File #: Int 1037-2024    Version: Name: Posting certain information in multiple dwellings containing rent stabilized units.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 9/12/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to posting certain information in multiple dwellings containing rent stabilized units
Sponsors: Sandy Nurse, Lincoln Restler, Tiffany Cabán, Chi A. Ossé, Alexa Avilés, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Crystal Hudson, Shahana K. Hanif, Shaun Abreu, Christopher Marte, Kevin C. Riley, Erik D. Bottcher, Chris Banks, Julie Won, Nantasha M. Williams, Shekar Krishnan, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Oswald Feliz, Diana I. Ayala, Lynn C. Schulman, Gale A. Brewer, Farah N. Louis, Linda Lee, Carlina Rivera , Darlene Mealy, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
Council Member Sponsors: 28
Summary: This bill would require the owner of a multiple dwelling containing rent stabilized units to post a sign, stating that the building contains rent stabilized units and providing information about how tenants can submit inquiries to New York State Homes and Community Renewal to find out if their units are rent stabilized. The sign would be required to be in English and Spanish, and placed in the common area at such building’s entrance.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1037-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1037, 3. Int. No. 1037, 4. September 12, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-12-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 12, 2024, 7. Committee Report 11/12/24, 8. Hearing Testimony 11/12/24, 9. Hearing Transcript 11/12/24, 10. Proposed Int. No. 1037-A - 5/21/25, 11. Committee Report 5/28/25, 12. Int. No. 1037-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 13. Int. No. 1037-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 14. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 15. May 28, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 16. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-28-25

Int. No. 1037-A

 

By Council Members Nurse, Restler, Cabán, Ossé, Avilés, Sanchez, Brooks-Powers, Gutiérrez, Hudson, Banks, Hanif, Abreu, Marte, Riley, Bottcher, Banks, Won, Williams, Krishnan, De La Rosa, Feliz, Ayala, Schulman, Brewer, Louis, Lee, Rivera, Mealy and the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to posting certain information in multiple dwellings containing rent stabilized units

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 27-2104 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 5 for the year 1992, is amended to read as follows:

§ 27-2104 Posting of serial number and sign regarding rent stabilized dwelling units. a. An identification sign containing the dwelling serial number assigned by the department for the purpose of identifying the registered multiple dwelling and the owner, managing agent, and agent designated by the owner for the collection of rental payments if different from the managing agent, shall be posted in every multiple dwelling in the manner and location prescribed by the department.

b. In any multiple dwelling that contains 1 or more dwelling units subject to the rent stabilization law of 1969 pursuant to chapter 4 of title 26, the owner shall post a notice in a form approved by the commissioner in a conspicuous location within the common area at the entrance of such building, that reads as follows: “This building contains one or more units that are subject to the Rent Stabilization Law of 1969. To find out if your unit is registered as rent stabilized, contact the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR). Owners of such buildings must submit an annual filing to DHCR and provide each tenant with a copy of the information that pertains to their unit. Owners that fail to file may be subject to penalties.” Such sign shall also include the phone number of the New York state division of housing and community renewal office of rent administration and the website address where a rent stabilization inquiry may be submitted to the New York state division of housing and community renewal. Such sign shall be posted in English and Spanish and include a website address where the notice may be obtained in any of the other designated citywide languages, as defined in section 23-1101. The department may update such sign to reflect the name of the agency or entity that provides information on whether a dwelling unit is registered as a rent stabilized dwelling unit as needed.

c. Any owner who violates the provisions of subdivision b of this section shall be liable for a civil penalty pursuant to subdivision (a) of section 27-2115.

§ 2. Prior to the effective date of section one this local law, the department of housing preservation and development shall execute an agreement with the New York state division of housing and community renewal to use data regarding the rent stabilization status of a building for the purposes of enforcing subdivision b of section 27-2104 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by section one of such local law.    

§ 3. This local law takes effect 210 days after it becomes law, except that section two of this local law takes effect immediately.

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