File #: Int 0030-2018    Version: * Name: Recovery of relocation expenses incurred by the department of housing preservation and development pursuant to a vacate order.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
File created: 1/31/2018 In control: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 1/31/2018 Final action:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the recovery of relocation expenses incurred by the department of housing preservation and development pursuant to a vacate order.
Sponsors: Margaret S. Chin, Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Justin L. Brannan, Mark Levine, Carlina Rivera
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 30, 2. Int. No. 30, 3. January 31, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 30

 

By Council Members Chin, Cornegy, Brannan, Levine and Rivera

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the recovery of relocation expenses incurred by the department of housing preservation and development pursuant to a vacate order.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Subdivision 3 of § 26-305 of chapter 2 of title 26 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                     3. The department may bring an action against the owner for the recovery of such expenses. The institution of such action shall not suspend or bar the right to pursue any other remedy provided by this section or any other law for the recovery of such expenses. As part of such action for recovery the department may require the owner to deposit moneys in an escrow account, naming the department as escrowee. Such moneys shall be equivalent to at least ten per cent of the rent roll, of the building from which such tenants were relocated, for five years preceding the vacate order.

                     § 2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment, except that the commissioner of housing preservation and development shall take such actions as are necessary for its implementation, including the promulgation of rules, prior to such effective date.

 

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