Title ETP, Emergency Tenant Protection Act 576/74

Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as\nthe "emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four".\n

§ 10. Regulations. a. For cities having a population of less than one\nmillion and towns and villages, the state division of housing and\ncommunity renewal shall be empowered to implement this act by\nappropriate regulations. Such regulations may encompass such speculative\nor m…

§ 10-a. Right to sublease. Units subject to this law may be sublet\npursuant to section two hundred twenty-six-b of the real property law\nprovided that (a) the rental charged to the subtenant does not exceed\nthe legal regulated rent plus a ten percent surcharge payable to the\…

§ 10-b. Major capital improvements and individual apartment\nimprovements in rent regulated units. (a) Notwithstanding any other\nprovision of law to the contrary, the division of housing and community\nrenewal, the "division", shall promulgate rules and regulations\napplicable …

§ 11. Non-waiver of rights. Any provision of a lease or other rental\nagreement which purports to waive a tenant's rights under this act or\nregulations promulgated pursuant thereto shall be void as contrary to\npublic policy.\n

§ 12. Enforcement and procedures. a. (1) Subject to the conditions and\nlimitations of this paragraph, any owner of housing accommodations in a\ncity having a population of less than one million or a town or village\nas to which an emergency has been declared pursuant to section…

§ 12-a. Rent registration. a. Each housing accommodation in a city\nhaving a population of less than one million or a town or village as to\nwhich an emergency has been declared pursuant to section three of this\nact which is subject to this act shall be registered by the owner\…

§ 13. Cooperation with other governmental agencies. The state division\nof housing and community renewal and any rent guidelines board may\nrequest and shall receive cooperation and assistance in effectuating the\npurposes of this act from all departments, divisions, boards, bur…

§ 14. Application of act. The provisions of this act shall be\napplicable:\n a. in the city of New York; and\n b. in all counties within the state of New York outside the city of\nNew York and shall become and remain effective only in a city, town or\nvillage located therein as …

§ 2. Legislative finding. The legislature hereby finds and declares\nthat a serious public emergency continues to exist in the housing of a\nconsiderable number of persons in the state of New York, that such\nemergency necessitates the intervention of federal, state and local\ng…

§ 3. Local determination of emergency; end of emergency. a. The\nexistence of public emergency requiring the regulation of residential\nrents for all or any class or classes of housing accommodations,\nincluding any plot or parcel of land which had been rented prior to May\nfirs…

§ 4. Establishment of rent guidelines boards; duties. a. In each\ncounty wherein any city having a population of less than one million or\nany town or village has determined the existence of an emergency\npursuant to section three of this act, there shall be created a rent\nguid…

§ 5. Housing accommodations subject to regulation. a. A declaration of\nemergency may be made pursuant to section three as to all or any class\nor classes of housing accommodations in a municipality, except:\n (1) housing accommodations subject to the emergency housing rent\ncon…

* § 5-a. High income rent deregulation. (a) 1. For purposes of this\nsection, annual income shall mean the federal adjusted gross income as\nreported on the New York state income tax return. Total annual income\nmeans the sum of the annual incomes of all persons whose names are\…

§ 6. Regulation of rents. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any\nlease or other rental agreement, no owner shall, on or after the first\nday of the first month or other rental period following a declaration of\nemergency pursuant to section three, which date shall be referred…

§ 7. Maintenance of services. a. In order to collect a rent adjustment\nauthorized pursuant to the provisions of subdivision b of section four,\nthe owner of housing accommodations subject to this act located in a\ncity having a population of less than one million or a town or v…

§ 8. Administration. a. Whenever a city having a population of less\nthan one million, or a town or village has determined the existence of\nan emergency pursuant to section three of this act, the state division\nof housing and community renewal shall be designated as the sole\n…

§ 9. Application for adjustment of initial legal regulated rent. a.\nThe owner or tenant of a housing accommodation described in paragraph\none or two of subdivision b of section six may, within sixty days of the\nlocal effective date of this act or the commencement of the first…