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

Section 11. TRANSFER OF CERTAIN PENDING MATTERS.

Except as provided in subdivision thirteen of this section, any
matter, application, proceeding or protest undertaken, filed or
commenced by, with or before the temporary state housing rent
commission or the state rent administrator relating to the
regulation and control or residential rents and evictions within
a city having a population of one million or more and pending on
May first, nineteen hundred sixty-two, shall be transferred to,
conducted by, and completed or determined by the city housing
rent agency. In discharging such responsibilities the city
housing rent agency shall act in conformity with the provisions
of the state emergency housing rent control law, and the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder, governing such matters,
applications or proceedings, unless at the time such action is
taken, such state law, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder, have been amended or superseded by local laws,
ordinances, rules or regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision
five of this section, and in such event, in conformity therewith
to the extent such local law, ordinances, rules or regulations
are made expressly applicable to such matters, applications or
proceedings.