Section 5 - Housing accommodations subject to regulationa.A declaration of emergency may be made pursuant to section three as to all or any class or classes of housing accommodations in a municipality, except: (1) housing accommodations subject to the emergency housing rent control law, or the local emergency housing rent control act, other than housing accommodations subject to the New York city rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine;(2) housing accommodations owned or operated by the United States, the state of New York, any political subdivision, agency or instrumentality thereof, any municipality or any public housing authority;
(3) housing accommodations in buildings in which rentals are fixed by or subject to the supervision of the state division of housing and community renewal under other provisions of law or the New York city department of housing preservation and development or the New York state urban development corporation, or, to the extent that regulation under this act is inconsistent therewith aided by government insurance under any provision of the National Housing Act;(4)(a) housing accommodations in a building containing fewer than six dwelling units, other than any plot or parcel of land in cities having a population of one million or more which had been rented prior to May first, nineteen hundred fifty, for the purpose of permitting the tenant thereof to construct or place his own dwelling thereon and heretofore or hereafter decontrolled, exempt, not subject to control or exempted from regulation and control under the provisions of the emergency housing rent control law or the local emergency housing rent control act and on which plot or parcel of land there exists a dwelling owned and occupied by a tenant of such plot or parcel;(b) for purposes of this paragraph four, a building shall be deemed to contain six or more dwelling units if it is part of a multiple family garden-type maisonette dwelling complex containing six or more dwelling units having common facilities such as a sewer line, water main or heating plant and operated as a unit under common ownership, notwithstanding that certificates of occupancy were issued for portions thereof as one- or two-family dwellings.(5) housing accommodations in buildings completed or buildings substantially rehabilitated as family units on or after January first, nineteen hundred seventy-four; provided that an owner claiming exemption from rent stabilization on the basis of a substantial rehabilitation, where the work for such rehabilitation was initiated on or after the first day of January, two thousand twenty-four, shall seek approval from state division of housing and community renewal within one year of the completion of the substantial rehabilitation, and ultimately obtain such approval, which shall be denied on the following grounds: (a) the owner or its predecessors in interest have engaged in harassment of tenants in the five years preceding the completion of the substantial rehabilitation;(b) the building was not in a substandard or seriously deteriorated condition requiring substantial rehabilitation; or(c) any additional grounds as set forth by regulation;(5) housing accommodations in buildings completed or buildings substantially rehabilitated as family units on or after January first, nineteen hundred seventy-four; provided that an owner claiming exemption from rent stabilization on the basis of substantial rehabilitation shall seek approval from state division of housing and community renewal within one year of the completion of the substantial rehabilitation, or for any building previously alleged to have been substantially rehabilitated before the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-three that amended this paragraph, within six months of such effective date, and ultimately obtain such approval, which shall be denied on the following grounds:(a) the owner or its predecessors in interest have engaged in harassment of tenants in the five years preceding the completion of the substantial rehabilitation;(b) the building was not in a substandard or seriously deteriorated condition requiring substantial rehabilitation;(5) housing accommodations in buildings completed or buildings substantially rehabilitated as family units on or after January first, nineteen hundred seventy-four; (5-a) housing accommodations located outside of a city with a population of one million or more in any such buildings that were vacant and unoccupied on June first, two thousand nineteen and had been vacant and unoccupied for at least the one-year period immediately preceding such date;(6) housing accommodations owned or operated by a hospital, convent, monastery, asylum, public institution, or college or school dormitory or any institution operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes on a non-profit basis other than (i) those accommodations occupied by a tenant on the date such housing accommodation is acquired by any such institution, or which are occupied subsequently by a tenant who is not affiliated with such institution at the time of his initial occupancy or (ii) permanent housing accommodations with government contracted services, as of and after June fourteenth, two thousand nineteen, to vulnerable individuals or individuals with disabilities who are or were homeless or at risk of homelessness; provided, however, that the terms of leases in existence as of June fourteenth, two thousand nineteen, shall only be affected upon lease renewal, and further provided that upon the vacancy of such housing accommodations, the legal regulated rent for such housing accommodations shall be the legal regulated rent paid for such housing accommodations by the prior tenant, subject only to any adjustment adopted by the applicable rent guidelines board;(7) rooms or other housing accommodations in hotels, other than hotel accommodations in cities having a population of one million or more not occupied on a transient basis and heretofore subject to the emergency housing rent control law, the local emergency housing rent control act or to the New York city rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine; (8) any motor court, or any part thereof, any trailer, or trailer space used exclusively for transient occupancy or any part thereof; or any tourist home serving transient guests exclusively, or any part thereof; The term "motor court" shall mean an establishment renting rooms, cottages or cabins, supplying parking or storage facilities for motor vehicles in connection with such renting and other services and facilities customarily supplied by such establishments, and commonly known as motor, auto or tourist court in the community.
The term "tourist home" shall mean a rooming house which caters primarily to transient guests and is known as a tourist home in the community.
(9) non-housekeeping, furnished housing accommodations, located within a single dwelling unit not used as a rooming or boarding house, but only if: (a) no more than two tenants for whom rent is paid (husband and wife being considered one tenant for this purpose), not members of the landlord's immediate family, live in such dwelling unit, and(b) the remaining portion of such dwelling unit is occupied by the landlord or his immediate family.(10) housing accommodations in buildings operated exclusively for charitable purposes on a non-profit basis except for permanent housing accommodations with government contracted services, as of and after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand nineteen that amended this paragraph, to vulnerable individuals or individuals with disabilities who are or were homeless or at risk of homelessness; provided, however, that the terms of leases in existence as of the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand nineteen that amended this paragraph, shall only be affected upon lease renewal, and further provided that upon the vacancy of such housing accommodations, the legal regulated rent for such housing accommodations shall be the legal regulated rent paid for such housing accommodations by the prior tenant, subject only to any adjustment adopted by the applicable rent guidelines board;(11) housing accommodations which are not occupied by the tenant, not including subtenants or occupants, as his or her primary residence, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. For the purposes of determining primary residency, a tenant who is a victim of domestic violence, as defined in section four hundred fifty-nine-a of the social services law, who has left the unit because of such violence, and who asserts an intent to return to the housing accommodation shall be deemed to be occupying the unit as his or her primary residence. For the purposes of this paragraph, where a housing accommodation is rented to a not-for-profit hospital for residential use, affiliated subtenants authorized to use such accommodations by such hospital shall be deemed to be tenants. For the purposes of this paragraph, where a housing accommodation is rented to a not-for-profit for providing, as of and after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand nineteen that amended this paragraph, permanent housing to individuals who are or were homeless or at risk of homelessness, affiliated subtenants authorized to use such accommodations by such not-for-profit shall be deemed to be tenants. No action or proceeding shall be commenced seeking to recover possession on the ground that a housing accommodation is not occupied by the tenant as his or her primary residence unless the owner or lessor shall have given thirty days notice to the tenant of his or her intention to commence such action or proceeding on such grounds.(14)(i) housing accommodations owned as a cooperative or condominium unit which are or become vacant on or after the effective date of this paragraph, except that this subparagraph shall not apply to units occupied by non-purchasing tenants under section three hundred fifty-two-eee of the general business law until the occurrence of a vacancy. (ii)This paragraph shall not apply, however, to or become effective with respect to housing accommodations which the commissioner determines or finds the landlord or any person acting on his or her behalf, with intent to cause the tenant to vacate, engaged in any course of conduct (including, but not limited to, interruption or discontinuance of required services) which interfered with or disturbed or was intended to interfere with or disturb the comfort, repose, peace or quiet of the tenant in his or her use or occupancy of the housing accommodations. In connection with such course of conduct any other general enforcement provision of this act shall also apply; b.Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, nothing shall prevent the declaration of an emergency pursuant to section three of this act for rental housing accommodations located in buildings or structures which are subject to the provisions of article eighteen of the private housing finance law.N.Y. Emergency Tenant Protection Act Law § 5
Amended by New York Laws 2024, ch. 95,Sec. 3, eff. 12/22/2023, op. to all pending proceedings on and after 12/22/2023.Amended by New York Laws 2023, ch. 760,Sec. A-5, eff. 12/22/2023, op. to all pending proceedings on and after 12/22/2023.Amended by New York Laws 2019, ch. 39, Secs. Q-17, Q-5 eff. 6/24/2019.Amended by New York Laws 2019, ch. 36, Secs. J-1, G-4, D-6, D-3 eff. 6/14/2019.Amended by New York Laws 2015, ch. 20, Sec. A-8, eff. 6/15/2015. See New York Laws 2019, ch. 39, Sec. Q-10.