Title 9 Part 2528

Each housing accommodation subject to the RSL on April 1, 1984, or thereafter, and not exempted from registration by the DHCR, shall be registered by the owner thereof with the DHCR within 90 days after such date.

In such manner and at such time as shall be determined by the DHCR pursuant to section 2527.11 of this Title:

Penalty for failure to register

(a) The failure to properly and timely comply with the rent registration

requirements of this Part shall, until such time as such registration is completed, bar an owner from applying

for or collecting any rent in excess of: the base date rent, plus any lawful adjustments allowable prior to the

failure to register. Such a bar includes but is not limited to rent adjustments pursuant to section 2522.8 of this

Title. The late filing of a registration shall result in the elimination, prospectively, of such penalty, and for

proceedings commenced on or after July 1, 1991, provided that increases in the legal regulated rent were

lawful except for the failure to file a timely registration, an owner, upon the service and filing of a late

registration, shall not be found to have collected a rent in excess of the legal regulated rent at any time prior

to the filing of the late registration.

Registration information filed with the DHCR pursuant to this Part shall not be subject to the Freedom of Information Law, provided that such information relative to a tenant, owner, lessor or subtenant shall be made available to such party or his or her authorized representative.