The New York City Council - File #: Int 1004-2018

• File #: Int 1004-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Establish a demonstration program to facilitate the creation and alteration of habitable apartments in basements and cellars of certain one- and two-family dwellings.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Committee
• File created: 6/28/2018
• In control: Committee on Housing and Buildings
• On agenda: 6/28/2018
• Title: A Local Law to establish a demonstration program to facilitate the creation and alteration of habitable apartments in basements and cellars of certain one- and two-family dwellings
• Sponsors: Brad S. Lander, Fernando Cabrera , Rafael L. Espinal, Jr., Inez D. Barron, Kalman Yeger , (by request of the Mayor)
• Indexes: Report Required

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/28/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
6/28/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 1004

By Council Members Lander, Cabrera, Espinal, Barron and Yeger (by request of the Mayor)

Title
A Local Law to establish a demonstration program to facilitate the creation and alteration of habitable apartments in basements and cellars of certain one- and two-family dwellings
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:


Section 1. Definitions. a. Except as indicated in subdivision b of this section, the terms used in this local law have the meanings ascribed to such terms in title 28 of the administrative code of the city of New York.
b. For purposes of this local law, the following terms have the following meanings:
PROGRAM AREA. The term "program area" means Brooklyn community district 5.
1968 BUILDING CODE. The term "1968 building code" has the same definition as such term is defined in section 28-101.5 of the administrative code.
ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. The term "administrative code" means the administrative code of the city of New York.
APARTMENT. The term "apartment" means a dwelling unit providing permanent provisions for both sanitation and kitchen facilities, occupied or arranged to be occupied, by not more than 1 family maintaining a common household.
BASEMENT. The term "basement" means a story partly below the grade plane and having less than one-half its clear height (measured from finished floor to finished ceiling) below the grade plane.
CELLAR. The term "cellar" means that portion of a building that is partly or wholly underground, and having one-half or more of its clear height (measured from finished floor to finished ceiling) below the grade plane. Notwithstanding any local law to the contrary, as used herein, a cellar shall be counted as a story in measuring the height of a building.
CITY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. The term "city financial assistance" means any loan, grant, tax credit, tax exemption, tax abatement, subsidy, mortgage, debt forgiveness, land conveyance for less th...