 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5066
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 18, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
        AN  ACT to amend the New York city civil court act, in relation to hous-
          ing courts
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 110 of the New York city civil court act is amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision (r) to read as follows:
     3    (r)  (1)  A  part  of  the  court  shall  be  devoted  to  actions and
     4  proceedings where:
     5    (i) every party to the proceeding is a natural person; or
     6    (ii) the petitioner alleges in its petition that it is a "small  land-
     7  lord"  as  defined in subdivision three of section two hundred eleven of
     8  the real property law.
     9    (2) Housing judges shall be appointed pursuant to subdivision  (f)  of
    10  this section.
    11    (3)  For  every two million residents, rounded up to the next million,
    12  such housing court shall consist of one housing part, two  trial  parts,
    13  and  two  resolution  parts.  The  office  of court administration shall
    14  implement the provisions of this subdivision on a  city-wide  basis  and
    15  shall  promulgate  any  standards  and goals necessary to adjudicate the
    16  actions and proceedings pursuant to this subdivision within one  hundred
    17  twenty days of the  commencement of such actions and proceedings.
    18    §  2. Section 102-a of the New York city civil court act is amended by
    19  adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
    20    5. Housing judges necessary for housing courts established pursuant to
    21  subdivision (r) of section one hundred ten  of  this  article  shall  be
    22  appointed pursuant to subdivision (f) of such section.
    23    §  3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    24  law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
    25  rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act  on  its
    26  effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
    27  effective date.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09316-01-5
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