Loft Law Amendment (also referred to as Expanded Loft Law) is a New York law that created a new window period for recognition of

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tenants that previously did not qualify under the original

1982 Loft Law Article 7-C of the New York Multiple Dwelling Law, commonly known as the 1982 Loft Law, was designed to protect the residential tenants of certain former commercial buildings in New York City from substandard conditions, eviction, and unfair re ...

. The purpose of this bill is to extend provisions of the Loft Law to buildings which have been occupied residentially for 12 consecutive months during the period starting January 1, 2008 and ending December 31, 2009.

Legislative history

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Martin Malave Dilan introduced the "Expanded Loft Law" in the

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in 2010. The 2010 version of the bill is coded as S7178A. The bill was amended in May 2010 and passed in the

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(A05667C) on June 3, 2010. On June 8, 2010, the

New York State Senate The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature; the New York State Assembly is its lower house. Its members are elected to two-year terms; there are no term limits. There are 63 seats in the Senate. Partisan com ...

passed the “Expanded Loft Law”, bil
S7178A
The bill was signed into law by New York Governor David Paterson on June 21, 2010.

Provisions

* Amends the definition of loft dwellings to include

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buildings occupied for residential purposes for 12 consecutive months from January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2009, and extends Loft Law protections to tenants in such buildings * Requires non-residential space in such buildings to be offered for residential use only after a residential

certificate of occupancy Certificate may refer to: * Birth certificate * Marriage certificate * Death certificate * Gift certificate * Certificate of authenticity, a document or seal certifying the authenticity of something * Certificate of deposit, or CD, a financial ...

has been obtained for such space * Requires owners of loft buildings to achieve compliance with the standards of

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and

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, and take reasonable and necessary action to obtain certificate of occupancy as a class A multiple dwelling for the residential portion of the building * Authorizes the Loft Board to extend any

compliance Compliance can mean: Healthcare * Compliance (medicine), a patient's (or doctor's) adherence to a recommended course of treatment * Compliance (physiology), the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions (this is a ...

deadline that an owner is unable to meet for reasons beyond his or her control * Authorizes the Loft Board, upon good cause shown, to extend the time of compliance twice with the requirement to obtain a residential certificate of occupancy for periods not to exceed 12 months each * Allows owners of such buildings to apply to the Loft Board for an exemption of a building if the owner can show it would cause an unjustifiable hardship * Provides that these interim multiple dwellings become subject to the

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after they are legalized * Makes the Loft Law permanent

References

External links

Text of New York State Assembly Bill A05667A - also referred to as the Loft Law Amendment

New York State Senate OPEN Legislation search - S7178A

New York City Loft Tenants information site
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