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 B - Rent And Eviction Regulations › Part 2100 - Scope › Section 2100.2 - Statutory definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
L. 1964, ch. 244
When used in this Subchapter, unless a different meaning
						clearly appears from the context, the following terms shall mean and
						include:
(a)
Commission.
Prior to July 1, 1964, the Temporary State Housing Rent
						Commission created by the act. Effective July 1, 1964, the Division of Housing
						and Community Renewal.
(b)
Housing accommodation.
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, including (1) entire structures or premises as
						distinguished from the individual housing accommodations contained therein,
						wherein 25 or less rooms are rented or offered for rent by any lessee,
						sublessee or other tenant of such entire structure or premises and (2) housing
						accommodations which were previously exempt, or not subject to control as a
						result of conversion or a change from a nonhousing to a housing use and which
						have subsequently been certified by a municipal department having jurisdiction
						to be a fire hazard or in a continued dangerous condition or detrimental to
						life or health but only so long as such illegal or hazardous condition
						continues and without further certification with respect thereto, and any plot
						or parcel of land which had been rented prior to May 1, 1950, for the purpose
						of permitting the tenant thereof to construct or place his own dwelling
						thereon, unless exempt or excluded from control pursuant to any other provision
						of this Subchapter.
(c)
Rent.
Consideration, charge, fee or other thing of value,
						including any bonus, benefit or gratuity demanded or received for or in
						connection with the use or occupancy of housing accommodations or the transfer
						of a lease for such housing accommodations. Rent shall not include authorized
						surcharges, fees, charges or penalties.
(d)
Maximum rent.
The maximum lawful rent for use of housing
						accommodations. Maximum rents may be formulated in terms of rents and other
						charges and allowances.
(e)
Person.
An individual, corporation, partnership, association, or
						any other organized group of individuals or the legal successor or
						representative of any of the foregoing.
(f)
Landlord.
An owner, lessor, sublessor, assignee, proprietary lessee
						of a housing accommodation in a structure or premises owned by a co-operative
						corporation or association, or other person receiving or entitled to receive
						rent for the use or occupancy of any housing accommodation or an agent of any
						of the foregoing.
(g)
Tenant.
A tenant, subtenant, lessee, sublessee or any other
						person entitled to the possession or to the use or occupancy of any housing
						accommodation or is entitled to occupy the housing accommodation as a tenant
						pursuant to any other provision of this act.
(h)
Documents.
Records, books, accounts, correspondence, memoranda and
						other documents, and drafts and copies of any of the
						foregoing.
(i)
Municipality.
A city, town or village.
(j)
Local governing body.
(1) In the case of a city, the council,
					 common council or board of aldermen and the board of estimate, board of
					 estimate and apportionment or board of estimate and contract, if there be
					 one.
(2) In the case of a town, the
					 town board.
(3) In the case of a
					 village, the board of trustees.