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NY A06045
Bill
Status
3/13/2013
Primary Sponsor
Felix Ortiz
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AI Summary
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Amends Mental Hygiene Law sections 41.33, 41.41, and 41.44 to clarify that no landlord-tenant relationship exists between community residence operators and residents.
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Adds new section 713-B to Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law establishing that discharge of residents from community residences 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 eviction rules.
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Defines "community residence" as specified in Mental Hygiene Law section 1.03, subdivision twenty-eight.
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Prevents residents from using landlord-tenant law protections in eviction or discharge proceedings from community residences.
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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
1/8/2014