New York Rent Laws
EHRCL Table of Contents

The Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Act [1962]

Section 15. INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION.

The temporary state housing rent commission and the state rent
administrator shall cooperate with the city housing rent agency
in effectuating the purposes of this act and shall make available
to the city housing rent agency such cooperation, information,
records and data as will assist the city housing rent agency in
effectuating such purposes.

Upon the request of the city housing rent agency, all such
information, records and data relating to the regulation and
control of residential rents and evictions within such city shall
be transferred to the city housing rent agency on May first,
nineteen hundred sixty-two or as soon thereafter as may be
practicable.

Subject to the approval of the state rent administrator, the
state commissioner of general services is hereby authorized to
sublease or otherwise make available, in part or in whole, to the
city housing rent agency, upon such terms and conditions as the
said commissioner may prescribe, any premises leased to the state
and occupied on or prior to May first, nineteen hundred sixty-two
by the temporary state housing rent commission.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred seventy-
eight of the state finance law, the state commissioner of general
services is hereby authorized to sell, lease or otherwise make
available to the city housing rent agency, upon such terms and
conditions as the said commissioner may prescribe and subject to
the approval of the state rent administrator, any or all personal
property used on or prior to May first, nineteen hundred sixty-
two by the temporary state housing rent commission.