Memo on Rental Registry Law
memo
1 page
From the meeting:
Board of Trustees Work Session — 2025-09-17
Agenda item: Review of Proposed Legislation to Create a Rental Unit Registry.
Memo, 1 page. Attached to agenda item: “Review of Proposed Legislation to Create a Rental Unit Registry.”
Retrieved 2026-04-15 from the village's meeting portal.
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Also attached to this agenda item:
LOCAL LAW - RENTAL REGISTRY DRAFT - 9-15-2025
Extracted text
To:
From:
Date:
September 12, 2025
Re:
Rental Registry Law
In 2020, the Village Board of Trustees established the Housing Task Force in response to the housing
needs assessment that was conducted by Westchester County. The Housing Task Force met over the
next 18 months and published a report to the Village Board in November 2021.
One of the recommendations from the Housing Task Force report was to establish a rental registry
that would account for all rental units in the Village. Currently, the Village does not have data on the
number of rental units in existence. Accounting for the number of rental units in the Village is
important as these units have the “potential to impact upon the health, safety, general welfare and
quality of life” of Village residents (quoted from § 186-3 of the proposed law).
Ensuring that these units have proper ingress and egress, working smoke and carbon monoxide
detectors and other minimum standards under state law will protect the occupants of these rental units.
While the Village is legally required to inspect multi-family buildings (defined as three or more units)
on regular intervals, there is no such requirement for two-unit buildings or other rental properties.
The Village would be in good company with the creation of a rental registry. The Town of Cortlandt
has required rental properties with three or more units to register since 2010, and the Village of
Ossining adopted a rental registry law in 2024. Other Westchester County municipalities that have
rental registry laws include Bedford, Mount Kisco, Peekskill, Port Chester, and Tuckahoe.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you.
Mayor
Brian Pugh
Trustees
Nora Moriarty Nicholson
Cara Politi
Len Simon
Maria F. Slippen
Village Manager
Bryan T. Healy
Village Treasurer
Genette Toone
Village Clerk
Pauline DiSanto
Village of Croton-on-Hudson New York
Stanley H. Kellerhouse Municipal Building
One Van Wyck Street
Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520-2501
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