N.Y.C. Admin. Code § L.L. 1985/059: L.L. 1985/059

Enactment date: 8/5/1985

Int. No. 885-A

By the Vice Chairman (Council Member Cuite) and Council Member Spigner (by request of the Mayor); also Council Members Alter, Ferrer, Foster, Gerges, Greitzer, Lisa, O'Donovan and Pinkett (Passed under a message of necessity from the Mayor)

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a moratorium on conversion, alteration and demolition of single room occupancy multiple dwellings

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Declaration of legislative findings and intent. The council hereby finds and declares that a serious public emergency exists 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 to effectuate relocation of such occupants do not currently exist; that many of such occupants 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 part of a growing homeless population; that the intervention of the city government is necessary to protect such housing stock by imposing a moratorium on conversions, alterations and demolitions of single room occupancy multiple dwellings; that during such moratorium the department of housing preservation and development, after consultation with the mayor's office of SRO housing, shall arrange for the preparation of a study to determine the best means of making available single room occupancy dwelling units and other housing for low income persons; that the monies paid into the housing fund created under this legislation shall be separate from and not applicable to any mandate to create or substantially rehabilitate housing units as provided for in local law 78 of 1984; 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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§ 5. 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.

§ 6. This local law shall take effect immediately and shall be retroactive to and shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after January ninth, nineteen hundred eighty-five. Subdivisions a and c of section C26-118.10 of the administrative code, as added by section two of this local law, shall cease to have any force or effect and shall terminate eighteen months after such effective date.