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

Section 3.  LOCAL DETERMINATION AS TO CONTINUATION OF EMERGENCY.

The continuation, after May thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-
seven, of the public emergency requiring the regulation and
control of residential rents and evictions within cities having a
population of one million or more shall be a matter for local
determination within each such city. Any such determination shall
be made by the local legislative body of such city on or before
April first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven and at least once in
every third year thereafter following a survey which the city
shall cause to be made of the supply of housing accommodations
within such city, the condition of such accommodations and the
need for continuing the regulation and control of residential
rents and evictions within such city. Such survey shall be
submitted to such legislative body not less than thirty nor more
than sixty days prior to the date of any such determination.