Every documented failure, mapped to the mechanism that fixes it.

Department of Law regulations governing offerings of cooperative interests in realty. Escrow requirements at §20.3. Under Parts 18 through 25 an offeror is required to periodically amend a Plan — which is the existing authority an amendment docket would publish against.

Requires the offering plan cover to state that "FILING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF LAW DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE DEPARTMENT OR ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCY HAS APPROVED THIS." Acceptance for filing is not approval; the Martin Act is a disclosure statute and the Department of Law does not review the merits or the adequacy of any fund.

Subdivision (ac)(1) through (6) sets the disclosures a sponsor must make regarding compliance with the NYC Reserve Fund Law. Identified in the AG REFB guidance memorandum of 2015-05-04 as the governing disclosure provision; the subdivision text itself was not read.

A revocable consent is required for any vault extending beyond the sidewalk or curbstone line. Plan requirements at 34 RCNY §7-07; filing fees at §7-08; consents generally granted for renewable ten-year terms. Vault rules also appear at 34 RCNY §2-13. Replaces the bare "RCNY Title 34" placeholder.

DHCR/HCR Mitchell-Lama regulations at Part 1700 et seq. A dissolution process already exists: a Notice of Intent filed with HCR, then a Notice of Public Meeting served by door delivery to each tenant no earlier than 90 days before the anticipated dissolution date, a meeting held 10 to 20 days after that notice and at least 60 days before dissolution, and a bar on charging tenants the costs of compliance. Replaces the bare "9 NYCRR" placeholder.

MATERIAL FINDING: contains a dedicated residential cooperative provision permitting variation in transfer fees and charges among shares of the same class without rendering them unequal, provided liquidation rights are substantially equal per share, maintenance charges are fixed equally, and voting is either per-share or one-vote-per-unit. This is the statutory authorization basis a flip tax must rest on.

Shareholder inspection of minutes and record of shareholders on at least five days written demand.

Good faith and the care an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would use. The provision a codified fiduciary duty would amend.

Indemnification is already conditioned on having acted in good faith for a purpose reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the corporation. Confirms the S53 objection answer: the good-faith condition is existing law, not a new imposition.

Authorizes purchase of D&O insurance subject to restrictions.

Requires proof of service, proof of the facts constituting the claim by affidavit (or a verified complaint), and proof of default. Additional-notice requirement: before default against a natural person on a contractual obligation, the plaintiff must mail a further copy of the summons to the residence at least 20 days beforehand. Consumer and medical debt claims by a non-original creditor require chain-of-title affidavits.

The attorney-client privilege provision. Contains a personal-representative/beneficiary provision at 4503(a)(2) but NO exception for a corporation's own shareholders or members — which is precisely the gap a codified fiduciary exception would fill.

MATERIAL FINDING: §7515 is already titled "Mandatory arbitration clauses; prohibited." New York has therefore already legislated a prohibition on pre-dispute mandatory arbitration in another context, which makes extending the principle to common interest community governing documents an extension of settled state policy rather than a novel step.

Verified in jurisdiction_precedents on 2026-07-27; inspector requirement pinned to §5110.

Verified in jurisdiction_precedents on 2026-07-27.

Verified in jurisdiction_precedents on 2026-07-27 via leginfo.legislature.ca.gov.

Verified in jurisdiction_precedents on 2026-07-27. Three-year visual inspection cycle; no credentialing requirement.

Costs and attorney fees recoverable on a demonstration that the action was commenced or continued without a substantial basis in fact and law. Conditional, not automatic.

Covers any communication in a public forum in connection with an issue of public interest, and other lawful conduct in furtherance of free speech or petition. Damages require clear and convincing evidence of knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard.

Requires each newly elected or appointed director to complete an approved educational course of at least four hours AND to certify in writing to the association secretary that they have read the declaration, articles, bylaws and current written policies, will uphold them, and will faithfully discharge their fiduciary responsibility — within one year before, or 90 days after, election or appointment. A director who misses the deadline is suspended from the board until compliant.

MATERIAL FINDING: the housing merchant implied warranty applies to a single family house or a for-sale unit in a multi-unit residential structure "of five stories or less." Most of the NYC condominium market is therefore outside it entirely. §777 itself is the definitions section, not the warranty grant.

The Attorney General offering-plan filing requirement. Expressly reaches cooperative interests in realty and condominiums, and expressly reaches amendments at subdivisions 6(a) and 7(a) — which is what makes an amendment docket administrable under existing authority.

MATERIAL FINDING: New York City already operates an annual property registration keyed to the building, due each September 1 and on any change of ownership or managing agent, and it REQUIRES designation of a managing agent with a successor designation within eight days of the agent's death, incapacity or disqualification. Penalties raised by Local Law 71 of 2023: $500–$1,500 for five units or fewer, $1,000–$5,000 above five. This is a working precedent for a statewide registry. Replaces the "HPD registration rules" placeholder.

Governs property and casualty contracts including cancellation and nonrenewal. Personal lines at §3425; commercial lines at §3426; cancellation procedure and premium return at §3428. A condominium or cooperative master policy is a commercial line, so §3426 is the operative hook.

The commercial-lines cancellation and nonrenewal provision within Article 34. Pinned from the Article 34 section list; the section text itself has not been read individually.

Deceit or collusion with intent to deceive the court or any party, willful delay of a client suit for personal gain, or wrongfully receiving money. Treble damages to the injured party. Attorneys only.

The whistleblower statute. Reaches employees, former employees, and natural persons employed as independent contractors. Good drafting template for the employee limb of a whistleblower provision — it does not reach board members or unit owners.

Umbrella. Sections §28-301.1, §28-301.1.1, §28-302, §28-304, §28-318 and §28-320 within it are individually verified below.

Owners are responsible for maintaining, repairing and replacing the adjacent sidewalk. Where the sidewalk is built over a vault, cellar extension, or other underground structure connected to the property, repair responsibility falls entirely on the owner and the city does not repair. Owner cost liability is limited to the defective flags the department orders repaired.

Effective 2023-09-16. Battery-powered micromobility devices and their batteries must be certified to accredited laboratory safety standards to be sold, leased or rented in the city, with certification displayed on the device, packaging or documentation. Enforced by DCWP with FDNY. Replaces the unconfirmed §15-131 citation previously used in this model.

Local Law 70 of 1982. Applies to landlords in New York City converting buildings with residential units to condominium or cooperative ownership. HPD is the agency charged with oversight. Violations carry civil and criminal sanctions, and the Attorney General has sought injunctive and monetary relief against sponsors violating plan representations of compliance.

Within 30 days after the closing of a conversion pursuant to an offering plan, the offeror must establish and transfer to the cooperative corporation or condominium board a reserve fund for capital repairs, replacements and improvements. Two funding methods: 3% of total price funded within 30 days of the first residential closing, or a 1% mandatory initial contribution plus supplemental contributions at 3% of actual sales price over five years. Superintendent unit, ancillary spaces and non-residential units may be excluded from total price. §26-703(d) permits an exemption, on application to HPD, for buildings completed within three years before conversion. CRITICAL: per AG guidance, "A working capital fund, which may be established by a sponsor, is not a reserve fund."

Housing Maintenance Code definitions including dwelling, family, multiple dwelling, owner and tenant. Correct target for a structure-based redefinition of the regulated unit.

General duty to maintain buildings and service equipment in safe and code-compliant condition and to report dangerous conditions in writing. NOTE: this section does NOT contain the parapet requirement — see §28-301.1.1.

Added by Local Law 126 of 2021, effective 2022-11-07, with annual parapet observation required from 2024-01-01. Applies to all buildings with parapets fronting a public right-of-way regardless of height, excepting fully detached one- and two-family homes and buildings with a barrier preventing access to the exterior wall. Observation reports retained six years under 1 RCNY §103-15. CORRECTION: this model previously cited §28-301.1 for parapets, which is the general owner-responsibility section.

Applies to buildings greater than six stories. Critical examination of exterior walls and appurtenances at intervals set by rule but at least once every five years, filed by a licensed architect or engineer (QEWI). Unsafe conditions to be corrected within 30 days of filing.

Inspection and testing per the schedule in Table N1 of ASME A17.1 as referenced in the Building Code, exempting owner-occupied residential elevators and those in convents and rectories not open to the public. Chair lifts at intervals not exceeding one year. Defects corrected within 45 days of filing, except hazardous conditions requiring immediate correction. NOTE: nothing here measures or reports OUTAGE DURATION, which is the gap S28 addresses.

Local Law 152 of 2016, effective 2020. Four-year inspection cycle by a licensed master plumber or a registered journeyman under direct and continuing LMP supervision. Applies to all buildings except one- and two-family homes and Occupancy Group R-3. Scope covers exposed gas lines from point of entry through building service meters up to tenant spaces, plus combustible-gas testing of public spaces, hallways, corridors, mechanical and boiler rooms.

Codified at §28-320 and §28-321. Covers buildings over 25,000 gross square feet, two or more buildings on the same tax lot together over 50,000, OR — directly relevant here — two or more buildings held in the CONDOMINIUM form governed by the same board of managers together exceeding 50,000. First compliance period 2024, reporting and penalties from 2025-05-01, at $268 per ton of CO2 equivalent over the limit. Limits tighten every five years.

Local Law 18 of 2022, enacted 2022-01-09, enforcement from 2023-09-05. Chapter 31 (§§26-3101–26-3105) requires hosts to register with the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement; Chapter 32 (§§26-3201–26-3203) imposes verification and reporting duties on booking platforms. Chapter 32 is the platform-side hook a cost-reallocation provision would attach to.

Verified in the bills table on 2026-07-27. Enacted 2026-01-29, effective on or about 2026-07-28.

Prohibits acting as a reserve study specialist without registering with the Division; the Commission adopts standards of practice by regulation; the Division may investigate and discipline. Exceptions for association board members and officers acting in their official capacity.

The Mitchell-Lama article. §35 Voluntary dissolution; §35-A Requirements regarding dissolution; §36 Sale of project prior to termination of tax exemption.

Authorizes HDFCs. Tax exemptions at §577; regulatory agreements at §576; incorporation at §573.

Verified UNUSED by complete enumeration of RPL articles on 2026-07-27: the Article 9 family runs 9-A, 9-B, 9-C, 9-D, 9-E and then jumps to Article 10. 9-F is the next available letter. This is a drafting placeholder, not an enacted designation.

Tenant-side receivership. §770 grounds; §776 judgment; §778 appointment of administrator; §781 "Owner" defined; §782 "Dwelling" defined. Applies in New York City and Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester counties. NOTE: whether the §781/§782 definitions reach a condominium or cooperative was NOT confirmed — that unresolved question is precisely the gap S56 proposes to close.

The Condominium Act. Confirms the article all §339-series targets sit in.

Condominium Act definitions: building, capital replacement, common charges, common elements, common expenses, common interest, common profits, declaration, majority, operation of the property, person, property, qualified leasehold condominium, unit, unit designation, unit owner. NOTE: it does NOT separately define "limited common elements" — which is the definitional gap issue 64 turns on.

Establishes four alternative methods for setting each unit's common interest percentage (fair value, floor area, equal percentages, floor space plus factors), bars alteration without the consent of all affected owners, and bars separation of the interest from its unit.

Apportionment by common interest, but the board may specially allocate to non-residential units, apportion by special or exclusive use of particular units or common areas, and charge reduced common expenses to income-restricted affordable units. Special allocation arrangements must be disclosed in the offering plan. This special-allocation power is the lever behind the limited-common-element reclassification pattern.

Governs mandatory and optional bylaw provisions: board of managers, meetings, officers, financial management, use restrictions. Correct target for bylaw-adoption mechanisms.

Requires detailed chronological records of receipts and expenditures plus vouchers, available for examination by unit owners "at convenient hours of weekdays," with an annual written summary. Specifies NO format and NO electronic delivery — this is the primary source that confirms issue 81.

Board lien for unpaid common charges plus interest, subordinate only to tax liens, first mortgages of record, and specified government subordinate mortgages. The board must furnish a statement of unpaid common charges, and neither grantor nor grantee is liable beyond the amount stated.

The classification provision A.3701 amends to move certain owner-occupied cooperative and condominium units into class one.

Tax exemption for new multiple dwellings in a city of one million or more, with affordability conditions — certain provisions require not less than twenty percent of units to meet specified income thresholds, with compliance required throughout the exemption period.

The co-op/condo abatement, created in 1996 to reduce the disparity against comparably valued one-to-three-family homes. Reduces annual property taxes by 17.5 to 28.1 percent depending on average unit assessed value; applies to Class 2 co-op and condo property. Replaces the unconfirmed NYC Admin Code §11-245 citation previously used in this model.

Caps the assessment of a co-op or condo parcel at what it would be assessed if NOT held in that form. Subdivision 3 separately bars assessing rental property as if converted. NOTE: this is an assessment-parity rule; the comparable-rental valuation is New York City's implementation of it, not the section's own text.

Verified in the bills table on 2026-07-27. Passed the Senate twice; Assembly same-as pending.

Verified in the bills table on 2026-07-27. CAUTION: A.8945 files with the State Comptroller, S.7600 with the Attorney General; same-as status unconfirmed.

Verified in the bills table 2026-07-27. Passed Senate Corporations 6-1 on 2026-05-19; committed to Rules 2026-06-05.

Sections: 301 Hearings, 302 Record, 303 Presiding officers, 304 Powers of presiding officers, 305 Disclosure, 306 Evidence, 307 Decisions determinations and orders, 308 Streamlined optional adjudicatory proceedings for small businesses. This is the correct designation for a forum grant.

A model act of the Uniform Law Commission. The 1982 version was adopted by Alaska, Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada and West Virginia; the 2008 version by Connecticut, Delaware, Vermont and Washington. New York does not appear among the adopting states in the sources reviewed. NOTE: New York's non-adoption is an absence in the sources consulted rather than an affirmative statement by any source, and should be confirmed against the Uniform Law Commission enactment map before public use.

Where an attorney represents a personal representative such as an executor or trustee, beneficiaries are not automatically treated as clients and the fiduciary relationship does not automatically waive privilege. This is the existing New York carve-out that an association fiduciary exception would be modelled on — a narrow, verified analogue rather than an appeal to unstated doctrine.