N.Y. Emergency Housing Rent Control Law 274/46 337/61 § 1: Declaration and findings; termination

Chapter 274 of the laws of 1946 and as amended generally by chapter 337

of the laws of 1961 Emergency housing rent control law

Section 1. Declaration and findings; termination. 1. The legislature

hereby finds that a serious public emergency continues to exist in the

housing of a considerable number of persons in the state of New York

which emergency was created by war, the effects of war and the aftermath

of hostilities; that such emergency necessitated the intervention of

federal, state and local government in order to prevent speculative,

unwarranted and abnormal increases in rents; that there continues to

exist an acute shortage of dwellings; that unless residential rents and

evictions continue to be regulated and controlled, disruptive practices

and abnormal conditions will produce serious threats to the public

health, safety and general welfare; that to prevent such perils to

health, safety and welfare, preventive action by the legislature

continues to be imperative; that such action is necessary in order to

prevent exactions of unjust, unreasonable and oppressive rents and

rental agreements and to forestall profiteering, speculation and other

disruptive practices tending to produce threats to the public health;

that the transition from regulation to a normal market of free

bargaining between landlord and tenant, while still the objective of

state policy, must be administered with due regard for such emergency;

that in order to prevent uncertainty, hardship and dislocation, the

provisions of this act are declared to be necessary and designed to

protect the public health, safety and general welfare.

2. The provisions of this act, and all regulations, orders and

requirements thereunder shall remain in full force and effect

thereafter.