The New York City Council - File #: Int 1104-2018

• File #: Int 1104-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Expanding the right to counsel for tenants.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Committee
• File created: 9/12/2018
• In control: Committee on Housing and Buildings
• On agenda: 9/12/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding the right to counsel for tenants
• Sponsors: Mark Levine, Vanessa L. Gibson, Diana Ayala , Costa G. Constantinides, Alicka Ampry-Samuel

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/12/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
9/12/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 1104

By Council Members Levine, Gibson, Ayala, Constantinides and Ampry-Samuel

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding the right to counsel for tenants
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 26-1301 of the administrative law of the city of New York, as added by local law number 136 for the year 2017, is amended to read as follows:
? 26-1301 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
Brief legal assistance. The term "brief legal assistance" means individualized legal assistance provided in a single consultation by a designated organization to a covered individual in connection with a covered proceeding.
Coordinator. The term "coordinator" means the coordinator of the office of civil justice.
Covered individual. The term "covered individual" means a tenant of a rental dwelling
unit located in the city or, where the tenant of record does not currently reside in said rental dwelling unit, the current occupant of a rental dwelling unit located in the city, [including any tenant in a building operated by the New York city housing authority,] who is a respondent or defendant, or who has legal standing to be a respondent or defendant, in a covered proceeding.
Covered proceeding. The term "covered proceeding" means any [summary] proceeding in [housing] a court or before an administrative agency to evict, eject, terminate the tenancy, seek a certificate of eviction, or terminate an income-based rental subsidy of a covered individual, or any appeal of such a proceeding. [including a summary proceeding to seek possession for the non-payment of rent or a holdover, or an administrative proceeding of the New York city housing authority for termination of tenancy.]
Designated citywide languages. The term "designated citywide languages" has the meaning ascribed to such term in section 23-1...