STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

ASSEMBLY, No. 537

with Assembly Floor Amendments

(Proposed By Assemblywoman CRECCO)

ADOPTED: FEBRUARY 27, 1997

      These amendments clarify which dwellings are not covered by the anti-eviction law. The committee substitute had added two new categories of dwellings which would fall outside of the statute, and thus allow a landlord to use summary dispossession proceedings. One category added was single family homes; the other was buildings comprised of four or less dwelling units in which an immediate family member of the owner of the building was to reside on a permanent basis. These amendments delete the latter category of building from being excluded in general from the anti-eviction law and instead amend the statute to provide a good cause for eviction if an owner of a building containing not more than four residential dwelling units seeks to personally occupy, or his or her immediate family member seeks to personally occupy, a dwelling unit in the building. The amendments also reflect the most current version of law, as amended by P.L.1996, c.131.