L.L. 1987/001

Enactment date: 2/2/1987

Int. No. 736

By Council Members Clark and Pinkett; also Council Members Foster, Harrison and Wooten

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and local law numbers twenty-two and seventy-three of nineteen hundred eighty-six, in relation to prohibiting the conversion, alteration and demolition of single room occupancy multiple dwellings during a serious public emergency

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Declaration of legislative findings and intent. The council finds and declares that a serious public emergency continues to exist in the housing of a considerable number of persons which emergency has been created by the loss of single room occupancy dwelling units housing lower income persons; that the loss of such housing units has caused serious hardship for occupants who have been forced to relocate; that adequate housing resources for such occupants do not currently exist; that there is evidence to conclude that the ordinary operation of the real estate market in the city will result in further reduction of such units and that units which have been lost will not be replaced; that many of the occupants who have been and will be displaced from single room occupancy dwelling units are elderly and infirm persons of low income who are incapable of finding alternative housing accommodations; that a considerable number of such persons have become a part of a growing homeless population and that, absent legislative intervention in this process, others will follow; that legislative intervention is necessary to stem the tide of conversion of single room occupancy multiple dwellings during the serious public emergency described in this local law and to alleviate the adverse impact on the housing supply and on displaced low income persons resulting from the loss of single room occupancy dwelling units through conversion and demolition and that the provisions of this local law are necessary and designed to protect the public health, safety and general welfare.

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 4. Section seven of local law number twenty-two of nineteen hundred eighty-six is REPEALED.

§ 5. Subdivisions a and c of section 27-198.2 of the administrative code shall expire and shall have no further force or effect on the fifth anniversary date of the effective date of this local law and on the anniversary date of this local law occurring in every fifth year thereafter unless within the thirty day period prior to such anniversary date a local law has been enacted based upon a finding that the serious public emergency described in section one of this local law continues to exist.

§ 6. Any payments made to the low and moderate income housing fund prior to the effective date of this local law shall be transferred to the single room occupancy housing development fund company established pursuant to subdivision i of section 27-198.2 of the administrative code as amended by section two of this local law.

§ 7. If any provision of this local law or its application to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this local law and the applicability of its provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

§ 8. This local law shall take effect immediately.