New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle S - Division of Housing and Community Renewal › Chapter VII - Emergency Housing Rent Control › Subchapter D - Rent And Eviction Regulations-new York City › Part 2200 - Scope › Section 2200.2 - Statutory definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
When used in these regulations, unless a different
						meaning clearly appears from the content, the following terms shall mean and
						include:
(a) Administrator. The
					 Commissioner of the Division of Housing and Community Renewal.
(b) City. The City of New York or an
					 administrative agency of the City of New York.
(c) Documents. Records, books, accounts,
					 correspondence, memoranda and other documents, and drafts and copies of any of
					 the foregoing.
(d) Federal act. The
					 Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, and as thereafter amended and as
					 superseded by the Housing and Rent Act of 1947, and as the latter was
					 thereafter amended prior to May 1, 1950, and the regulations adopted pursuant
					 thereto.
(e) Housing
					 accommodations. Subject to the provisions of subdivisions (f) and (g) of this
					 section, any building or structure, permanent or temporary, or any part
					 thereof, occupied or intended to be occupied by one or more individuals as a
					 residence, home, sleeping place, boarding house, lodging house or hotel,
					 together with the land and buildings appurtenant thereto, and all services,
					 privileges, furnishings, furniture and facilities supplied in connection with
					 the occupation thereof, and any plot or parcel of land (as distinguished from
					 any building constructed or placed thereon) which is not owned by the city and
					 which was rented prior to May 1, 1950, for the purpose of permitting the tenant
					 thereof to construct thereon his own building or structure designed exclusively
					 for residential occupancy by not more than two families, and on which there
					 exists such a building or structure owned and occupied by a tenant of such plot
					 or parcel, including:
(1) entire structures
					 or premises, as distinguished from the individual housing accommodations
					 contained therein, wherein 25 or fewer rooms are rented or offered for rent by
					 any lessee, sublessee or other tenant of the entire structure or premises, and
					 where such lessee, sublessee or other tenant occupies a portion of the
					 structure or premises as his dwelling;
(2) housing accommodations in any multiple
					 dwelling aided by a loan made by the city under article 8 of the Private
					 Housing Finance Law, provided that where any such housing accommodations were
					 not subject to rent control immediately prior to the first date on which moneys
					 are advanced to the landlord under the loan, or the occupancy date as defined
					 in such article 8, whichever is earlier:
(i)
					 rent control hereunder as to such housing accommodations shall begin on such
					 earlier date; and
(ii) such control
					 shall continue only so long as is required by such article 8;
(3) housing accommodations in any
					 multiple dwelling with respect to which tax exemption and tax abatement under
					 section J51-2.5 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York begin after
					 April 30, 1962, notwithstanding that immediately prior to the date when such
					 tax exemption and tax abatement begin, such housing accommodations may not have
					 been subject to control. Where any such housing accommodations were not
					 controlled immediately prior to such date:
(i) they shall become subject to control when
					 tax exemption and tax abatement begin; and
(ii) they shall remain subject to control
					 until the date on which such tax exemption or tax abatement terminates,
					 whichever is later; and
(4) housing accommodations which become
					 subject to control pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5), (9), (10),
					 (11), (12), (13) or (14) of subdivision (f) of this section or section
					 2200.9 of this Part.