STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1561 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the real property actions and proceedings law, in relation to grounds where no landlord-tenant relationship exists The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 7 and 10 of section 713 of the real property 2 actions and proceedings law, subdivision 7 as added by chapter 312 of 3 the laws of 1962 and subdivision 10 as amended by chapter 467 of the 4 laws of 1981, are amended to read as follows: 5 7. [He is a licensee of the person entitled to possession of the prop- 6 erty at the time of the license, and (a) his license has expired, or (b) 7 his license has been revoked by the licensor, or (c) the licensor is no 8 longer entitled to possession of the property;] The person is an occu- 9 pant who entered into possession of the property lawfully and the legal 10 basis for the person's entitlement to possession has expired or been 11 revoked; provided, however, that a mortgagee or vendee in possession 12 shall not be deemed to be a licensee within the meaning of this subdivi- 13 sion. A residential occupant who has peaceably been in actual possession 14 of the property for at least thirty days shall not be involuntarily 15 deprived of possession except by a special proceeding under this 16 section. 17 10. The person in possession has entered the property or remains in 18 possession by force or unlawful means [and he or his predecessor in 19 interest was not in quiet possession for three years before the time of 20 the forcible or unlawful entry or detainer] and the petitioner was 21 peaceably in actual possession at the time of the forcible or unlawful 22 entry or in constructive possession at the time of the forcible or 23 unlawful detainer; no notice to quit shall be required in order to main- 24 tain a proceeding under this subdivision. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04099-01-5