New York Rent Laws
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The Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Act [1962]

Section 4.  ESTABLISHMENT OF CITY HOUSING RENT AGENCY.

On or before April first, nineteen hundred sixty-two, the mayor
of each city having a population of one million or more shall
establish or designate an official, bureau, board, commission or
agency of such city (referred to in this section as the "city
housing rent agency") to administer the regulation and control of
residential rents and evictions within such city unless such
city, acting through its local legislative body, shall have
enacted, prior to April first, nineteen hundred sixty-two, a
local law or ordinance pursuant to subdivision five of this
section, prescribing a different method of establishing or
designating a city housing rent agency and in such case such
agency shall be established or designated in accordance with said
local law or ordinance.