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A2625Assembly2019-2020 SessionSame asS3320

Set Time Limits for Repairs

Official title

“Establishes time restrictions for court issued consent orders for work performance to remove or remedy conditions in such petition”

Sponsor Jeffrey DinowitzAD-81+5 co-sponsorsAffects Legal
Status
Signed by Governor
Impact
4/10
Low
Outcome
Signed into law

Bill progress

Signed into law

What's happening

This bill sets a 60-day limit, with possible extension for good cause, for court-issued orders to remedy property conditions.

Why it matters

  1. Creates a stricter timeline for property owners (or mortgagees/lienholders) to fix housing code violations, which could accelerate repairs for tenants living in unsafe or unhealthy conditions. This may lead to quicker resolution of hazardous situations and improve quality of life for residents.

  2. Limits the opportunity for mortgagees or lienholders to only one chance per petition to seek court permission to fix the issues,. potentially discouraging repeated delays or misuse of the remediation process by parties with a financial interest in the property.

  3. Allows the court to extend the 60-day deadline only for "good cause,". which introduces a higher threshold for granting additional time and puts pressure on responsible parties to act promptly, while still permitting flexibility in genuinely complicated cases.

  4. May impact landlords and property managers by increasing the urgency and accountability for addressing tenant complaints,. potentially reducing prolonged periods of noncompliance and legal maneuvering in housing court.

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Set Time Limits for Repairs

Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Jeffrey Dinowitz

Assembly Member · Assembly District 81

Chair, Codes

History

  1. Signed chap.251
  2. Delivered to governor
  3. Returned to assembly
  4. Passed senateVote 43–17
  5. 3rd reading cal.390
  6. Substituted for S3320
  7. Referred to housing, construction and community development
  8. Delivered to senate
  9. Passed assembly
  10. Ordered to third reading cal.117
  11. Returned to assembly
  12. Died in senate
Show 7 earlier actions
  1. Referred to housing, construction and community development
  2. Delivered to senate
  3. Passed assembly
  4. Advanced to third reading cal.132
  5. Reported
  6. Reported referred to codes
  7. Referred to judiciary

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S3320Senate

Limit Repairs to 60 Days

Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Robert Jackson

Impact 4 · Low0% to pass

Full text

1 pageUnderlined is new[Struck] is removedOfficial text on nysenate.gov ↗

STATE OF NEW YORK

2625

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 24, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, GLICK, PAULIN, ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the real property actions and proceedings law, in relation to establishing time restrictions for court issued consent orders for work performance to remove or remedy conditions in such petition

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

Section 1. Subdivision a of section 777 of the real property actions and proceedings law, as added by chapter 909 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows:

a. If, after a trial, the court shall determine that the facts alleged in the petition have been affirmatively established by the petitioners, that no defense thereto specified in section seven hundred seventy-five of this article has been affirmatively established by the owner or a mortgagee or lienor of record, and that the facts alleged in the petition warrant the granting of the relief sought, and if the owner or any mortgagee or lienor of record or other person having an interest in the property, shall apply to the court to be permitted to remove or remedy the conditions specified in such petition and shall (1) demonstrate the ability promptly to undertake the work required; and (2) post security for the performance thereof within the time, and in the amount and manner, deemed necessary by the court, then the court, in lieu of rendering judgment as provided in section seven hundred seventy-six of this article, may issue an order permitting such person to perform the work within a time fixed by the court but in no event more than sixty days from the date of the order of the court unless the court grants an extension of time for good cause shown. The provisions of this subdivision shall only be available to the mortgagee or lienor once with respect to any petition filed pursuant to this article.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD00633-01-9

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