What's happening
This bill requires landlords to use standardized state forms when requesting additional information for sublet requests in rent-regulated units.
Why it matters
Standardizing the forms limits what landlords can ask. By requiring landlords to use only state-approved forms with predetermined questions, the law prevents them from requesting unnecessary, invasive, or burdensome information during the sublet approval process in rent-regulated units.
Reduces confusion and delays for tenants and landlords. Having a single, uniform process for sublet requests can help avoid misunderstandings and streamline communication, making it easier for tenants to fulfill requirements and for landlords to process requests efficiently.
Ensures consistent tenant protections statewide. The law directs the Division of Housing and Community Renewal to create forms tailored to the different rent laws, ensuring that tenants in various regulated housing programs receive equal and predictable treatment regarding sublet requests.
Could limit landlord discretion and potential discrimination. By restricting landlords to a fixed set of questions, the bill may reduce opportunities for landlords to discriminate or retaliate against tenants seeking to sublet, potentially making it easier for tenants to exercise their rights.
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Standardize Sublet Request Forms
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
4 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to housing
- Referred to housing
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STATE OF NEW YORK
687
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, CYMBROWITZ, GOTTFRIED, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to the landlord's request for information regarding a request to sublet
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 226-b of the real property law, as added by chapter 403 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
4. With respect to units covered by the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four or the rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine the exercise of the rights granted by this section shall be subject to the applicable provisions of such laws. In the case of such units, any request for additional information made pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision two of this section shall be upon forms promulgated by the division of housing and community renewal and shall include only those questions provided by the division. Nothing contained in this section [two hundred twenty-six-b] shall be deemed to affect the rights, if any, of any tenant subject to [title Y of chapter 51] chapter three of title twenty-six of the administrative code of the city of New York or the emergency housing rent control law.
§ 2. Within thirty days after this act shall have become a law, the division of housing and community renewal shall promulgate such forms as shall be required to effectuate the provisions of section one of this act. Such forms shall vary to accommodate the differing standards applicable to subletting under the various laws and codes governing subletting.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to sublease requests mailed to a landlord on or after the date the form provided for by this act is promulgated by the division of housing and community renewal.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03987-01-9
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