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Hotel Licensing – Comment Period Extended to April 30, 2025

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Rule status: Adopted

Agency: DCWP

Effective date: May 3, 2025

Proposed Rule Full Text
DCWP-NOH-Hotel-Licensing.pdf

Adopted Rule Full Text
DCWP-NOA-Hotel-Licensing-Rules.pdf

Adopted rule summary:

Notice of Adoption to add rules implementing Local Law 104 of 2024, which requires that hotel operators obtain a license to operate a hotel in the City of New York.

Comments are now closed.

Online comments: 3

  • Laura Lee Blake

    Please see the attached letter for the comments of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association (“AAHOA”).

    Comment attachment
    2025.02.02-AAHOA-Comment-Letter-to-NYC-Local-Law-104.pdf
    Comment added February 2, 2025 5:01pm

  • Sarah Bratko

    Please find attached AHLA’s comments on the proposed rules governing the Safe Hotel Act.

    Comment attachment
    AHLA-Regulatory-Comments.pdf
    Comment added February 3, 2025 10:26am

  • Welson Chang

    Looking at Local Law 104 of 2024, aka the “Safe Hotels Act”, there is a section that states the following:
    § 20-565.1 Hotel license issuance and renewal; application; fee.
    a. It shall be unlawful to operate a hotel without a license. Where no license has been obtained, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that an owner of a hotel is the operator of such hotel.
    b. A license issued pursuant to this subchapter shall be valid for a term of two years. The fee for such license shall be $350.

    Shouldn’t the $350 application fee be reflected in the proposed rules under the “§ 2-481 License application requirements” (a) A hotel license expires on September 30th of even numbered years.?

    Revise to show the following:
    “§ 2-481 License application requirements” (a) A hotel license expires on September 30th of even numbered years. The fee for such license is $350.”

    Comment added April 30, 2025 1:20pm