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NY S03078
Bill
Status
6/16/2011
Primary Sponsor
Shirley Huntley
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AI Summary
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Amends Mental Hygiene Law section 41.33 to clarify that no landlord-tenant relationship exists between community residence operators and residents of facilities for the mentally disabled.
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Adds new provisions to Mental Hygiene Law sections 41.41 and 41.44 explicitly stating that community residence operators and residents do not have a landlord-tenant relationship.
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Creates new Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law section 713-b specifying that discharge from a community residence or termination of residency agreements must follow Office of Mental Health or Office for People with Developmental Disabilities laws, regulations, and procedures rather than landlord-tenant law.
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Defines "community residence" in the bill as a facility as defined in Mental Hygiene Law section 1.03, subdivision twenty-eight.
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Takes effect immediately upon enactment.
Legislative Description
Relates to the discharge of residents of a community residence; provides that nothing shall be deemed construed as creating a relationship of landlord and tenant between an operator of a community residence and a resident; defines community residence.
Last Action
referred to mental health
4/25/2012