N.Y. Emergency Housing Rent Control Law 274/46 337/61 § 14: Intent

§ 14. Intent. 1. It is the intention of this act to subject to control

only those housing accommodations, as that term is defined herein, which

were subject to rent control and for which a maximum rent was in effect

on March first, nineteen hundred fifty, pursuant to federal or local

laws, and in the discretion of the commission those housing

accommodations for which a maximum rent was thereafter established,

pursuant to the provisions of section four hereof.

2. Any reference made in this act to the local laws specified in

chapter one of the laws of nineteen hundred fifty shall be deemed to be

solely for the purposes of identification, and if any of such laws shall

be held invalid, the reference made herein and any maximum rent

established hereunder shall not be affected thereby.

3. The provisions of this section shall be deemed to supersede any

other inconsistent provisions of this act.

4. Notwithstanding the decontrol of housing accommodations therein

pursuant to this act, unless otherwise provided herein, no municipality

shall have the power to adopt local laws with respect to the

registration or control of rents or evictions or otherwise to the

subject matter of this act.