accountability. by defining “owner” expansively to include not just property owners but also mortgagees, receivers, agents, trustees, lessees, and anyone in control, making it harder to evade responsibility through technicalities or corporate structures.
Applies to both multiple and private dwellings. , ensuring that a wide range of rental housing—large apartment buildings as well as smaller, privately owned units—are covered and tenants in various living situations gain additional protections.
Signals increased enforcement. from housing authorities, potentially leading to faster corrections of unsafe or substandard housing conditions and improving the quality of life for tenants throughout New York.
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Fine Landlords for Ignoring Orders
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Sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to housing
- Referred to housing
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1300
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, AUBRY, MOSLEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO, GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the public housing law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to penalties for non-compliance of division of housing and community renewal orders
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section 14-a to read as follows:
§ 14-a. Penalties for non-compliance. Any landlord or owner of a multiple dwelling who fails to comply with any order by the division of housing shall be subject to a fine of not more than five thousand dollars for each instance of non-compliance.
§ 2. Title 26 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 1 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 1
MISCELLANEOUS Section 26-101 Penalties for non-compliance.
§ 26-101 Penalties for non-compliance. 1. Any owner of a dwelling unit who fails to comply with any order by the division of housing and community renewal shall be subject to a fine of not more than five thousand dollars for each instance of non-compliance.
2. For purposes of this section:
(a) the term "owner" shall mean and include the owner or owners of the freehold of the premises or lesser estate therein, a mortgagee or vendee in possession, assignee of rents, receiver, executor, trustee, lessee, agent, or any other person, firm or corporation, directly or indirectly in control of a dwelling; and
(b) the term "dwelling unit" shall mean any residential accommodation in a multiple dwelling or private dwelling.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03137-01-9
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